Exam

The queen bee insemination course ends with an examination. After completing the course and passing the exam, the trainee receives a certificate of completion of the training course and a certificate confirming qualifications in the profession of a queen bee inseminator. A graduate of the course may take the exam the following year.

The exam lasts 2 days. On the first day, students take the written, oral and practical parts. On the second day (after 24h), the condition and effectiveness of insemination of the queen bee is checked.

The examination confirming qualifications in the field of artificial insemination of bee queens consists of 3 parts:

1. THE WRITTEN PART – a test

2. THE ORAL PART – oral answers

3. THE PRACTICAL PART – a practical task

Ad. 1. The written part of the exam lasts 60 minutes. It is carried out in the form of a test consisting of 12 tasks. Ten are closed-ended questions with four answers to choose from, only one of which is correct. Two are open-ended descriptive tasks. It is carried out with the use of sheets and answer cards.

Ad. 2. The oral part of the exam lasts 20 minutes. The examination questions are printed on separate sheets. The test taker draws a set consisting of 2 questions from the pool of 15 sets. The test taker gets acquainted with the content of the randomly selected questions and prepares to answer the questions in no more than 5 minutes.

Ad. 3. The condition for taking the practical part of the exam is to obtain a positive result in the theoretical part. The practical part of the exam lasts 120 minutes. The examinee performs the artificial insemination of five queen bees. The effectiveness of the artificial insemination procedure and the correct procedure are assessed.