21.06.2025 10:20
More than 2.5 million candidates dreaming of university will take the Higher Education Institutions Exam today and tomorrow. Candidates were admitted to the exam halls with their exam entrance documents and photo ID cards. The exam, which started at 10:15, will give candidates 165 minutes to complete it. The exam results will be announced on July 28.
The first session of the 2025-YKS, the Basic Proficiency Test (TYT), will be held today, while the Field Proficiency Tests (AYT) and the Foreign Language Test (YDT) will take place on Sunday. AYT will be conducted in the morning, and YDT will be held in the afternoon session.
THE FIRST SESSION HAS STARTED
The first session of YKS, the TYT, started today at 10:15 AM, and candidates will be given 165 minutes. In the TYT, there will be 40 questions in the Turkish test, 5 questions from history, 5 from geography, 5 from philosophy, and 5 from religious culture and ethics or additional philosophy questions in the social sciences test, totaling 20 questions. The basic mathematics test will have 40 questions, and the science test will include 20 questions with 7 from physics, 7 from chemistry, and 6 from biology.
THE SECOND SESSION IS TOMORROW
The second session, AYT, will start on Sunday at 10:15 AM and will last for 180 minutes. The "Turkish Language and Literature - Social Sciences-1" test will consist of 40 questions. In this test, candidates will answer 24 questions from Turkish language and literature, 10 from history-1, and 6 from geography-1.
The AYT's "Social Sciences-2" test will consist of 40 questions, the mathematics test will have 40 questions, and the science test will also consist of 40 questions. In the social sciences test, there will be 11 questions from history-2, 11 from geography-2, 12 from the philosophy group, and 6 questions from religious culture and ethics or additional philosophy questions. The distribution in the science test will be 14 questions from physics, 13 from chemistry, and 13 from biology.
The third and final session, the Foreign Language Test (YDT), will also start on Sunday at 3:45 PM, and candidates will be given 120 minutes. The exam will be conducted in German, Arabic, French, English, and Russian, with a total of 80 questions.
RESULTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON JULY 28
Candidates must be present in the exam buildings at least one hour and fifteen minutes before the exam time. Candidates will not be admitted to the exam buildings after 10:00 AM for the morning sessions and after 3:30 PM for the afternoon sessions.
According to the ÖSYM calendar, YKS results will be announced on July 28, 2025.
Candidates can obtain the exam entrance document showing the location of their exam from ÖSYM's website "https://ais.osym.gov.tr" using their T.C. identification number and candidate password.
The document will include the center, building, and room information where the candidate will take the exam, along with their photo.