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Event organiser
Comes up with events and runs them — from a school party to a festival.
Career overview
What a day looks like
An event organiser makes a plan and a budget, makes deals with the venue and suppliers, shares out tasks in the team and solves problems right during the event.
Try it yourself this week
30 minutes
Plan a class event on paper
- Come up with an event: a board game tournament, a clean-up day, a movie night. The budget is zero.
- Write down the goal, date, place and a to-do list: who does what and by when.
- Write down three things that could go wrong and a plan B for each.
- Read the plan out loud or show it to one person. Note what you enjoyed most: coming up with ideas, sharing out tasks or reaching agreements.
What you'll learn about yourself: Whether you like bringing people and tasks together into one whole — and whether you're ready to take responsibility if something falls through.
40 minutes
Come up with a small business and work out if it would pay off
- Choose an idea a school student could do: baking for a school fair, helping people with their phones, taking photos at a graduation party.
- Write down who would buy and why they'd buy from you in particular.
- Make a table: what the money goes on, what the price is, how many sales you'd need to get your costs back. Don't buy anything — this is a calculation on paper.
- Find two similar offers online and compare your idea with them. Write down what was more interesting: coming up with it, doing the numbers or imagining how you'd sell it.
What you'll learn about yourself: Whether turning an idea into a plan with numbers excites you — and whether the chance that buyers say no puts you off.
What you can do next
Next 3 months
Plan an event on paper
Do the task on planning a class event, with a plan B.
In six months
Help with a real event
Offer to help organise a school event and take charge of one specific part.
In a year
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How to get into college
College gets you a profession faster than university. You can apply after grade 9 or after grade 11.
- Colleges accept students both after grade 9 and after grade 11. After grade 9 you study longer — about 3 years 10 months; after grade 11, about 2 years 10 months. The exact length depends on the college and the specialty.
Source: kchk.edu.kz (opens in a new tab) - About 80% of students admitted to colleges in the 2024/25 school year study on a state order, which means in state-funded places (in 2023/24 it was about 70%). But each college and each specialty has its own number of state-funded places.
Source: inbusiness.kz (opens in a new tab) - There are also paid colleges. For example, training as a nurse at ADILMED costs 450,000 ₸ per year. Check the price and conditions on the college's website.
Source: adilmed.kz (opens in a new tab)
UNT: which subjects to take for university
The UNT (Unified National Testing) is Kazakhstan's national university entrance test. You need it to get into university after grade 11.
- The UNT 2026 has three compulsory subjects: History of Kazakhstan, Reading Literacy and Mathematical Literacy. On top of these, you take two profile subjects, chosen to match your specialty.
Source: testcenter.kz (opens in a new tab) - In total, the test has 120 questions (maximum 140 points) and you get 4 hours. The format is the same as in 2025.
Source: testcenter.kz (opens in a new tab) - Profile subjects depend on the group of specialties. For example: information technology — Mathematics and Computer Science; nursing and veterinary medicine — Biology and Chemistry; electrical engineering — Mathematics and Physics; law — World History and Fundamentals of Law. The full list is published by the National Testing Center.
Source: testcenter.kz (opens in a new tab) - For creative specialties (for example, media and design), you take History of Kazakhstan and Reading Literacy through the UNT, and two creative exams at the university itself.
Source: testcenter.kz (opens in a new tab) - Some universities have their own admission rules. Nazarbayev University, for example, requires a UNT score of at least 85, a GPA of 4.0 and English at IELTS 6.0 level.
Source: nu.edu.kz (opens in a new tab)
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