Due to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 144,000 Ukrainian children enrolled in Polish schools for the 2022/2023 school year. Ukrainian schoolchildren, akin to Polish students, have the right to take the eighth grade exam and the matriculation exam, enabling further free education. Faced with the significant influx of school-age refugee children into the examination system, we examined Polish national exam sheets to assess changes in the existence and content of elements related to Ukraine and Russia. Our analysis includes a review of formal procedures related to the examination system, along with a comparative analysis of examination sheets from selected subjects used in 2021 and 2023. We also conducted interviews with coordinators at the Central Examination Board. Our findings indicate that some affirmative actions were taken. Additionally, most analysed sheets demonstrated changes in the portrayal of Russia and Ukraine towards an absence of images with positive or neutral connotations with Russia.