Abstract This article focuses on the critical thinking of students in vocational training in high school. The author analyzes one of the rapidly developing areas of reform of the system of modern higher education as a focus on the development of critical thinking of the person, which implies the existence of skills of reflection about their own mental activity, the ability to work with concepts, judgments, conclusions, issues, and development of analytical, forecasting activities problematic vision, the search for alternative and innovative forms, means and methods for facilitating management to meet the challenges.

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