The Council of Ministers approved this Friday a decree-law that preserves the exceptional rules for conducting state examinations that were in force in the last school years, until the implementation of the new model for completing secondary education.
“A Decree-Law was approved establishing for the 2022-2023 academic year exceptional and temporary measures for certification, approval of disciplines, completion of scientific and humanitarian courses of secondary education and access to higher education, while maintaining in force the conditions applied to secondary education in 2020, 2021 and 2022 years,” the Council of Ministers said in a statement.
Thus, secondary education examinations are once again used only for the purposes of access to higher education and to improve internal classification in order to provide predictability regarding completion of secondary education and access to higher education.
In February, the government announced a new completion model for secondary education, but the changes will not start to be felt until next year.
Under the new rules, somewhat similar to those in place before the covid-19 pandemic, the national completion of secondary education examinations are retained but with a lower weight in the final classification of 25% and in a three-examination model, at where Portuguese is compulsory and the other two exams are chosen by the students.
From 2023 to 2024, 10th graders will already be subject to the new rules, but 11th graders must again take advantage of the exemptions introduced for the first time in 2020.
Only those entering the next school year in year 10 begin to fully apply the new model, which means that when calculating their final secondary education, the different subjects they attended will have different weights depending on whether they are whether they are disciplines. of three, two or just one year in the course of students.
Three-year subjects such as Portuguese or Mathematics will carry a higher weight in the final average than one-year or two-year subjects.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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