About 27 thousand students have already registered for the second stage of national exams

Around 27,000 students have already registered for the second stage of the national exams, the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation announced on Monday, ensuring that the platform on which registration takes place is operating without restrictions.

“At the moment, about 27 thousand registrations have been registered for the second stage of national exams,” the guardianship authority reported in response to the Lusa agency at around 19:30.

The registration deadline for the second stage of the national secondary education exams, which starts on Thursday, is from Monday to Tuesday, but some parents have reported problems with the online registration platform to Lusa.

When asked about possible restrictions, the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation assured that the platform “is working normally” and ruled out the need for any changes to the registration deadlines.

Registration opened this Monday, the same day that the results of the first stage of the national secondary education examinations were published.

This year, exams were held in 663 schools across the country and in schools abroad with the Portuguese curriculum, with 291,793 people registered and 236,060 tests administered in the first phase of the national exams.

Year 12 students still benefited from the exceptional rules put in place following the Covid-19 pandemic, but Year 11 students now had to take the required tests to pass and complete their subjects.

According to data from the National Examinations Jury (JNE), published by the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation, grades increased in 13 of the 25 subjects examined, and only in one did the average score fall: biology and geology (9.9 points), the most popular test.

Compared to last year, the average score also decreased in Portuguese (from 12.5 to 11.1 points), but students’ results improved in Physics and Chemistry (11.6 points) and Mathematics A (12.2 points).