Registration for National Tests and Secondary Examinations for Access to Higher Education starts this Tuesday and closes on April 17 through the Electronic Enrollment Platform for Evidence and Examinations (PIEPE).
Enrollment is through a platform available at https://jnepiepe.dge.mec.pt and in the case of secondary school students these are tests required to access higher education which can also be used to improve grades. in previous exams or to increase internal grades (grades given by school teachers for work done during the year).
This year, the rules for access to higher education remain unchanged, and the exceptional and temporary measures determined during the pandemic remain in force.
On Monday, a diploma was published that establishes measures for the current year of certification, approval of disciplines, passing scientific and humanitarian courses in the system of secondary education and admission to higher educational institutions, as well as the procedure approving the Regulations on conducting external certification tests and offsets for the equivalence of attendance at basic and secondary education .
The retention of the temporary rules that came into effect during the covid-19 pandemic has already been announced by Education Ministers Joao Costa and Higher Education Minister Elvira Fortunato, who justified the decision as necessary to ensure predictability for students graduating from high school.
The secondary school assessment and completion model, as well as access to higher education, were subject to temporary measures in 2020 following the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing population lockdowns and distance learning exacerbating inequalities in access to education. .
The new rules for assessment and access to higher education will come into effect in stages and will not apply to students who are now 12 years old.
The new model applies in full to students entering 10th grade in September. For them, different disciplines will have different weights on average depending on whether they are three-year, two-year or just one-year disciplines.
Among the innovations are also the fact that all students must pass three national exams, Portuguese is compulsory and the other two are chosen by the students, and that national exams now have a minimum weight of 45% for admission to higher education.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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