The National Education Agency announced on Tuesday that it had received reports of technical glitches in the first foreign language (English) test.
“This is a technical error by the administrator of the electronic testing system, but it did not prevent the candidates from completing the task.
Some students who logged in to the testing system saw 2 tasks on the screen. The performers were immediately informed that the candidates would complete any one of the given tasks. This will be taken into account when evaluating the assignments completed by candidates. If the candidates completed both tasks, a better result will be counted,” the agency announces.
On the eve of the inspection, the agency was forced to deny that the English language test tasks had been changed.
“The published information is incorrect and misleading.
The structure of foreign language intermediate examinations is published in the description of the tasks of the State Matriculation Examinations in Languages, which was approved in 2023. in October, and the draft description was published as early as 2023. in February
The description is published here: https://www.nsa.smm.lt/…/2024-2025-m-pasiekimu…/.
According to this description, the listening part contains four audio texts of different genres and types, one of which may be audiovisual.
Samples of the first foreign language (English, French, German) midterm test tasks (reading part, listening part with audiovisual example) will be published in 2023. in June.
Nothing – neither in the sample tasks nor in the approved description – was strange,” the agency wrote on its Facebook account on Monday.
On Monday evening, information appeared on the Facebook social network that the number and type of future tasks were being changed, supposedly a day before the mid-term English test.
The Minister of Education, Science and Sports Gintautas Jakštas explained about this in the Seimas on Tuesday.
This is not the first scandal that has accompanied this year’s interim inspections. In the past, there have been waves of dissatisfaction with the difficult tasks of physics and mathematics tests.
G. Jakštas says that the wisest solution is to allow the current eleventh graders to retake the mid-term examinations next year, due to the uproar over math and physics tasks.
“The wisest decision is that those who want to raise their score take it one more time, and the best result they achieve is counted in the matriculation exam. The discussion is going on, how the second shot should be, the option is being considered, so that the current eleventh and future twelfth graders, together with next year’s eleventh graders, could take part, if they wish,” said G. Jakštas in the Seimas on Tuesday.
As the Ministry is currently considering proposals regarding the procedure for retaking the midterm examination, one of the options is discussing the possibility of retaking the midterm examination at the same time as the matriculation exam, that is, not with the future eleventh graders in the spring of the year, but during the matriculation exam session of high school graduates held later in the summer.
Eleventh graders take mid-term exams from this year, they will form part of the matriculation exam assessment.
40% is possible for most midterms. final exam assessment – this is enough to pass the exam. A student who has scored at least 35 points will come to the state exam knowing that the exam has already been passed, no matter how many points he gets.
For this year’s 3rd grade high school students, it will be possible to retake the intermediate examinations, except for the Lithuanian language and literature speaking part, and choose a better assessment.
Following a public outcry over physics and mathematics B-level midterms, the Minister of Education, Science and Sports has set up commissions to assess the assignments and make suggestions for their assessment.
The National Education Agency (NŠA) published the first results of the Intermediate 11th examinations on Tuesday, the overall average of the mathematics A-level examination does not exceed half of the maximum possible marks.
According to the NŠA, 13,332 11th graders participated in the mathematics (advanced course) test, and the total average of points scored is 8.5 out of 20 possible. However, it is noted that the candidates collected an average higher percentage of points compared to the percentage of points collected during the state matriculation exam in mathematics last year.
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2024-04-06 20:18:35