Santo Domingo.- 52% of the students who were evaluated in the third call of the 2024 National Tests, at the secondary level, failed the exam.
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That is, of the 6,596 students who were tested only 3,167 approved, for a 48% promotion, as reported this Friday by the Ministry of Education.
Students
The director of Evaluation of Educational Quality of Minerd, Yanile Valenzuela Calderón, reported that 11,283 students were summoned for testing. Of them, 8,648 They are in the Academic modality, 542 in Arts and 2,093 in Professional Technician.
¿What are National Tests?
The National Tests evaluate the learning achievements obtained by students at the end of the Basic and Intermediate levels.
Their results have consequences for the promotion and certification of the student. There are three calls so that no student is left without taking them.
The grade that the student obtains at the educational center represents the 70% and that of the national test 30% of the final grade.
Average
Valenzuela Calderón explained that the average score, on a scale of zero to 100 points per subject, in the Academic modality, was 55.79 in Spanish Language; 56.71 in Mathematics; 56.55 in Social Sciences and 56.18 in Natural Sciences.
The average score obtained by students taking the Spanish Language Arts modality was 55.77, in Mathematics 58.71, in Social Sciences 56.34 and in Natural Sciences 58.68.
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Students taking the Professional Technical modality obtained an average score of 61.27 in Spanish Language; 60.68 in Mathematics; 61.33 in Social Sciences and 60.29 in Natural Sciences.
In General Secondary Education for Adults, 2,200 were evaluated, of which 1,613 passed for a 73.32% promotion. The average score obtained in Spanish Language was 17.77, in Mathematics 17.62, in Social Sciences 17.96 and in Natural Sciences 17.25.
