This Saturday, July 16 and Sunday, July 17, the National tests in the Youth Subsystem and Adultsaccording to what is established in the school calendar Ministry of Education.
On July 23 and 24 they will continue with the process at the national level, which will conclude the first call for evaluations.
in basic of Adults for Spanish, 14,809 students were called for the Mathematics, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences and Spanish Language tests.
Already the students of the last grade of high school took the evaluations from July 12 to 15 in educational centers throughout the country, with massive participation.
This test system, which is applied at the end of the secondary level in all its modalities and the middle and basic level of education for young people and adults, has a value of 30% of the student’s final grade for promotion, 70 Remaining % is the average grade sent by the educational center.
The National tests they are established in the General Education Law No. 66-97 and are currently regulated by Ordinance 1-2016.
According to the MINERD, these exams fulfill a double function, the first being objective and automated certification, and second, reporting on student performance as an indicator of the quality of the education system.
Its application was suspended in the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years due to the Covid 19 pandemic, which forced the closure of educational centers and the implementation of the distance education modality. Now in the year 2022, the situation of the pandemic has improved and when returning to face-to-face classes, the regulations are resumed.