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Abitur examination (in Baden-Württemberg 2020)
Photo: Felix Kästle / dpa
Many students are very nervous before and during their Abitur exams.
For an advanced English course from Wetter (Ruhr), however, the stress was particularly extreme: The clock in the examination room was still running after winter time, but there was no indication.
Now the high school graduates should be allowed to repeat the final exam.
Last Friday, two basic courses and one advanced course (LK) had written their exams in a gym - a total of 54 high school students.
The two basic courses were expressly advised of the wrongly set clock, the 22 LK students not.
The "Westfalenpost" reported on the incident.
Around 30 minutes before the handover at 2 p.m., the advanced course was advised that the time was running out in half an hour.
This caused irritation in individual students, as the clock in the hall was one hour late - and therefore 90 minutes would have remained.
As a spokeswoman for the authorities announced, the grammar school in the North Rhine-Westphalian Ennepe-Ruhr district is now giving the 22 students concerned, in coordination with the Arnsberg district government, the opportunity to repeat the exam - with new tasks, of course.
"The conditions for high school graduates are already more difficult because of Corona, we don't want to put obstacles in anyone's way," said a spokeswoman for the district government's spokeswoman.
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