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Abitur exam 2021 in Saxony: More comparability between the federal states
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The federal states are apparently planning to reduce the number of advanced courses before the Abitur.
As the information service "Table.Media" reports, in future schoolchildren will only be able to choose two to three subjects at an "increased level of difficulty" instead of the previous two to four.
This emerges from a draft by the school committee of the Conference of Ministers of Education (KMK).
The number of mandatory six-monthly courses should also be increased to a uniform 40.
According to the information service, the Ministers of Education want to discuss the paper at their next meeting in March and adopt it in the summer at the latest.
From 2025, it should apply nationwide to all Abitur cohorts.
When asked, a KMK spokesman only confirmed that the "Agreement on the design of the upper secondary school level and the Abitur examination" made by the federal states in 1972 and revised several times is currently being revised again by the Conference of Ministers of Education.
A consultation is planned for the next KMK meeting on March 16th.
According to the “Table.Media” report, at least one advanced course in German, mathematics, a foreign language or natural sciences should be taken.
In order to make it easier to compare the Abitur in Germany, uniform specifications for the number of exams and a nationwide increase in the number of mandatory six-month courses are planned.
The information service writes that the changes will further restrict the individual school's scope for design in the upper school and make it more difficult to focus on individual subjects.
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As early as 2020, the KMK had agreed in a "historic" agreement to create more comparability in school degrees and examinations.
Among other things, the ministers announced that by 2023 they would set guidelines for the number of subjects in the upper secondary school.
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