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Abolition of normalization of grades and extra time in all tests: the reliefs for the matriculation period

The Minister of Education has announced a series of further adjustments to students following the learning gaps created during the closures and online learning.

Among other things, mother tongue facilitation will be given to all sectors and additional dates for oral exams in English.

The differential weighting formula will be replaced by a control mechanism by locality

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Sonia Gorodisky

Thursday, January 21, 2021, 11:00 p.m.

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In the video: Middle school students return to school (Photo: Niv Aharonson)

Minister of Education Yoav Galant announced this morning (Thursday) the series of facilitations in the matriculation exams in 2001, which were intended to address the gaps that students accumulated due to the prolonged closures and distance learning during the Corona period. The differential (SHKD) on winter matriculation, as published in Walla!

NEWS.

According to the minister, the decision is coordinated with the institutions of higher education.

Among the exemptions significance include the extra time of 25% in all the tests, making time Winter April date to improve score and ease the language if all sectors adulthood winter and summer Tsf"a. However, regarding the exemptions at the time of summer math has not yet decided anything.

Ministry of Education explained Walla NEWS that the ministry still does not know how to estimate the gaps in this profession, so it will wait for the results of the internal exams and will soon decide on the facilitation of the matriculation exam.

More on Walla!

NEWS

Student complaints have been heard, and the Matriculation Committee is expected to recommend revoking the normalization of grades

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Additional facilitation in matriculation

• Abolition of the differential weighting mechanism of scores

• Extra time of 25% in all tests

• The April winter date will also be a date for improving the score

• Additional dates will be given for an oral exam in English

• Facilitation of the mother tongue for all sectors

• Exclusion of format tests and matriculation of 11th-12th grade students in the closure regulations

• Reducing the extent of social involvement

• Return of the compensation mechanism to eligibility for a matriculation certificate

• Also in the next school year, 12th grade students will be tested in 5 external subjects

Matriculation students in Yehud, July 2020 (Photo: Flash 90, Yossi Zeliger)

The external examination committee, headed by former Director General of the Ministry of Education Ronit Tirosh, was established a month ago by the Minister of Education to examine the work processes of the matriculation exams. The final following the use of the Shaked formula.

Yesterday it was unveiled at Walla!

NEWS that the Tirosh committee submitted its conclusions to the Ministry of Education, and that the direction of the committee's recommendation was "to consider students and not continue to use the formula."

Instead of using the formula, the director general of the Ministry of Education, Amit Edri, explained that the ministry has built an internal control mechanism that includes samples of matriculation grades from different schools that will be divided by localities (red, orange and green). Between the schools and the mechanisms will be examined by the ministry, and the principals will sign the exams.

"We believe in the schools," Edri said.

We will provide closer guidance and instruction for the schools in the red localities. "

"There is a global crisis but we will overcome it."

Galant (Photo: Official Website, Oded Karni)

Minister Galant explained the decision to abolish the use of the SHKD formula. He said, "After several months in office, they explained to me that the scoring mechanism that was activated was too high, and asked me to make a negative factor in retrospect and lower the scores.

I of course did not agree to this, but through this matter I realized that we have a problem with the whole apparatus.

Therefore, I appointed Ronit Tirosh to chair the committee, which examined the issue of the formulas of the Shekad, and we decided to cancel this process. "

"I can reassure about 300,000 boys and girls all over the country and tell them that we will help them, and their future is guaranteed just as it was the future of those who preceded them. There is a global crisis but we will overcome it," the education minister added.

Reducing social involvement and excluding examinations in quarantine regulations

In addition to abolishing the normalization of matriculation scores, the facilitation also includes additional dates for oral exams in English, exceeding the format and matriculation exams of 11th-12th grade students in the quarantine regulations, reducing the scope of social involvement from 146 to 90 hours per year.

In addition, the compensation mechanism for eligibility for a matriculation certificate will be restored - also retroactively.

In the adjustment frameworks, also in the next school year, 12th grade students, who are currently in 11th grade, will be examined in five external subjects.

The ministry notes that this is a third round of adjustments, joining those that have already been made before and during the current school year.

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