“The entire school family is rooting for it”: Young people started their Abitur exams under pandemic conditions
Created: 04/29/2022, 08:00
By: Magdalena Hoecherl
For the students, the Abitur exams have started under Corona conditions.
There is no obligation to test or wear a mask.
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Despite Corona, 413 students from the Freising district got off to a good start in the hot phase of the Abitur exams.
Because of the pandemic, the conditions have been changed.
District of Freising
- It's the next round: On Wednesday, around 35,000 Bavarian schoolchildren started their Abitur exams with the subject German, including 413 at the five high schools in the district of Freising.
This Friday, things will get serious for her for the second time: the exam in the second written subject is coming up.
Although the corona pandemic has dominated the entire upper school, there is now confidence, emphasizes Claudia Theumer, head of the Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch-Gymnasium in Moosburg.
"In the previous school year, when the high school graduates were in the eleventh grade, there was this longer lockdown from January to March," Theumer recalls.
"After that, however, we were able to bring everyone back to school because we were able to keep the required minimum distance." The time spent in distance learning was comparatively short.
In the current school year, the Moosburgers were very lucky: "In the twelfth grade there was not a single class quarantine," says Theumer happily.
"Only individual students had to be quarantined in the meantime."
Nobody took the test opportunity - for fear of a positive result
But even they could have continued to be trained without any problems: “Last year we procured the appropriate equipment so that the students could participate from home via stream via a specially set up video server.” All in all, the young people went into high school well prepared .
Claudia Theumer, Head of the Moosburg High School, is confident about the Abitur exams.
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This is only limited under the sign of the pandemic: The written exams are written in the sports hall, which has a ventilation system.
The distance between the individual workstations is more than two meters.
As in most other areas, the mask requirement no longer applies.
The Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch-Gymnasium offers voluntary test options.
On the day before the German exam, however, nobody accepted that.
Not surprising: Anyone who tests positive cannot write the exam.
"Basically, final exams are always exempt from the test obligation, even in previous years," says Theumer.
High school graduates have half an hour more time for the exams
The Ministry of Culture has also adjusted the conditions due to the pandemic: Curriculum and material were cut in advance.
In addition, the high school graduates now have 30 minutes longer than usual for each written test.
(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)
After the second written subject this Friday, next Tuesday, May 3rd, everyone in Bavaria will be taking their maths Abitur.
The written French exam will take place on Thursday, May 5th.
After a break of a week, the two weeks of the colloquium will start on Monday, May 16th.
After the two oral exams, the long-awaited announcement of grades will take place on Friday, May 27th.
Until then, the atmosphere in the whole school is special.
"During the exam period, not only are the high school graduates excited and excited, but also us teachers - even if we do it every year," admits headmistress Theumer.
After all, the Abitur is the most important date of the year: “It is the goal that we have been working towards with the students for eight years.
The whole school family is rooting for it.”
Graduation in numbers
Camerloher-Gymnasium Freising: 96 high school graduates;
Josef-Hofmiller-Gymnasium Freising: 86;
Dom-Gymnasium Freising: 80;
Oskar-Maria-Graf-Gymnasium Neufahrn: 84;
Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch-Gymnasium: 67.
