The head of Zermatt evaluates this year, as far as entrance exams are concerned, mostly positively. At least in the uniform part of the exams, which is compiled by the Center for Finding Results. And, as he revealed at the Epicenter, he does not plan any further changes and news in the coming years.
Easier tests, more success
„In the case of mathematics, there was a relatively significant improvement of about 10%, I wouldn’t even attribute it to the students improving, but rather, after many years, we made slightly easier tests so that they corresponded in difficulty to how the standard Czech language exam comes out. And in the case of the Czech language, the tests were comparably successful as in previous years, that is, the average success rate of all students in the ninth grade exams was around 50%,” said Miroslav Krejčí.
Simple math tests were also on the plenum of various social networks. They were discussed not only by students, but also by parents. But if anyone expected that the simplification of math tests would become a kind of folklore, they are wrong.
It won’t get any easier, and neither will more time
„We certainly don’t want to simplify even more. In previous years, the average success rate was around 40%, this year it was almost 50%. I would like us to be somewhere in between in the coming years,” added the head of the Center for Finding Education Results, adding that there probably won’t be more time to solve tasks and there will probably be no shortage of examples either.
“It is not a matter of general discussion. So, for now, this change is definitely not coming for next year. And the demand that something should change in this direction is not raised or discussed in the professional public,” Krejčí pointed out.
More applications?
However, according to Krejčí, what could change one day is how many applications students will be able to submit. Although this change is not likely in the next year, some light at the end of the tunnel can already be seen.
“Schools are generally not against increasing the number of applications, but they are terribly bothered by the fact that each application is the start of an administrativeand. And they have a lot of bureaucracy with it, so we are discussing how to find mechanisms so that pupils can submit more applications than three and at the same time so that it does not add to the administrative burden for the schools,” concluded the head of Cermat.
