Düsseldorf.
The short-term postponement of the Abi exams to Friday due to a download glitch leads to plenty of frustration from schools and students.
Due to a massive technical disruption, the high school exams planned for this Wednesday at the central high school in North Rhine-Westphalia have been postponed at short notice. On Friday, the exams are to be made up for in the subjects biology, chemistry, physics and computer science, among other things, the NRW school minister announced on Tuesday evening. This triggers frustration and criticism for several reasons.
For this Wednesday, NRW School Minister Dorothee Feller (CDU) has invited to a press conference at short notice. Many questions arise, not only about the cause of the technical fault. On Tuesday evening she explained, “The disruption and short-term postponement of the Abitur exams is extremely annoying. The high school graduates have prepared intensively for their exams. It is all the more annoying that a problem with the download meant that the schools did not receive the tasks on time.”
Download glitch in Abi exams: Anger about transfer to Friday
Only a few hours before the start of the exam, the ministry announced the breakdown late on Tuesday evening and announced that the exams for the relevant Abi subjects had to be postponed to this Friday. The day itself triggers criticism, users write on the ministry’s Facebook page, because this Friday the railway union EVG has again called for a warning strike in the wage dispute with Deutsche Bahn and high school graduates who are dependent on the railway are threatened with difficulties to reach your schools in a timely manner.
Users on Facebook also consider it problematic that Muslims are celebrating their sugar festival this Friday – the celebratory end of the fasting month of Ramadan. According to a statement by Facebook users on this day, which should actually have been free of exams, for religious reasons.
NRW school ministry had no “Plan B”
A lot of trouble is also caused by the fact that the server problems mentioned when downloading the Abitur exams obviously caught the NRW Ministry of Education unprepared: Apparently there was no “Plan B” to do the Abitur exam topics in a different way on the day before the to transmit planned examinations to the schools.
On Tuesday evening, the ministry had only announced that “the technical fault (…) could not be remedied in time during the course of today (…)” and that the exam date in the subjects mentioned “had to be postponed.” Criticize on Facebook Users, “You always have to expect server problems”. And a user asks: “When were the first IT test runs and what were the results?” – possibly too late?
“The Ministry owes a detailed statement,” demands the user. And she expects “an official apology” from the school minister.
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