Düsseldorf.
The Abitur exams have started, one day late after the download glitch. The Ministry of Education names possible reasons for the problems.
Die Baccalaureate exams in North Rhine-Westphalia are one day late started Thursday morning. All schools downloaded the exam tasks from a server on Wednesday, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Education when asked by dpa. “We have no problem ads.” The Abitur exams in art, music, geography, education, history, social sciences, philosophy, psychology, law, sociology, economics, religion and physical education began at 9 a.m. in the morning.
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Actually, the Abitur 2023 in NRW should have started on Wednesday with exams in several scientific and technical subjects. After massive technical problems, the Ministry of Education had the exams postponed nationwide to Friday at short notice. Most schools were unable to download the tasks for the Central Abitur from the server. The Ministry pointed out that all schools would now have to download the exam tasks for Friday from Thursday noon – even the schools that managed to download them on Tuesday despite the technical problems.
The problems were possibly related to the fact that for the download of the tasks a Two-Factor Authentication was necessary by the schools, the ministry announced on Wednesday evening. IT security should be increased with the procedure that customers are also familiar with, for example, from banking transactions. The additional security level has now been deactivated again. The schools could download the tasks for the next Abitur exams again using the technology used in previous years.
According to the ministry, the next regular Abitur exam day is this Monday. The tasks should be downloaded on Friday. (dpa)
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