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14 out of 16 federal states are apparently making the examination conditions for pupils easier again for the upcoming final examinations at secondary schools , junior high schools, comprehensive schools and vocational schools as well as grammar schools . This was reported by the editorial network Germany (RND), citing a survey of all ministries of education and state governments. Only Rhineland-Palatinate waives the repeated use of special regulations because of the corona pandemic. Hesse has not yet decided, they say.
Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein have decided to allow 30 minutes more time for written exams, reports the RND. As in previous years, Bavaria restricts the content of the written exams, but does not grant any additional time. In North Rhine-Westphalia, only the mathematics exams would be adjusted by an extended selection of tasks and an additional time of 30 minutes.
When asked by the RND, Lower Saxony also announced that the state wanted to use the leeway agreed by the Conference of Ministers of Education and was still working on the details. Baden-Württemberg, Saxony, Hamburg, Saarland and Thuringia wanted to do the tests again with similar simplifications as in 2021 and 2022. In the Hessian Ministry of Education, on the other hand, there is still no final decision as to whether the exams should also be adjusted this year.
No relief in Rhineland-Palatinate
According to the RND, Rhineland-Palatinate has already decided to take the exams as before the pandemic: "This year's high school graduates were able to be taught as much as possible in person during the qualification phase for the Abitur , " says the Ministry of Education. "For these reasons, we have decided not to make the Abitur exam any easier this school year."
According to a decision by the Conference of Ministers of Education, the state governments have the opportunity this year for the last time to ease the scope and duration of examinations in order to compensate for the loss of lessons during the corona pandemic. The federal states had the option of offering a larger selection of examination tasks, narrowing down examination topics in advance or giving up to 30 minutes additional examination time. It is up to the federal states to decide whether and which of the options to use.