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Exams began this morning and will continue on the 6th and 7th, with grades to be published on the 14th of June.
This morning, the León and Ponferrada campuses hosted the start of the EBAU (University Access Baccalaureate Assessment) tests, which are taking place normally, with some nerves just minutes before the start of the first test of the morning.
A total of 1,980 students from León (1,476) and Ponferrada (504) registered, coming from a total of 64 Secondary Education and Vocational Training centres, who attended the different centres of the León and Ponferrada campuses and the School of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering early in the morning.
Esther Seijas, director of the ULE Access Area and coordinator of the EBAU in Castilla y León, has highlighted that the day is going “normally and the nerves are understandable in some students, especially those who are very well prepared because they want a grade for very competitive degrees. We have tried to calm them down and soothe them and at the end of the first test they have recognised that the exam was easier than any other in the Baccalaureate”.
Seijas has described this EBAU as a “transition”, although after 19 years in charge of the coordination of these tests at the ULE he recognises that there are always changes, but this year there are great novelties “such as the choice between History and Philosophy, the incorporation of new subjects such as Musical Analysis or Artistic Drawing within the modality subjects (Mathematics II, Latin II and Applied Mathematics) where the student can take them at the same time and take the exam in two”. In addition to these novelties, there are new subjects such as Technology and subjects linked to the Baccalaureate of Arts such as painting, history of music and dance, choir and vocal technique, design or technical drawing.
MORE THAN 80 APPLICATIONS FROM STUDENTS WITH EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT NEEDS
Regarding students with Specific Needs for educational support, Seijas explained that for this call “83 applications were received and more than half have enrolled and have been distributed in three classrooms where they have support staff for the development of the test”. These students have needs due to hearing, visual, psychomotor disabilities, diabetics or people with autism spectrum, “a great variety that is increasingly increasing because it is better diagnosed and it should also be noted that the results of these students are really good”, said Esther Seijas.
In the first test of the morning in Language and Literature, students had to choose, in the text commentary exercise, between an editorial and an opinion article from El País. The first was 'Combating ageism' about discrimination against older people due to age reasons and the psychosocial consequences it generates in these citizens. The second was written by Víctor Lapuente and titled 'Today's youth', which reflects on the vision of older people on today's youth and the problems they face.
“The first exam is important for them to feel confident, relaxed and to be sure that it will be a good EBAU emotionally,” acknowledged Esther Seijas, who was pleased that the sensations had been positive. “They have come out very happy from the first exam, they have had three classic options in these tests, poetry, novel and theatre and our EBAU students are very faithful to poetry. They have literally told me that we have behaved, and that is appreciated.”
These options were Poetry at the beginning of the century: Modernism and the Generation of '98. Rubén Darío and Antonio Machado; The novel from 1939 to 1975. Camilo José Cela and Miguel Delibes. And Theatre from the seventies to the present. José Luis Alonso de Santos. Then, at 11:30 a.m. they took the History of Spain and History of Philosophy exams. The first included several optional questions, among which the most notable were the Cortes of Cádiz and the Constitution of 1812, the disentailments of Mendizabal and Madoz, the Enlightenment of Spain, the discovery of America and the organization of the Spanish colonial empire, the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the international context of the Civil War, or the political organization of the Franco State. In Philosophy, students had to choose four of the eight questions referring to Plato, Descartes, Aristotle, Marx, a comparison of Plato with another author of philosophical current and two questions on specific terms of philosophy.
220 teachers are taking part in the tests and the total number of people from the University of León who are part of the organisation is around 300. This afternoon, the students will take the English, French and German language tests and tomorrow they will take the specific tests “which, as they say, are the ones that count twice as much for them as they are used for the general phase and for raising their grades”, concluded Esther Seijas. The grades will be published on 14 June at 10:00 am, and students will be able to find out their score through the website www.unileon.es . The deadline for requesting a review of exams will be from 17 to 19 June, and the result will be announced on 25 June.