Abi-Patzer angry parents and students.

The math breaks down at the Central Hessian has baccalaureate students and parents when a wave of indignation and protest triggered. Now it is argued whether the failed test should be replaced.

 

Frankfurt - There is confusion among the 15,000 affected students and their families: During the National Parents' students prefer not to re-Math expect to work, demanded the country's student the opportunity to voluntary investigations.

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It was not enough, the faulty tasks formulated a second possible solution to accept, said school spokeswoman Catherine country horn in Kassel. Thus, some students at the ambiguous tasks bitten. A nation-wide comparability was no longer present. It is also legal steps against the scoring of the exam review. Horn also called for an end to the central Baccalaureate.

On Friday, in the centrally allocated Math work for some 15,000 Hessian Abiturienten several errors were discovered. The tasks have been prepared by a specialist panel. According to the Ministry reviewed another group the tasks again. The error was only discovered on Friday morning was when the teacher in the schools the first tasks were to face.

Students were informed too late

Errors were found in both the tests for the majors as well as those for the basic courses. The Ministry had tried during the exams, the schools alert. This statement has not folded horn. Partial had no or only very slightly before the end of exams on the wrong mission has been informed.

The opposition parties responded with sharp criticism of the school. Culture Minister Dorothea Henzler (FDP) renewed on Saturday in the northern Hessian Hofgeismar its promise that no student will arise a disadvantage. The Sunday newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine, "said the politician, that an immediate repetition of the tests come into question. Other possibilities were the acceptance of alternative solutions or to remove the task from the scoring.

Already last year, test margins in several states to provide excitement. For example, in North Rhine-Westphalia High School Graduates at the "octahedron of horrors" broke down, a second chance. In Berlin, 28,000 tenth graders had a math test once again write, because some of the tasks already knew. And in Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Culture said a key test for comparison 34,000 eight graders from - because the task of a teacher's students had betrayed.

Teachers always came back with new info

The chairman of the National Parents' Association, Kerstin Geis, pointed to the psychological consequences for the students to the vortex around the faulty tasks upon the school a high degree of uncertainty with which they are added to the pressure and the tension needed to be done. Against this background, they do not disadvantage.

For the Patzer representing the parents showed little sympathy: "We must separate from the test were expected to do their homework, how to get the students also expected: clean, careful, correct." After that, the performance of students assessed and graded.

On the Internet discussing the students themselves heavily on the process. In Network "School" graduates wrote that by the errors in the task would have lost much time. Again and again were their teachers with new information on the corrections have come to them. Another wrote that he had after 20 minutes with a new task had to begin, because he only noticed a mistake. Also, the demand for a repetition of the tests was to read.