Seville, (EFE).- More than 20,000 people have already supported a petition created this Wednesday to demand that the mathematics exam II of the Baccalaureate Assessment Test for University Access (PEvAU) in Andalusia be challenged, among the that are both students and teachers, as well as other people who, in a private capacity, have shown their support for the affected students.
The request for support is channeled through the web change.org. And he cites that it is intended “through the signatures of all Andalusians” to demonstrate that “we do not agree with the mathematics II selectivity exam of June 2022/2023”. Trusting to be able to achieve “the challenge of it” due to “its extreme difficulty.”
They understand that the challenge is necessary “so that an exam does not ruin all the effort spent during our preparation for selectivity.”
Complaints about the difficulty of the test began to be reproduced mid-morning yesterday. Alluding to some affected that the exam contemplated, among other things, issues that have not been studied by them. Or tests that are exclusive to university courses.
Shame and senseless
Among the signatories to the petition, a professor of Algebraic Structures for Computing claims not to understand the reason “for giving kids such a screwed-up exam.”
A woman who identifies herself as a professor at the University of Seville considers that it is “nonsense to examine skills that have not been worked on. that have not been taught. That do not correspond to the level of studies”. And that “they do not serve at all to select the doctors, nurses, engineers who are the future of all of us”. For which she has regretted that she manages it “an absurd and incompetent educational and training system.”
Another teacher, “with more than 30 years of experience,” says he feels “ashamed that these things happen.” And he adds that “exams must be consistent with the agenda and competencies, resolved and reviewed.” But in this type of exam, “an evaluation committee should supervise it, solve it and review it. It is seen that they have not done it and the author has been very wrong ”.
“I would not understand that sanctioning measures are not taken against those responsible for this mess, whether they are politicians, professors or civil servants,” he concludes.
Many more passes than fails
However, the IES Alonso Sánchez de Huelva Mathematics professor, Antonio de los Santos, a specialist in Scientific Mathematics and correction member of the PEvAU Mathematics II, his specialty, has told EFE that he has personally corrected 30 exams. Of which 21 are approved, “with three tens (of note), a 9.75 or two with a 9”, in addition to nine failed “.
He has pointed out that before the test “the criteria are launched, which are public, as well as the objectives and contents”. And he has said that he does not understand “the argument that they are questions from higher courses.”
He referred to the most controversial exercise, “number 4”, and recalled that eight exercises are proposed to the students, of which they have to choose four, so that they could have renounced this one in particular without lowering their grade for it .
He has also pointed out that this exercise has been included in the same examination other years, “but asked in a very specific way, while this year the approach has been changed” although “reasoning the same, the solution could have been reached”.
Little choice of the problem discussed
And he has detailed that of the 30 exams he has corrected, “only one has chosen exercise number 4”. And he has not been able to solve it, but he does not share the argument that “it is an exercise for higher courses.” In addition to the fact that, taking into account the nature of mathematics, “that there are things that have not been given is a subjective opinion.”
In Andalusia there are a total of 49,885 students from Baccalaureate and Higher Level Vocational Training who take the PEvAU exam for this course, 3.7% more than those taken last year.
The maximum grade that can be achieved in this phase is ten points and the score obtained, together with the average grade of the Baccalaureate record, make up the access grade that will be calculated by weighting 40% of the PEvAU grade and 60%. % of the final high school grade. EFE