The averages in the national exams dropped in most subjects, in a year in which the degree of difficulty of the tests increased slightly, but only Physics and Chemistry was below 10, with a drop of more than three values.
According to data from the National Examinations Jury, released today by the Ministry of Education, the average grades in the 12th grade exams dropped in almost all subjects, after having risen in the previous year, when exceptional rules were introduced. benefited students due to the covid-19 pandemic.
In the four main subjects, only Portuguese, with 34.318 tests carried out, maintained the average of 12 values registered in the previous year.
Physics and Chemistry, on the other hand, was the one in which students showed more difficulties, compared to the previous year, and the average results worsened by more than three values, going from an average of 13,2 values to 9,8 values. only below 10 values.
With a less accentuated drop in the Biology and Geology test, the most held this year and important for students who want to enter Medicine, the average classification also worsened, settling at 12 values, when the previous year had reached the 14 points.
In the Mathematics A test, another of the most important, the average went from 11,5 in 2020 to 10,6 values.
Among the subjects with a number of students above 2.500, the only rises were in the subjects of Descriptive Geometry A and Mathematics Applied to Social Sciences, where the average classification increased 1,2 points in both.
The highest average among the most popular subjects was registered in English (14,9 points) and among all the tests, Mandarin (initiation) again leads the way with the seven students who took the test achieving an average grade in the exam of 16,7 .XNUMX values.
In a statement also released today, the National Examinations Jury emphasizes that this year students took the final national exams they chose as entrance exams and also to improve the final classification of the subject only for the purposes of access to higher education, thus justifying that almost all tests had an average above 10 points.
However, if last year students benefited from the exceptional rules introduced due to the covid-19 pandemic, and whose main novelty was the existence of a group of optional questions in which the best answer was counted, this year the Assessment Institute Educativa (IAVE) changed the weight of the scale and there were more mandatory answer questions, slightly increasing the degree of difficulty.
This year, the exams were carried out in 647 schools throughout the national territory and in schools abroad with a Portuguese curriculum, with 248.136 enrollments in the first phase of the national exams (9.194 less compared to 2020) and 204.368 tests performed (23.594 less) .
"In the process of classifying the tests, 9.010 secondary school teachers were involved, whose work made it possible to meet the deadlines set for posting the guidelines", adds the statement, noting that around 10 thousand watchful teachers were involved in the totality of the tests. to the school examination secretariats.
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