The national exams for completing secondary education will remain, but with a lower weight in the final classification, of 25%, and in a model of three exams in which Portuguese is mandatory and the other two exams chosen by the students.
The changes were presented this Monday, January 6th, in a press conference, at the Ministry of Education, in Lisbon, by the Ministers of Education João Costa and of Science and Higher Education Elvira Fortunato.
Questioned by journalists, João Costa and Elvira Fortunato refused any divergence between ministries regarding the maintenance or end of national secondary education exams, with the Minister of Education justifying the option for continuity with the need to ensure mechanisms that allow the measurement of « reliability and fairness of the system» and with the «need to continue to deepen the complementarity between internal and external evaluation in the sense of valuing secondary education as an end in itself and not just as a gateway to higher education».
Elvira Fortunato underlined the work «in articulation» between the two ministries and left the guarantee that the Government does not want «to create any problem in access to higher education».
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