Enrollment for national tests and secondary exams for access to higher education begins today, April 4th, and ends on the 17th, through the Electronic Registration Platform for Evidence and Exams (PIEPE).
Registration is done through the platform that is available on here, considering that, in the case of secondary education students, these are the tests required for access to higher education, and can also be used to improve the grades in previous exams or to increase the internal grade (the grade that is assigned by the teachers of the school for the work carried out during the year).
This year, the rules for accessing higher education remain unchanged, with the exceptional and temporary measures defined during the pandemic remaining in force.
On Monday, the diploma was published that establishes the measures for this year of evaluation, approval of disciplines, completion of scientific-humanistic courses in secondary education and access to higher education, as well as the order approving the Regulation of External Assessment Tests and Tests of Equivalence to the Attendance of Basic and Secondary Education.
The maintenance of the provisional rules that began to be applied in the pandemic had already been announced by the Ministers of Education and by the Minister with the Higher Education portfolio who justified the decision with the need to guarantee predictability for students who are finishing secondary school.
The secondary school assessment and completion model, as well as access to higher education, was subject to provisional measures in 2020, following the pandemic, which forced the isolation of the population and distance learning, which exacerbated inequalities in access to education.
The new rules for assessment and access to higher education will come into force in a phased manner and will not cover students who are now in the 12th year.
The new model applies in full to students entering the 10th year in September. For them, the different disciplines will have a different weighting in the weight of the average depending on whether they are disciplines of three, two or just one year.
Among the novelties is the fact that all students have to take three national exams, Portuguese being mandatory and the other two chosen by the students and that, when entering higher education, national exams now have a minimum weight of 45%.
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