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06-18-2010, 04:00 PM
Education Minister Melanio Paredes has announced that everything is ready for 314,426 students to take the national scholastic tests on Tuesday with enhanced security measures. Paredes announced that students requiring special conditions would be evaluated in their own schools, preventing the need to transport them to unfamiliar surroundings.
After last year's scandals, when students were found using cell phones to exchange information, the Minister called on the educational community to make a serious commitment to this year's process.
A total of 158,818 eighth grade students, 33,968 adult students who are finishing primary school and 109,862 fourth year high school student plus 16,774 students from technical schools will be taking the tests.
Ancel Scheker, director of the National Scholastic Tests, told Listin Diario that in order to protect the integrity of the examinations, security measures for the tests themselves had been stepped up significantly.
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After last year's scandals, when students were found using cell phones to exchange information, the Minister called on the educational community to make a serious commitment to this year's process.
A total of 158,818 eighth grade students, 33,968 adult students who are finishing primary school and 109,862 fourth year high school student plus 16,774 students from technical schools will be taking the tests.
Ancel Scheker, director of the National Scholastic Tests, told Listin Diario that in order to protect the integrity of the examinations, security measures for the tests themselves had been stepped up significantly.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)