In the mother tongue’s yo test no longer ponder but tick the box
High school|Due to the savings, the student exams will become more tasks that are faster to check. The union of high school students is concerned about the effects of the changes.
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The Baccalaureate Board will change student examinations from 2026 onwards due to savings.
There will be more multi -choice tasks and short answers to the tests, the number of long essays is reduced.
The Secretary General of the Baccalaureate Board assures that the level of test requirements do not decrease.
The chairman of the Finnish High School Association is concerned about the effects of the changes on the legal protection of students.
Savings Making significant changes in student examinations from 2026 onwards.
The tests will be prepared in the future so that the tasks can be more effective. Therefore, for example, multiple choices and the number of tasks that require short answers is increasing.
At least in the mother tongue and literature exam, as well as real subject examinations, character limitations are introduced or the number of character recommendations will be reduced.
The number of open questions is reduced in foreign languages and another domestic language. The number of multiple -choice tasks and easy -to -evaluated gap tasks is increasing.
Real tests may also have more tasks or multiple -choice issues that require short answers.
Similarly, the mathematics exam increases the role of the tasks to be criticized quickly.
The Baccalaureate Board (YTL) According to the savings, the reliability and quality of the tests will not be significantly reduced.
How they then weaken, YTL Secretary General Tiina Tähkä??
« Compromises have to be made on what can be taken into account in the evaluation. Now we have to pay attention to the efficiency of criticism, so there are changes to the exams, » he says.
For example, according to Tähkä, points will change slightly, so that the test performance cannot be directly compared to the tests of previous years.
As state funding decreases, YTL will be prepared to pay five percent less fee for exam critics in the future. Changes will be made to the tests that reduce the time spent on criticism in the same proportion.
This year, approximately EUR 787,000 will have to be saved from YTL operating expenses, which corresponds to about ten percent of last year’s board. In the coming years, more savings will be coming.
Spike However, he assures that candidates will not be able to become a high school student.
The essay answers do not disappear, and future exams include both easy and difficult tasks. Thus, students can continue to show their skills in a wide variety of ways.
« Perhaps a lower level (easier) task changes to a faster task. Of course, this is considered on a subject -specific basis, » Tähkä says.
However, some of the candidates are strong when they can show their skills in long answers. Now that the answers are to be concentrated, the question arises whether the knowledge of the short expression is related to the knowledge to be measured?
« Usually, when you have the know -how, candidates are able to crystallize their thoughts quite well, » Tähkä says.
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« Even the government plans the essays from students. »
Finnish high school union chairman Veikka ormio is concerned about future changes.
According to Orgio, the potential impact of the reform may be, for example, an increase in errors in the assessment. He also wonders whether students can really show their skills in more dense tasks.
« The importance of reading and writing tasks has been talked about for years. There is no head or tail here, » Ormio says.
According to Orgio, the union of high school students believes that surgeries in the government’s baccalaureate should be canceled. He adds that YTL is in a bad place with his need for savings.
In colleges Often there is a lot of essay writing, so Ormio is concerned about whether universities can only rely on the quality of the baccalaureate as before.
« There may be far -reaching effects here if the system is to be crushed. The government also plagues the essays from students, » says Ormio.
Most of the universities entrants are selected by the certificate selection based on the grades of the student exam.
As the points entitled to different grades in the student examination will no longer be fully comparable to the score of previous years, universities will have a place of consideration on how to organize certificate in the future.
