Special performance assessment
The special performance assessment for attesting a school education equivalent to the secondary school leaving certificate (short: special performance assessment or BLF ) is an examination carried out at grammar schools in Thuringia and Saxony at the end of the tenth grade.
The special performance assessment was introduced as a reaction to the rampage in Erfurt , since the student Robert Steinhäuser did not have a degree , which was seen as a cause for his act. In 2003, pupils from the Thuringian high schools could take an exam at the end of the tenth grade at their own request. This exam has been compulsory for all Thuringian high school students since 2004.
The examination subjects of the BLF in Thuringia are German , mathematics , a foreign language and a natural science ( biology , chemistry or physics ). The result of the special assessment makes up 51 percent of the annual graduation for the corresponding subjects. In Saxony, however, mathematics, German and English are tested. The length of the exams depends on the subject.
Furthermore, in Thuringia, no more class work may be written in the BLF subjects in the second half of the current school year. Although the BLF has the character of an examination, it was not declared as such by the Ministry of Education, as the students have normal lessons between the examination days and not, as is usual with exams, free.
The BLF has often come under criticism from the Thuringian media due to a higher level of tasks and stricter assessment than the Realschule exams and the restriction that an examination must only be taken in the first foreign language.
Regulation in other federal states
In the old federal states, the transfer from the 10th to the 11th grade of the grammar school is considered sufficient to get the secondary school leaving certificate issued when leaving the 10th grade or possibly later . There is no separate exam like in the Realschule , because the final grades are sufficiently secured by the class work and other performance tests. Taking over the secondary school exams would also be difficult because the high school students had a different (more demanding) class in the 10th grade.
In the federal states that emerged from the GDR, the tradition of uniform examinations after the 10th class of the POS continues to have an effect , so that it is often felt to be unfair if high school students get the secondary school leaving certificate without an examination. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, this has led to the regulation in the new school law from the 2020/21 school year that only high school students with an average grade of 3.9 without an examination receive the secondary school leaving certificate. Those who are lower than this or who have not been transferred can, upon request, take a special examination for secondary school leaving certificate.
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Single receipts
- ^ NDR: School Act: Agreement at the last minute. Retrieved January 6, 2020 .