Relocation check
Promotion examinations were held in the GDR standard school from the 1951 curriculum reform up to the end of the 1950s from grade 4.
description
These were written and oral intermediate examinations that were compulsory at the end of each school year (June, July), with the exception of the classes that ended with a regular final examination. The tests should show to what extent the students have the knowledge, skills and abilities required in the curricula of the respective classes and are capable of successfully working in the subsequent classes. All topics and tasks, scope and requirements, evaluation guidelines and dates were specified centrally for the entire GDR by the Ministry of National Education. The preparatory material sent to the schools could also be used for questions in the oral subjects. The written exams had to begin on the specified dates nationwide at 8 a.m., while the oral examinations, with an interruption of one hour, took place from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Separate instructions were issued for Sorbian schools. Slightly different regulations applied to less structured primary schools (i.e. classes spanning several years).
The end-of-year censorship in a subject was determined from the previous censorship on the annual written achievements, the previous censorship on the oral annual achievements and the examination censorship. All partial grades were included equally. Thus, the weight of the transfer exams was 33% when examining only in writing and 50% when examining both written and oral. If the calculated grade was not clear, the examination was decisive.
A 5 as exam censorship meant the non-promotion and therefore the repetition of the class. Re-exams could only be approved under certain circumstances, in the event of illness or unexpected failure of a student relative to his or her other performance. If the class conference accepted the request for a repeat examination, the student had time to close his knowledge gaps over the long vacation. For this, the responsible subject teacher had to create a repetition plan for the student to study on their own. In the last weeks of August, shortly before the start of the new school year on September 1st, the examinations were carried out.
Promotion test in elementary schools
The following exams had to be taken in writing under the written exam or orally in the colloquium:
- in the 4th school year
German language (dictation) in 45 minutes,
mathematics in 45 minutes - in the 5th school year
German language (dictation) in 45 minutes,
mathematics in 60 minutes - in the 6th school year
German language (dictation) in 45 minutes,
mathematics in 90 minutes - in the 7th school year
German language (dictation) in 45 minutes
German language (grammar) in 45 minutes
Mathematics in 90 minutes
Russian (translation) in 90 minutes
History (oral)
Mathematics (oral)
German (oral)
Russian (oral)
Promotion test at ten-grade schools and high schools
The following exams had to be taken in writing under the written exam or orally in the colloquium:
- in grade 9
German language (dictation) in 45 minutes
German language (grammar) in 45 minutes
German language (essay) in 180 minutes
Mathematics in 120 minutes
History (questions) in 120 minutes - in class 10
German language (essay) in 180 minutes
Mathematics in 180 minutes
Russian (translation Russian-German) in 120 minutes
History (questions) in 120 minutes - in class 11
German language (essay) in 180 minutes
Mathematics in 240 minutes
Russian (translation Russian-German) in 120 minutes
History (two subjects to choose from) in 180 minutes
Changes with the introduction of the secondary school leaving certificate
After the decision that a final examination for secondary school leaving certificate should be carried out at the end of grade 10 at ten-grade schools and high schools , the requirements for the transfer examinations in the upper grades were also changed.
- in class 9
German language (essay) in 180 minutes,
mathematics in 120 minutes,
history (questions) in 180 minutes - in class 11
mathematics in 240 minutes
Russian (translation Russian-German) in 120 minutes
B-classes: biology in 180 minutes
A- and C-classes: 2nd foreign language (translation) in 120 minutes
German (oral)
meaning
Supplemented by the control work , the transfer test served as a decisive tool to establish and guarantee the achievement principle as far as possible in the single school. The manageability, didactic planning and the fulfillment of the curriculum could be checked from the data obtained. Observations about the professional level of school and pupils became possible as well as conclusions about the amount of material, the methodology and the interaction of the different levels of the democratic unified school. In addition, the students should be taught a continuous, sustainable learning rhythm. The Ministry of Public Education wanted to avoid or prevent bad pupils from being dragged through, so that on the one hand the usual performance requirement was increased again with the exams, i.e. the pupils had to consistently repeat and internalize the material of the school year, and on the other hand the risk of staying seated was increased . Ideologically concealed behind it u. a. the left-authoritarian ideas of solid basic skills such as diligence, discipline, perseverance and order, typical of the GDR. The statistical evaluation of the promotion tests was carried out comprehensively and provided extensive, reliable, detailed information about the school system. Later these valuable experiences flowed into the progress of the unit school. For example, the great reform of 1959, including the curriculum of the polytechnic high school , is based to a large extent on the database provided by the long-term performance evaluations in the form of transfer tests and control work.
Individual evidence
- ↑ VuMMfV Lfd. No. 96/51 Ordinance on the implementation of weekly examinations in grades 9, 10 and 11 of the secondary school of 3 March 1951
- ↑ VuMMfV instruction on the implementation of intermediate examinations in the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grades of primary school in the school year 1951/52 from May 6, 1952
- ↑ VuMMfV Lfd. No. 8/53 Instruction on the implementation of promotion tests in the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grades of primary school in the school year 1952/53 of March 25, 1953
- ↑ VuMMfV Lfd. No. 77/54 Instruction on the implementation of promotion tests in the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grades of the elementary school in the school year 1953/54 of April 5, 1954
- ↑ VuMMfV Lfd. No. 83/54 Instruction on the implementation of promotion examinations at the secondary schools of the German Democratic Republic in the school year 1953/54 from April 5, 1954
swell
- Decrees and notifications of the Ministry for National Education of the German Democratic Republic, 1953–1989
- Decrees and notifications of the Ministry for National Education and the State Secretariat for Vocational Education and Training of the German Democratic Republic, 1970–1989
- Curriculum of the 10-class general polytechnic high school of the German Democratic Republic, 1959
- Curriculum of the expanded 12-class general polytechnic secondary school of the German Democratic Republic, 1961