It is requested that the exams be re-evaluated.

Frankly, I was not surprised at all when I saw the data announced today: Applications for the re-examination of national exam scores in high schools have already exceeded 20,000. Last year, at this time, only around 6,200 objections had been received for the exam in the first stage. So there is an explosion of almost three times. So, what has changed in one year that everyone wants their paper to be read again? If you ask Education Minister Fernando Alexandre, the culprit is the "new grading model". As you know, the digital system was switched to for the first time this year. Teachers can no longer read a student's paper from cover to cover and form a general opinion; The system only gives them a single question item. The Minister says: "In the old system, there were not many marks left between 9 and 9.5 because only one teacher read them, and the teacher tended to pass them somehow. Now, since each question is read by a different person, the system is more objective, but the number of students who are just at the border has naturally increased." The mathematics of the matter actually confirms this. This year, more than 20,000 students missed the passing grade by exactly 0.4 points. According to the data of the supervisory board, 2,400 students were stuck at 9.4 grades. So they're just one tenth of a point away from 9.5, the critical cutoff between failing and passing. In such a situation, which of us wouldn't say, "Let me try my luck again, maybe I'll get 0.1 points"? This is the biggest motivation behind the explosion of objections. However, the situation on the ground is not as rosy as the Minister said. The school principals and teachers we have been talking to for days are making a very different point. According to them, the real issue is the confusion in the digital transition process: confused responses, lost attendance sheets and technical glitches that cannot be resolved for days... Even the announcement of the grades was delayed for days due to technical problems and was not delayed until the evening of July 17. Thousands of young people and their families suffered in front of the screen for days. You won't believe it, but as of this morning, there were still dozens of students who could not see their grades in the system. Although the Minister assured that "None of our students will be victimized due to disruptions in the system, and there will be no loss of rights in the transition to higher education", unfortunately, the stress of that uncertainty in the field was experienced. The appeal process is still ongoing for students who access their exam papers late. So, as you can see, this record number of 20,000 requests seems to climb even higher in the coming days.