The UC raises the grade to 272 students who had less time in the EBAU Language exam

The University of Cantabria (UC) has already adopted a solution to compensate the grades of the group of students who took the Spanish Language and Literature exams at the EBAU with less time than the others, which were 272 in total, and who will be given an additional score.

After errors were detected in the tests for this subject -as also happened in the Latin and History of Spain tests-, the coordinators decided to give the students an extra half hour to make up for the time it took to correct them.. However, the measure did not reach all the classrooms, and these almost three hundred students did not have the two hours that the rest of the Cantabrians who presented themselves to the EBAU -some 3,000- had in total..

This happened to 23 students from a group that took the exam at the Official School of Languages (EOI) in Torrelavega and another 4 who did so in San Vicente de la Barquera, who were not given that extra half hour and therefore had to to do the test in 90 minutes. In addition, another 245 students who took the tests at the EOI in Laredo were given an additional 20 minutes instead of 30, so they had 110 minutes instead of 120, as reported by the University of Cantabria (UC)..

An off topic exercise

Specifically, the error in the Language and Literature test was that the exercise was based on a text that did not fit into the syllabus to be studied, so it had to be changed for another at the time of the exam.. The UC Vice Chancellor for Students and Employment, Marta García Lastra, advanced last Friday that the solutions had already been given to all the errors found in the exams, although it remained to be decided how to compensate the students who had not had this measure of 30 additional minutes in Language.

Now, the Organizing Commission of the EBAU, formed by the UC and the Ministry of Education and which met on Friday to discuss solutions, already has these measures to apply to these 272 affected students, which consist of increasing the grade obtained with a score additional.

For this, the Commission gives two options, and the one that gives the highest score must be applied.. The first consists of adding the difference between the average grade obtained in Language by students who have had 120 minutes and the average of students who have had 90 or 110, in each case; and the second to multiply the mark obtained by each student in the exercise of this matter by the proportional part of the exam time not taken. In any case, the total score may not exceed 10 points.