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In 31 higher education courses, only students with 18 or more values were able to enter the 1st phase, when last year it had only happened in 10. And in four of them, two at the Higher Technical Institute of Lisbon and two at the Faculty of Engineering of Porto – the candidates were left out with an average of 19. The changes introduced in the exams (with the possibility of giving incorrect answers without penalty, for example) and the fact that the tests were rejected for the conclusion of High school led to that, even in the most challenging of academic years, grades, averages, and highs have skyrocketed. To the point that the grade that was repeated the most on the normally difficult Math A test was 18 out of 20.
With hundreds of excellent students being left out of the desired course for tenths, the question arises: who was really ‘better’ than who was left out? Would it make sense to introduce other selection criteria? “Having a concentration of very high grades makes it difficult to differentiate between students and understand who has the most appropriate academic profile for each course,” admits the president of the Center for Research on Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Pedro Teixeira.
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