“It is very simplistic. I think that 6th primaries could have succeeded. I found it particularly easy this year, especially the booklet 1”confirms a professor of history and geography who watched the CE1D in math. “”The level of students is so low from the COVIR that nothing can make up for this leveling from below. “
At the end of the secondary second, all students are assessed in mathematics, sciences, French and modern languages. As with the CEB in 6th grade, the CE1D is compulsory and tests basic knowledge with identical questions and correction criteria for everyone. Last year, 57 % of the second secondary people succeeded in Math, 68.8 in science, 85.2 % in French and 69 % in modern languages with an average score of, respectively, 52.6 %, 55.5 %, 66.1 % and 60.1 %.
The teachers are categorical, the CEB was more demanding before: “fewer and fewer materials are assessed”
Secondary 3rd remediation
Currently, the success threshold is 50 % and this is where the rub. “”A student can have 0 math all year round in secondary and second second. If he obtains the average at CE1D, I can’t say anything and he can go to secondary 3rd. It is mistreatment for the student ! They are made to believe that they have the level to go to 3rd general secondary school when it is not prepared at all to take a math course because it takes solid bases in algebra !”says Catherine.
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The teacher assures her, she is not against the principle of an external assessment common and identical to everyone but it is necessary to remove biases: the criteria of corrections are in favor of the student and the questions are not aligned with the expected of the upper year. “”We no longer give meaning to the mathematical symbol. Students can make mistakes in writing. There are directors and inspectors who tell us that we must grant the point even if the answer does not correspond exactly to the expected term. There are teachers who help students because otherwise the success rate is very low when it is prohibited…. All this to reach the highest success rates “she lists.
What worries the most are the consequences the students (generalized failure, loss of confidence, dropping out) because teachers have more difficulty in making parents understand that we will have to work so as not to win in secondary 3. “”As we deceive the student, it must be told that he is not able to follow in secondary 3rd and the state should pay real remediation courses. Succeed with 70 % at CE1D when we have 40 % all year round, that makes us go to secondary 3rd with an average of 30 %”argues the teacher.
Like many colleagues, Catherine does remediation voluntarily to help young people who come up against certain subjects. But she wonders until she has the energy.
