Status: 02/16/2023 11:12 a.m
Children and young people had to do without a lot during the Corona years. Apparently, they also gave the high school graduates an advantage: significantly better grades than before the pandemic.
School closures, distance learning, hardly any social contacts – the corona pandemic was not easy for schoolchildren. But the difficult situation has apparently also meant that the proportion of A-level grades has increased significantly during this time. The Ministers of Education had agreed that Corona should not cause any disadvantages to high school graduates – at least not when it comes to grading.
Of a total of 310,000 high school graduates, at least one in four achieved a grade between 1.0 and 1.9 in their final certificate last year. This is reported by the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” and the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten”. The newspapers refer to the grade statistics of the Conference of Ministers of Education (KMK).
Strongest increase in Baden-Württemberg and Berlin
Compared to 2019, the last regular examination year before the start of the pandemic, the proportion rose significantly. In Baden-Württemberg there was an increase of eleven and in Berlin of ten percentage points.
According to reports, more than one in three high school graduates in ten federal states has a first-class diploma: in Hamburg, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein it is 34 percent, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 35 percent, in Bavaria and Berlin 36 percent, in Hesse 37 percent and in Brandenburg 39 percent.
Schleswig-Holstein (25 percent), Rhineland-Palatinate (26) and Lower Saxony (27 percent) have the lowest proportions of ones. North Rhine-Westphalia (30 percent) and Bremen (31 percent) take a middle place.
According to the report, most high school graduates with a grade of one before the decimal point registered the KMK statistics with values of more than 40 percent in Thuringia and Saxony.
