Adjustments To The Final Primary School Test.

Adjustments To The Final Primary School Test.

Recently there were two changes announced about the final test in group 8. The first is about the categories of final test advice. The second is about the mandatory take of the final test in special primary education.

Final test

Students in group 8 of primary education have been legally required since 2015 to make a final test. The school chooses one of the five approved final tests. After the student has taken the test, each child gets their own final test advice.

All final tests the same six test advices

The five different final tests did not all have the same categories for the result of the final test advice. That has now been aligned. All tests now have the same categories for the test advice. Your child will now receive one of the following advices after the final test:

• Pro/vmbo bb
• Vmbo bb/vmbo kb
• Vmbo kb/vmbo gl-tl
• Vmbo gl-tl/havo
• Havo/vwo
• Vwo

Effect on the school advice

The advices of the final test are almost all double advices. The school advice from primary school may consist of one or two school types. Your child can therefore get a single (for example vmbo-tl) or multiple (for example vmbo-tl/havo) advice. If the final test advice is higher than the school advice, the primary school must reconsider the school advice. In this infographic you can see how the final school advice is created in several steps:

Final test also mandatory in special primary education

The final test for students in special primary education and special education was not yet mandatory. Now the final tests have also been made suitable for these students. Therefore they will also take a final test from 2019-2020 onwards. This concerns students with an IQ of 75 or higher and the secondary school transition test outflow profile.

Exceptions

There remain some students who do not have to take the final test. This concerns:

• very difficult learning students with an IQ lower than 75
• multiple disabled students for whom very difficult learning is one of the disabilities;
• students who have been in the Netherlands for four years or less and therefore do not master the Dutch language well enough.

Do you want to know if an exception applies for your child? Then view this infographic.

Central final test shorter

One of the five approved final tests is the Central Final Test. Some changes also take place here. The paper test will be taken in 2019 in two sessions instead of the usual three. The digital adaptive test will be shorter and will differentiate more. Read more about this on the website of the CvTE.

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