L’annulation —à cause des pluies torrentielles qui s’abattaient sur le pays — des épreuves d’anglais (Paper I) auxquelles devaient participer des candidats de School Certificate mercredi dernier a rassuré ces derniers et leurs proches, mais a aussi soulevé des questions sur l’évaluation du papier, dont la deuxième partie est au programme cette semaine.
La ministre de l’Éducation, Leela Devi Dookun-Luchoomun, avait donné l’assurance que Cambridge accorderait une « special consideration » aux candidats mauriciens qui n’ont pu se rendre dans les centres d’examens ce jour-là, d’autant que pratiquement tout le pays était paralysé. Beaucoup de candidats, de parents et aussi d’enseignants se sont dirigés vers le site en ligne de l’université anglaise pour comprendre ce qu’elle entend par « special consideration. » Ci-dessous un extrait des explications détaillées de Cambridge sur cette politique appliquée dans des situations exceptionnelles. Cambridge répond aussi à la question sur le mode de calcul pour l’attribution des points dans les missing components.
« Special consideration is a post-exam adjustment that we make to a candidate’s mark. We do this to make allowances for some adverse circumstances, for example illness, bereavement, temporary injury or disruption to an exam (…) To work out a grade when a student has missed one or more components, we generate marks – which we call ‘assessed marks’ – for the missing components based on the candidate’s performance in other components in the syllabus. We work out what position the candidate is in, compared to all the other candidates, for the components they took. We put the candidate in the same position for the component(s) they missed. We check what mark candidates would normally receive in that position on the list, and give them those marks.For example, you might enter a candidate for a syllabus that has three components. The candidate takes component 2 but is absent from component 1 and component 3 for an acceptable reason.We work out the total marks for component 2 for all the Cambridge candidates worldwide who took it alongside components 1 and 3.We look at the candidate’s total mark for component 2. We find out what position this puts the candidate in compared to all other Cambridge candidates who took component 2 alongside components 1 and 3. We look at the marks scored by the same group of candidates for components 1 and 3. The assessed marks that we give the candidate for these components put them in the same position, compared to all Cambridge candidates, as they are in for the component they actually took.The assessed marks for the missed components are added to the candidate’s mark for component 2, and we give a syllabus grade in the usual way.”