Ministry warns minor form errors may derail high school admissions

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The Ministry of Education has issued urgent guidance to parents and students ahead of the July 13–20 window for high school admissions, warning that even minor errors in application forms could cost candidates their preferred academic profiles. The computerised allocation system, which matches students to schools based on ranked preferences and national exam scores, will open on July 22, leaving little room for corrections once the July 8 results are finalised. “A single misplaced tick or omitted code can reroute a pupil to a programme they did not choose,” a ministry spokesperson told Digi24 .
The warning follows a week of corrections to this year’s national exams. On Thursday, the ministry revised the official answer keys for the Logic, Argumentation and Communication paper and the Inorganic Chemistry section of the Baccalaureate, after teachers and parents flagged errors within hours of publication. The new keys changed one correct response in each subject, prompting immediate updates to digital marking systems . In Belgium, Education Minister Valérie Glatigny faced criticism over a primary-school history question that described King Leopold II as an “entrepreneurial and shrewd strategist,” omitting reference to atrocities committed during Congo’s colonial period .
Further afield, Greek universities are tightening assessment rules in response to the rapid spread of artificial intelligence, with some institutions reinstating in-person examinations to curb AI-assisted cheating . Meanwhile, Portugal’s education authorities have postponed the release of secondary-school exam results from July 14 to July 17, citing delays in digital marking, though the university-access calendar remains unchanged .
At home, one Bucharest school recorded a 0 % pass rate in this year’s national assessment, the first time in memory that no candidate met the minimum threshold . The ministry has yet to explain the anomaly, but officials have dispatched inspectors to review the grading process. As the admissions window opens in ten days, the dual pressures of tight deadlines and shifting exam standards are testing the resilience of pupils, parents and schools alike.
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