The Swedish National Agency for Education cancels digital national exams

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The Swedish National Agency for Education cancels digital national exams
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The Swedish National Agency for Education cancels the first digital national exams. Last week, problems arose when testing the Swedish National Agency for Education's platform.

"The National Agency for Education wants to complete the analysis after the large-scale practice test on November 6. During the practice test, it was noted that schools had difficulties logging in and some experienced the system as slow," the authority writes in a press release.

Students will instead be allowed to write substitute exams on paper. The exams affected include English, Swedish and Swedish as a second language.

This spring, the planned digital exams had to be canceled. The reason was a system update that leaked students' personal data to other schools.

The Swedish National Agency for Education pulled the emergency brake, with the result that students had to write the exams on paper, or on the schools' own local platforms.

In 2017, the Swedish National Agency for Education was tasked by the government to gradually introduce digital national exams from 2024. In April of this year, the government proposed adding 82 million to the already 700 million that has been spent on creating a functioning exam platform.

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