Feel the feeling a little. It is the first time you will take an exam. You have worked hard with your school work to achieve your dream of a study place in the autumn. You’ve studied and read until you’re sweating. Sleepless nights. Head full of subjects. Then comes the big day. You do your best, and breathe a sigh of relief when you have to deliver. You might even feel that it went pretty well after all? The next day you wake up to the message that you have failed the subject, and that you have failed the subject. Even if it’s not your fault. Mattheus Marthinsen, Tobias Støvland Riksfjord and Elise Johansson in the schoolyard. Photo: Theodor Aasland Valen / news – Chaos It may sound like a nightmare, but for many graduating students this has been a harsh reality in recent days. In the school yard at Thor Heyerdahl Secondary School in Larvik, there is a bad atmosphere to say the least. We meet the students Elise Johansson, Tobias Støvland Riksfjord and Mattheus Marthinsen. They have already spoken to Østlandsposten, which was the first to come forward with the case. The three have all experienced the same thing. When they had to deliver the exam digitally, they ran into major problems on Monday. The exam invigilators said it went well, but not at the time. Mattheus Marthinsen, student. Photo: Theodor Aasland Valen / news Three days later they were told that they had delivered blank. – It is absolutely terrible that we have to be in that situation here, and potentially fail and not get a certificate due to a system failure. It is a very heavy feeling to carry, says Tobias Støvland Riksfjord. This was the first time he had taken an exam and he did not know how to deliver it. The guards didn’t know that either. – It was chaos from beginning to end, he says. Several thousand may be affected A phone call to the examination office did not improve the situation. On the contrary. – They could tell that there was no basis for censorship, sighs Riksfjord. The friends received the same discouraging answer. – Due to system errors, we may fail. We should be allowed to submit the answers again, and that they count in the same way as everyone else. These are things we have been working on for three years, says Johansson. – Our academic future is put on hold or at risk, says Marthinsen. 270,000 pupils at upper secondary schools were affected when the Directorate of Education’s pages crashed during the Norwegian examination on Monday. In Vestfold and Telemark alone, 1,500 pupils were affected. So far, there is no concrete solution on the table. Gets support from the teacher Anders Hasle is a teacher at the school, and allows himself to be strongly provoked by what has happened. He fully supports his students. Anders Hasle, a teacher at the school, believes the case is a scandal. Photo: Theodor Aasland Valen / news – This is a scandal. The school owner must ensure that the exam invigilators are trained to show the students how to pass them in the right way, he says to news. The teacher fears that the problems may also affect upcoming exams. – These are my students that I have had for three years. They have several exams left. How should they prepare calmly and peacefully for this? They feel completely alone, he says. The principal at the school, Lin Marie Holvik, thinks it is very regrettable if the students are injured. Lin Marie Holvik, principal at Thor Heyerdahl high school in Larvik. Photo: Theodor Aasland Valen / news – It is probably primarily the examination procedure for the Norwegian Directorate of Education that is failing, she believes. Whether the students fail or not, she cannot answer as the situation is today. However, Holvik believes that it is a misfire to lay the blame on the fact that the exam invigilators were not sufficiently informed. – This is entirely a system failure, she believes. Working to solve the problems The Directorate of Education says they are working on the matter. – After Monday’s login problems, it is particularly important to us that the rest of the examination process is good and safe for the students and private students. We have put in large resources to deliver on this, says Director of Education Morten Rosenkvist. Morten Rosenkvist, Director of Education. Photo: Amanda Iversen Orlich / news He encourages students who have had problems logging in to notify their schools. On Tuesday, they held a meeting with the state administrators, where they asked them to collect and document knowledge about the situation in each county municipality. – We are now waiting to receive this knowledge from the state administrators, before we can say anything more about the situation locally, says Rosenqkvist. In the meantime, the Directorate of Education has closed the online complaints service while they wait for an overview. Ben Ståle Leirvåg, examination officer in Vestfold and Telemark county council, is confident that they will find a suitable solution for the students who are affected. – Within a week, we expect to get a clarification on how to handle the situation, he says.
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Students fear that they will fail the exam due to login problems – news Vestfold and Telemark – Local news, TV and radio
