CBE gives students partial exemption after technical glitch during english diploma exams
Posted Jan 14, 2015 11:50 pm.
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The Calgary Board of Education says students who were affected by Tuesday’s server crash during English diploma exams can apply for a partial exemption.
When the computers went down , students had to resort to using a pen and paper and some had to wait much longer to actually do their exams.
The CBE says Alberta Education is allowing students to calculate their final course mark using their school awarded mark and the ‘reading’ part of the diploma.
As well, if students want to re-take the exam in April or June, the fees will be waived.
Students wrote the Social Studies 30 exam on Wednesday and no glitches were identified.
They say of the ten other diploma exams to be written, most are not technology-based and shouldn’t be affected.
