[etni] Fw: oral Bagrut

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From: sbshai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: oral Bagrut

Someone recently wrote about how farcical the oral Bagrut has become due to 
the great variance in testers' standards (i.e., more than a few don't 'go by 
the book'), which makes the results of the test totally unreliable.

Considering all the wasted time (both teachers' and students') and money 
(the MOE's), wouldn't it make simple good sense to do away with this segment 
of the Bagrut exam?

Moreover, as long as there are English teachers who use Hebrew as the main 
language for communication in the classroom (even for 5 pointers), how can 
the Ministry expect us to test them in spoken English?  Are we counting on 
the English our students hear on TV and movies or the kind of  literature 
they usually read?

Though I haven't come up with an alternative to the present system, I think 
most of us would agree that the time spent on preparing for the oral test 
would be better used in preparation for the written exams  -- not to mention 
that there should be more to 12th grade English than the looming Bagrut.

Thanks to ETNI for providing a place to gripe!
Shabbat Shalom,
Batya



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