[etni] Re: Magen Tests
- From: Rivka Lewenstein <rlewen@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lsk120@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 04:02:38 -0700 (PDT)
We call them matkonot, and do 2-3 for each module throughout the year in the
format you've described. For our last set of matkonot, however, I prevail upon
our testing coordinator to give me half a day to give consecutive matkonot for
the entire school, following the schedule of the actual Bagrut. This allows the
students to get a feel of what the Bagrut will really be like, which is
especially important for students taking 2-3 modules at once, and gets the
whole school into "Bagrut atmosphere." Since we've implemented that, I've found
that students are more prepared on the day of the Bagrut, and also take that
final magen / matkonet more seriously. (Of course, the bigger the school, the
harder it is to do this.)
All the best,
Rivka
Linda wrote:
Now that the bagrut exams are 75 minutes (G:90 minutes) long and not 3
hours, I do not call any test a magen test. When the test was three hours
long, our school gave us 4 consecutive lessons (3-4 times a year) to give
full 3 hour exams. Those exams carried more weight than the 90 minute bagrut
type/bagrut exams.
We give many bagrut exams during the year and each exam carries the same
weight. Of course, as Sandra brought out, our students know the sites to
download bagrut exams (and answers) from and/or go to private teachers, so
we can't really call them "unseens"! Truth is, I had never heard that term
till I started teaching in Israel!
Linda Kuras Mizrahi
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