DOE

Ministry of Education and Culture Grants

The Ministry of Education and Culture grant, through a resolution published today in the Official Journal of Extremadura (DOE), Outstanding High School Awards for the academic year 2010/2011, a total of nine students, amounting to 900 Euros each, for a total of 8,100 Euros.

Students are awarded Balthazar Corral Ana Marta Pederast Giuliani, the IES ‘Professor Hernandez Pacheco’, Caceres, Blanca Blanco Lopez and Laura Hidalgo Mansion, IES ‘Albarregas’, Merida, Leonor Cristina Montes Garcia Lunge and Barraging, the IES ’Santa Eulalie’, Merida, Isabel Galan Galvez, the IES ‘San Fernando’, Badajoz, Maria Teresa Santos Delgado, IES ‘Rodriguez Minion’, Badajoz, and Beatriz Vera Polo, IES ‘Suarez de Figueroa’ Zarf.

The Department announces the awards in order to officially recognize the merits based on the effort and work of the students who has studied high school with excellent academic performance in schools in the Autonomous Community of Extremadura.

To be eligible for Awards Outstanding High School pupils had to have passed the high school in this course and have a qualification file that applying the scale lay down in any type of high school, was equal to or greater than 8, 75 points.

The selection procedure consisted of passing a test that consisted of two parts and held on the 28th of June at the IES ‘Santa Eulalie’, Merida.

In the first part, participants performed a text analysis of linguistic, philosophical or historical, in that they obtained a maximum score of 10 points, and analysis of text in the first foreign language submitted and responses to the issues that matter cultural, linguistic or grammatical, could be raised on it, which could also reach a maximum of 10 points.

The second part of the test consisted of performing two exercises on two matters of form, one for each of these subjects studied by students in second high school and chosen by him in his application, with a maximum score of 10 points each.

To achieve the award, students must have tested at each test at least 5 points and an overall rating equal to or greater than 32 points.