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Consult here the questions and grading criteria for the tests taken in the 2nd phase of the 2026 National Final Exams for Secondary Education.

Considering the need to implement rigorous processes for validating the quality of national secondary school exam results, for the sake of transparency and fairness among all students, the JNE/EduQA carried out supplementary validation processes on a limited set of exams, approximately 1400 exams nationwide, out of a total of 290,351 exams, in order to ensure that the results presented in the official records had the necessary consistency.

This guide is intended for school principals and their designated staff, describing the necessary steps to provide students, through the Exam Monitoring Center application, with a PDF copy of the exam they have taken, following a request to view the exam or direct delivery to the student/guardian at the initiative of the school administration.

The digital grading process for external assessment tests is a highly complex technical and organizational operation, involving thousands of graders, hundreds of thousands of student responses, and a set of demanding procedures designed to ensure fairness among students and the validity of the results.

The Institute for Education, Quality and Evaluation (EduQA, IP) informs that the documents for the competitive procedure no. CPI/01/EduQA/2026 are available for consultation.

Following recently released information regarding the digitization of external assessment tests, EduQA considers it necessary to clarify that the information stating that Dr. Eulália Ramos Alexandre is not involved in this process is false. 

Following recent news reports regarding alleged guidelines for teachers to complete the grading of seemingly incomplete responses, EduQA clarifies that the guidelines issued by EduQA/JNE do not cover the situation described.

The Institute for Education, Quality and Evaluation (EduQA) presents activities carried out throughout the 2025/26 school year by schools/school clusters in the National Network of European Clubs.

Amendment to the external assessment calendar, updating the deadlines for posting results for the 1st phase and the general schedule for the 2nd phase of the national secondary school exams and the final cycle exams for basic education 2025/2026.