School levels
Most school software is written for one stage and stretched to cover the others. EduOnPoint models three, because a nursery class and a Terminale are not the same thing being assessed at different difficulties — they are assessed in different units, by different ministries, against different examinations.
Each stage carries its own ministry, its own way of recording what a child has done, and its own number of sequences in a term. A school ticks the sections it runs when it registers, and the rest of the system follows from that.
MINEDUB
Two years in the English sub-system, three in the French one, which is why a bilingual nursery runs five levels rather than two. Nothing is marked and nothing is ranked: the record is what the teacher saw.
MINEDUB
Six years to the certificate that closes primary school, with the entrance examination into secondary sat in the same year. Marked out of a hundred or out of twenty depending on the sub-system.
MINESEC
Two cycles under one stage. The first ends at the Ordinary Level or the BEPC, the second at the Advanced Level or the Baccalaureat, and a technical school follows its own ladder to the CAP and the Brevet de Technicien.
Secondary runs two cycles. The first ends at the Ordinary Level or the BEPC; the second is what everyone calls high school, and it ends at the Advanced Level or the Baccalauréat. They share a stage, a ministry and a mark scale, so the software keeps them as two cycles of one thing rather than two things.
The class names a school actually uses, in both sub-systems. A bilingual nursery runs five levels rather than two or three, because the English ladder is two years and the French one is three.
This is the part most systems get wrong. A nursery class is observed and written about; a primary class is marked; a competency is either acquired or it is not. Each level carries its own mode, and a report card is built from whichever one applies.
The teacher writes what the child did. No figure, no average, no rank — because none of those mean anything about a three-year-old, and printing a position in class for one is how a nursery report card becomes something a parent should ignore.
A mark out of the level's own denominator: a hundred in the English sub-system, twenty in the French one. Averaged by coefficient, ranked, and turned into an appreciation from the school's own grade bands.
A competency is acquired, being acquired, or not acquired. Three codes, no mark and no average — the shape the competency-based approach actually asks for.
Nursery sits nothing. Primary ends on two papers in the same year, not one: the certificate that closes primary school, and the entrance examination into secondary. EduOnPoint enters a pupil for both, because a school does.
MINEDUB
Taken at the end of Class 6. Closes the primary school course and is the certificate the pupil keeps.
MINEDUB
Sat in the same year as the First School Leaving Certificate. It is the entrance into Form 1, so a candidate is normally entered for both.
MINEDUB
En fin de CM2. Sanctionne l'école primaire.
MINEDUB
Passé la même année que le CEP. C'est le concours d'entrée au premier cycle du secondaire.
Stage is one axis and sub-system is the other. Anglophone, francophone, bilingual and technical schools mark, report and examine differently at every stage above nursery.
Registration creates an empty school that only you can see. Nothing is shared with any other school on the platform, and there is nothing to cancel.
