Thousands of Basque students got quite a scare this Thursday, after receiving erroneous notes from the EAU exams by email, the name of the selectivity in the Basque Country. Students have seen grades in different subjects exceed or fall short of their expectations, or even receive excellent grades in subjects they had not taken. The failure has already been corrected and the students will receive an apology request by mail.
The University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), which manages this test, had chosen this year to publicize the grades in two ways. First of all, I would send the corresponding qualifications via email first thing in the morning today, in order to avoid saturation and that everyone would try to access at the same time. Secondly, throughout the morning I would enable a link to consult the notes.
The problem has occurred in that first path. Thousands of students have received erroneous emails with grades that corresponded to other students, due to a "computer failure", as indicated by the University of the Basque Country. Not all students have received the aforementioned erroneous emails, although a significant number, "less than half", according to official sources.
The error was detected first thing in the morning, around 7:30 a.m., and corrected about an hour and a half later, once the Basque public university confirmed and fixed the error.
Not in vain, the second way to know the grades has worked, and the students have been able to consult the correct grades. The University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) will send an email requesting an apology in the next few hours.
In the June call, more than 12,000 Basque Baccalaureate students have taken the first call for the University Access Assessment (EAU), managed by the University of the Basque Country, 98.07% have passed it. The percentage is slightly higher than the 97.62% of last year.
