Ivory Coast: "Take your sheets", a school help app from CM1 to terminale
Class in a school in the Koumassi district of Abidjan, May 25, 2020. AP - Diomande Ble Blonde
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"Take your sheets" is the app that has just won the RFI and France 24 Challenge App Africa competition. It is an application that allows students to revise their lessons and test themselves for exams.
In a country where teaching is sometimes criticized and where some establishments have up to more than 100 students per class, this app may appear to be a practical solution.
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With our correspondent in Abidjan,
Pierre Pinto
In Côte d'Ivoire, last year, less than 30% of candidates were admitted to the baccalaureate.
A relatively low rate which is not new and which inspired Christelle Hien-Kouamé, 38, who drew on her own experience.
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I was from middle school to high school at the municipal high school in Yopougon, the number of students was quite high so we had to collect homework with big brothers in the neighborhood or in photocopied annals to be sure to be at the level.
And I think it's still going on, this quest for resources and homework to self-assess.
It's a bit of all this that we have compiled in today's application.
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Thus was born a few months ago "Take your sheets", a school review and exam preparation app for students from CM1 to terminale, in all subjects.
But also to parents who can follow the evolution of their children.
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The application includes summaries of lessons from the entire school program, quizzes relating to all these lesson summaries, class assignments, mock exams and previous national exams.
We think the market is buoyant, because today we cover 1.3 million students in Côte d'Ivoire, who are between CM1 and terminale.
Every year, more than 300,000 students take the exams.
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If the app is free, access to the corrected is paying: 10,000 francs per year for all subjects and homework.
Eneza, the company that develops it, has a dozen employees, as well as about thirty corrective teachers.
She hopes to quickly reach 30,000 subscribers to be profitable.
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To listen: Challenge App Africa 2021: Ivorian Christelle Hien Kouame wins the sixth edition
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