In the clip above, you get to meet students from both high schools after national exams in English and in geography.
After a two-hour test in geography, the student Johanna Hermansson comes out with a resigned look.
- I always write more than you should and then it ends up that I can not handle all the questions because I do not have time.
I have such a hard time prioritizing, she says.
The tears are close.
- I came out booming from national in Swedish and biology but they still went well.
There I got A and C, she says and continues:
- But this test is probably the one that went worst.
"Students feel bad"
For the schools, the tests mean a huge apparatus with preparation, special test rooms, monitoring and correction.
Each test takes about 120 minutes to complete and afterwards the students are tender, say the teachers we meet.
- It is tough to go to ninth grade with everything that belongs to it and national tests do not make school stress less, says Marie Rimpler who is a teacher at Bjärehovsskolan.
- It touches me to see how bad they feel about these tests, says Jennie Jackler, special educator at Ölyckeskolan.
Principals critical of NP
- The rest of the school day is ruined because the students have no energy left, says Anna Jaxelius who is the principal at Ölyckeskolan in Löberöd in Eslöv municipality.
She is supported by the principal at Bjärehovskolan in Bjärred in Lomma:
- It is a good check for equality in school, but the question is whether it does not take more than it gives, says Susanne Haglind.
National test gesture - meet students and teachers
"God, I will have national, I will have national"
18 sec
"You feel worse during than before"
19 sec
"I think it causes too much stress"
25 sec
"It has only become one thing to perform on"
20 sec
"Students feel bad about this"
18 sec
"It's the whole world for a few days if it goes bad"
32 sec