Second activating event.

For me, the worst time of year is the time of  evaluation, it is a summative evaluation that gives my students access to the official examination of the profiles of Basque. I began to teach when I was 19, it   was a extremely different time in which people learned Basque "because it was our language." Today the people in my class learn so that they can take Euskara official exam, a certificate which gives them  points for some positions in Osakidetza, Ertzantza, Diputazioa, city council and so on . Even so,  I manage to encourage them and usually, I manage people  to   attend class happy, because  I encourage them  a lot, I get good atmosphere, and I try to make them to laugh a lot. The atmosphere is lively, suitable for study, in spite of those initial difficulties  and although people come really  tired;  at the end things  go well. But everybody wants to do the official exam. The problem is that they do not get  access to  the official exam unless they pass  the previous  assessment in the euskaltegi, an assessment that gives them an unofficial certificate which is compulsory to take the official one . My students do not understand the requirements, therefore they rebel and get  angry against it. I am not anymore   an ally of the study, and  I  become the person that puts them obstacles. Besides, to make things worse, there must be a period of  three months  from this evaluation to the official exam , meaning that anyone can work very hard in those three months and be ready for the official exam, however, in case they do not pass the previous one at the Euskaltegi then they miss the opportunity to attain to this exam and they will have to wait for the next one which is very unfair. I know there is nothing I can do, and these is not in my hands, but from my point of view, is a time when all my work to motivate them  comes down, and even, there is a risk to lose their confidence, which is the keystone of a good atmosphere of learning, thus,  I see myself obliged to let all my students pass this exam.