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Colegio Nacional de San Isidro


The Colegio Nacional de San Isidro (CNSI) is a public institution of secondary education located at San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Founded on March 19, 1890 by a Decree of the President of the Argentine Nation .

This decret was signed by ex President Dr. Victorino de la Plaza and ex Justice and Public Instruction Minister, Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas. After one year, created the new Budget Law of 1917, it was created actual National College, designing by a decree signed by the ex President Dr. Hipolito Yrigoyen and ex Justice and Public Instruction Minister Dr. Jose C. Salinas, Directive Personal and teachers, and rectory office was given to Dr. Jose Maria Piran.

Ubication

It is located at Acassuso 165th, in San Isidro City, Buenos Aires Province, nearby to the San Isidro Cathedral. To arrive this place, people can travel by the metropolitan bus lines number 203, 333, 365, 168 and 707 or taken the trains "Mitre" (Actual Tba Company) or Tren de la Costa. The high school is nearby two large avenues, Del Libertador Av. and Centenario Av., which connect Greater Buenos Aires north area with the federal district.

Admission exam

Every year, students who are interested in to enter to the Nacional de San Isidro must assist to an admission course for 3 month, all days of the week, excepting weekends. In this course, students are evaluated in four different areas: Mathematics, Geography, Linguistics and History. This course is similar to the admission courses from renowned Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini.

The average of all evaluations is the final result. When the course is finalized, student who have a result of 4 points (4 of 10 points) can enter, but this depend of the number of students who have better notes than this. Every year, 500 students enter to this high school, of a total of about 1500 who start the course. The best 10 result can choose the shift (morning or afternoon). The assignment of shift to the other 490 student who enter, is by means of a drawing lot. Students who have a brother or a sister in a course in this college, can choose the same shift and avoid the drawing lot.

Studying program

The C.N.S.I. is the only public college in the Argentina (excepting the Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires) that isn't adhered to the Education System made by the Ministry of Education.

External links

Official website of the C.N.S.I.

Website of the Cooperator of the C.N.S.I.

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