A teacher distributes a document to her students in Rennes (illustrative image).

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The Ministry of National Education published this Wednesday the calendar of the baccalaureate, new formula.

This year, Terminale students will start the specialty exams in March, followed in June by the written exams and the grand oral.

The specialty tests will take place between March 15 and 17.

According to figures from the ministry, mathematics, despite a "high dropout rate", is the most chosen specialty education with 41% of students who have decided to take these courses.

Next come physics and chemistry (34%) and economics (33%).

Too short a period for the unions

The objective of this reform, decided by Jean-Michel Blanquer, is not to confine students to scientific, economic or literary fields but to allow them to associate several disciplinary fields.

In a statement, the Snes-FSU, the first secondary school union, wondered "how to organize all the specialty tests in two days with regard to the number of possible combinations in a high school".

"In large high schools, we can have up to 50 combinations and in the others it is on average between 20 and 30", explains Sophie Vénétitay of Snes-FSU, assuring that "it is totally unplayable to pass them on such a short period ”.

“And that means that two subjects are needed per specialty, that the students therefore do not take all the same subjects and that therefore calls into question the national character of the examination,” she says.

Philosophy tests on June 17

The traditional written exam session will start on June 17 with the philosophy exams.

From Monday June 21 to Friday July 2 will take place the tests of the grand oral.

The results of the baccalaureate will be given on July 6 and the remedial session will be held from July 7 to 9.

In addition, the ministry recalls that the schedule of common evaluations, made up of common duties carried out within the framework of class hours during the final year, "will be decided by the head of each establishment after consultation of the pedagogical council and deliberation from the administration board ".

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