It is the big day of the launch of a new test of the new formula baccalaureate.

After having worked in writing on the subjects of philosophy last Thursday, the students of Terminale are summoned from this Monday for the grand oral.

But with the health crisis his organization worries the unions.

Some 525,760 candidates for the general and technological baccalaureate are invited between June 21 and July 2 for twenty minutes of presentation and discussions with a jury. The subject of the presentation is to be chosen from two themes related to their specialty teaching, prepared during the year. The candidate then answers questions on this theme or other notions of the program and ends by explaining his orientation project.

The jury will assess on 20 points the candidate's ability to capture attention, his time management, the quality of his knowledge and his argument.

The grand oral has a coefficient of 10 in the general route and 14 in the technological route.

This is the only final test maintained, with the written philosophy, the other subjects being assessed in continuous assessment.

One notable difference, however: if in philosophy the mark can be replaced by the one obtained in the continuous assessment, this will not be the case for the grand oral.

Cancellation requests

This year, the high school and teacher unions requested the cancellation of this oral examination, due to the preparation difficulties caused by the health crisis. Since November in particular, many high school students have had to follow their courses at a distance. To reassure candidates, the Ministry of Education exceptionally allows them to keep the draft prepared for their presentation in front of them. They can also give the jury a description of their teachers indicating whether parts of the program could not be studied.

As the oral examinations approached, the unions were however worried about their organization, citing delays in sending invitations to students and teachers who must compose the juries.

“There are rectorates which provide tools at the last moment to better calculate the grade for this great oral exam, with spreadsheets for example (…) but no national line.

Everyone tinkers in their own corner, which shows that this ordeal is poorly prepared, ”also laments Sophie Vénétitay deputy general secretary of Snes-FSU, the first secondary school union.

The grand oral is the last test of the Terminale for the bac.

The results of this bicentennial exam will be released on July 6.

The catch-ups will start the next day and will run until July 9.

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