Let's go for the 2022 baccalaureate, with written specialty tests which are being held for the first time this week, Covid-19 obliges.
Postponed from March to May due to the epidemic, they are not taken into account in Parcoursup.
Canceled events
In 2020, high school students in Terminale had obtained – or not – their baccalaureate on the basis of their grades in continuous assessment.
Because of the pandemic, the tests which often bring together hundreds of young people in high schools had been canceled by the Ministry of Education.
Last year, continuous assessment accounted for at least 82% of the final exam mark.
Philosophy had been the only written test of that session (along with French for first year students).
A return to normality
Beginning of a return to normality in 2022. But not quite since the specialty tests, born of the baccalaureate reform decided by Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer and therefore never yet organized, have been postponed for two months.
The schooling disrupted by the health crisis and the load of programs for these specialties - the two "major" subjects chosen by each high school student in Terminale - raised fears that the students were not ready to take the written tests in March.
New system
The adopted calendar also means that the marks of the specialty tests are not taken into account in Parcoursup, the platform for admission to higher education, and therefore in the files examined by the establishments to which future graduates have applied.
Instead, the files will indicate the averages of specialties over the three terms of Première and the first two of Terminale.
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