• A rumor, which has gone viral on social networks, is considering a postponement of the baccalaureate exams which begin on Tuesday due to the heat wave hitting mainland France this week.

  • If the patent was indeed postponed for this same reason in 2019, the Ministry of National Education assures that this option was never considered for this session.

  • The Ministry of National Education does not have a dedicated protocol but offers instructions on its website to put candidates in the best conditions.

The brains of the 710,000 baccalaureate candidates will boil this week.

Probably more than in previous years.

This Tuesday, the first to go on the grill are the candidates for the professional baccalaureate.

From tomorrow, it is the candidates for the general baccalaureate who will embark on the philosophy test.

Finally, if it is maintained… A rumor that has gone viral on social networks suggests that all the exams for the week could be postponed due to the heat wave that is hitting the country.

Many rely on the example of 2019, when the college patent tests were postponed due to the heat wave.

And the candidates for the "bac" remember it well since most of them were concerned.

But is a postponement of the baccalaureate really possible?

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, the Ministry of National Education denies any intention to postpone the precious sesame tests for this year: “No postponement is under consideration for the 2022 baccalaureate. down on France, it should not last.

The Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, even undertook to shower the hopes of the last convinced, this Tuesday, at a press conference, explaining that his teams are "mobilized with the rectorates" and that the application of a few "common sense principles", will allow graduates to spend "the week in good spirits".

In other words: To your pens!

The ministry confirms that there is no heat wave protocol dedicated to examinations and prefers to refer to the general risk prevention plan of National Education.

There is therefore no temperature threshold, no minimum number of days of heat to postpone the baccalaureate, contrary to what some have been able to say on social networks.

In 2019, the decision was taken by Jean-Michel Blanquer, then minister, in consultation with the Ministry of Health, in view of the situation and the risks incurred for adolescents.

The baccalaureate more difficult to postpone than the patent

But we do not “manage the baccalaureate like we manage the college patent”, confides a source to the Ministry of National Education, “the baccalaureate takes on another importance, it is a key for higher education, we cannot put admissions to different schools on hold so easily.”

This same source adds that the public concerned is not the same: “Here, we are talking about young adults, some have odd jobs in which they are engaged, others have planned trips… All of this is to be considered.

Clearly, the consequences of a postponement are such that it would really take a huge blow from the thermometer to consider postponing the exams.

To provide high school students with acceptable conditions while they work, the ministry has drawn up a list of instructions including: Use the rooms least exposed to the sun, keep the blinds closed, cool the rooms by opening the windows at night, etc.

“Common sense” but insufficient instructions for Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of the Snes-Fsu teachers’ union: “Since 2019, we have been sounding the alarm.

We are acting urgently today.

But these heat waves are set to recur more and more often.

Rather than a heat wave protocol, efforts must now focus on buildings.

Insulation, revegetation, For the union, it is the entire park of schools, sometimes centenarians, which must be reviewed.

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