Are there fewer graduates this year?

In any case, this is the trend that emerges according to the Minister of Education.

The results of the baccalaureate published on Tuesday "indicate a drop compared to previous years", announced, Pap Ndiaye, during a trip to the Max Dormoy high school in Champigny-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne).

“The first trends indicate a drop compared to previous years, because this is the first real year of the bac reform which is not hampered by the health crisis”, underlined Pap Ndiaye.

“It thwarts those who said that continuous monitoring would give extraordinary results.

The new baccalaureate remains an important exam, ”he added to journalists on the sidelines of this visit, during which he discovered with students the results of the general baccalaureate in this high school.

"The old bac should not be mythologized"

Since its reform in 2019, the baccalaureate mark is based 40% on continuous assessment and 60% on final tests (written and oral French, passed in Première class, philosophy, specialty tests and the grand oral , passed in Terminale).

“Continuous monitoring exists in most countries of the world” and “is the subject of work” which shows “that it is fair”, underlined the minister.

For him, "the old bac should not be mythologized" as "a time when everything was going wonderfully".

“We forgot that the old devices were not devices that worked perfectly for equality,” he continued.

“We are attentive to the situation, without turning back”.

Official figures to come

The official figures for the baccalaureate pass rate will be published on Tuesday evening.

The baccalaureate pass rate has exceeded 80% since 2012.

Last year, nearly 94% of candidates passed the exam that gives access to higher education.

They were 93.7% all sectors combined (compared to 95% in 2020 and 88% in 2019).

For the general baccalaureate alone, the success rate was 97.5% (93.9% in the technological path and 86.6% in the professional path).

Full proofs after two years of Covid

This year, the tests for the new general baccalaureate (for which students choose two specialty courses) took place in full, for the first time after two years disrupted by the Covid.

The two specialty tests taken by each candidate, however, had to be postponed from March to May and adjustments were decided due to the health crisis.

Correctors of these tests said in mid-June that certain marks had been increased without their agreement.

A beginning of controversy followed, swept away by the ministry, which assured that “there were no national instructions to raise the notes”.

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