The Ministry of Higher Education put online on Wednesday a modified version of the calendar of competitive exams for grandes écoles, with tests organized from June 20 to August 7. Recommendations are also made on the general organization of end-of-year evaluations.

Coronavirus crisis and confinement oblige, the calendar of the entrance exams to the grandes écoles has been modified: this year, the tests will take place from June 20 to August 7, as announced by the Minister of Higher Education, Frédérique Vidal, on Europe 1 last week. On Wednesday, the ministry detailed this calendar, sector by sector (business schools, ENS, engineering schools, etc.), on a dedicated page of its site.

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Many tests at the end of June

The majority of these written tests will take place in the last days of June, or even at the beginning of July, to allow the juries to meet and deliberate at the end of July and the beginning of August. Find out below the calendar of events.

In addition, on end-of-year assessments in higher education, the ministry recommends "reducing the use of face-to-face tests as much as possible by simplifying exam and competition procedures", with the organization of assessments if possible remotely, "based on continuous monitoring or using homework".

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Oral advised against

"The organization of oral tests is not recommended," adds the ministry, which warns against "outright neutralization of the current semester or its automatic validation" and recalls that "all tests in the classroom must meet rigorous organizational constraints to ensure the health security of students, but also supervisors and staff mobilized in support. " These constraints will be communicated at the end of April.