Guest of Europe Evening, Monday on Europe 1, the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer said he was "open to possible arrangements" for the 2021 edition of the baccalaureate, without however going to "full continuous control" . 

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A written philosophy test, a "grand oral" and… that's it.

This is currently what is planned for Terminale students who must pass the general and technological baccalaureate this year, while the Covid-19 epidemic is still raging in France.

The other subjects, counting for 82% of the final mark, must be assessed in continuous assessment.

"I remain open on the possible arrangements, but I still want that we do not go to full continuous monitoring," said the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, Monday on Europe 1. 

The National Union of High School Students (UNL), a union of high school students, had called for blockades in high schools from Monday to request that the bac be fully validated via the continuous assessment. 

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A word from the professor to point out "dead ends"? 

"We have already passed terminal examination subjects in continuous assessment," replied the minister, citing the example of "specialty lessons", which should have been the subject of table tests "in March".

"We are still going to evolve so that it is as favorable as possible for the students", he continues, evoking the possibility that the teachers "give a message to the student for the oral, to indicate the parts of the program which do not were not seen "because of the courses canceled during the health crisis. 

Other arrangements should be decided "so as not to trap the students", assures Jean-Michel Blanquer.

"I will receive high school organizations and trade unions all this week," he says. 

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"Preparing the future of the pupils" 

However, if he wants to maintain these tests, it is to "prepare the future of the students", insists the Minister of National Education. "I have often said that we took the baccalaureate not for the baccalaureate itself, but for what it will allow to succeed: we must train the students to positive things," he explains. "To write well in philosophy, to be able to express oneself orally…." So many skills that will serve them later, according to Jean-Michel Blanquer.