Some higher education professors in charge of selecting Parcoursup files are surprised by the excellent marks and rave reviews given to a number of candidates.

Until wondering if the report cards would not have been inflated by the high schools to counterbalance a school year upset by the Covid-19.

How to assess the candidates' files on ParcourSup, when the majority of final year students were assessed during this year, upset by the health crisis, only by the simple continuous assessment?

Candidates will receive the answers to their wishes on Thursday, May 27.

But already most of the higher education professors have made the same observation: it is very complicated this year to decide between the candidates.

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"We have the impression that the high schools have increased the marks in an artificial way"

The notes that the higher education professors in charge of selecting Parcoursup files have in front of them this year, mostly resulting from continuous monitoring, are often overwhelming. What does not fail to question whereas the lessons were turned upside down by the epidemic, and often carried out at a distance. Some high school teachers even saw fit to add the mention "100% face-to-face" to favor their students when they were not in half-gauge.

HEC preparatory teacher at Saint-Michel de Picpus in Paris, Hugo Billard claims to have never seen that.

"We have the impression that high schools have increased the marks in an artificial way, with class averages of 16, 17 or 18 in almost all subjects, and appreciations which are all similar from one establishment to another", he points out to Europe 1.

A risk of social inequalities

"Much more than in previous years, the reputation of the establishments played a role in the files that we selected. We were forced to put aside a number of excellent files, because we did not have confidence in the way in which the evaluations had taken place, ”he says.

But by giving such weight to sending institutions in the selection of files, examiners also risk increasing social inequalities. Many teachers in the field of excellence are finally wondering if the level of the students will really correspond to their file, and if they will be able to follow correctly this first year in higher education.