Europe 1 with AFP 6:31 p.m., July 11, 2022
Some 727,100 college students were admitted to the patent in 2022, a success rate of 87.5%, down 0.6 points from the previous year, according to provisional results published Monday by National Education.
The general series, which concerns 91% of registrants, shows the highest success rate, with 88.7% of winners, down 0.4 points compared to 2021.
Some 727,100 college students were admitted to the patent in 2022, a success rate of 87.5%, down 0.6 points from the previous year, according to provisional results published Monday by National Education.
In detail, 24.4% of the candidates obtained the mention very well, 22% the mention well, 20.7% fairly well and 20.4% were received without mention.
The general series, which concerns 91% of registrants, shows the highest success rate, with 88.7% of winners, down 0.4 points compared to 2021. Among candidates in the professional series, 76, 4% took the exam, a rate down 1.9 points.
Pap Ndiaye, "congratulated the students and their teachers"
In this press release, the Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, "congratulated the students and their teachers and thanked all the staff who contributed to the smooth running of this session".
The college patent is scored out of 800 points in total, which break down between 400 continuous assessment points and 400 final test points (French, mathematics, history-geography, moral and civic education, science and oral).
You have to get at least 400 points to get it.
Results distorted over the past two years by the Covid
Last year, the pass rate for this exam dropped by 2.4 points to 88%.
In 2020, a year disrupted by the Covid where only continuous monitoring had been taken into account, the success rate had risen to 90.5%.
It had been 86.5% in 2019, 87.1% in 2018 and 89% in 2017.
The patent, whose ancestor (the BEPC) was created in 1947, is a diploma which attests to the knowledge and skills acquired at the end of college, at the end of the third class, according to the title of the Ministry of l 'Education.
Passed by adolescents who are mostly 14 or 15 years old, it is therefore located shortly before the end of compulsory education (16 years in France).
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