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Gabriel Attal wants to remove academic corrections, which make it possible to artificially inflate secondary school exam grades. For the patent, this will completely change the results in certain academies. The failure rate will also increase.

Should we put an end to academic corrections, this process which consists of artificially inflating grades and which is commonly used in academies? Deleting it is part of the clash of knowledge desired by Gabriel Attal last December. Objective: more transparency and above all raise the requirements for the certificate and the baccalaureate. For the patent, this will considerably change the results of certain academies, as revealed by 

Le Figaro

 this Friday morning.

In the Créteil Academy, the success rate increased by six points

The daily obtained the results of the patent before and after this revision of notes. An operation carried out at each patent session by the rectorates to smooth the results at the national level and therefore raise the grades of the territories where the exams are least successful. And unsurprisingly, it is the Académie de Créteil which comes out on top. The patent success rate is inflated by almost six points. This means that normally, 82% of students have the certificate, but after adjusting the results, this rate increases to 88% in this academy. In Nice and Versailles, it increases by five points, in Limoges and Marseille by four points. But some rectorates do not use it or very little, such as in Paris, Amiens, Reims or Lyon.

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If we remove these academic corrections, more students will fail the certificate. Today, nearly 10% of students fail it. They can still move on to second grade, but this will no longer be possible in 2025 and without academic corrections, the failure rate should increase to around 20%, also due to the written tests which will count more than continuous assessment. Young people who fail the certificate will then be redirected to second year prep classes, a sort of bridge class towards high school to solidify their third year knowledge.