THE QUESTION. The results of the 740,000 candidates were released on Tuesday. The success rate of the bac, even before the catch-up oral exams, is 13.7 points higher than last year: 91.5% against 77.7% in 2019. An exceptional vintage marked by the choice of control ongoing due to the coronavirus epidemic.
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For its part, the ministry had called, from the beginning of April, for a " spirit of benevolence ". But some observers go further. Thus, according to Sophie Vénétitay of Snes-FSU, the first of the secondary teachers' unions, " several notes from the bac, entered manually, did not correspond to those written on the school books but were in fact much higher ". Is this statement correct. Beyond that, how can we explain such a result in the baccalaureate, if not by a “ traffic ” of the baccalaureate notes?
CHECK. Even if we have to wait for the final rate on Friday (88% in 2019, already a record), the number of graduates will this year be the highest ever
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