The dumpling!
This Thursday afternoon, several hundred thousand candidates for the advance French baccalaureate exams worked on… relief topics, and not on those initially planned.
Blame it on human error.
On Wednesday, in an examination center – obviously in Seine-et-Marne – hosting the philosophy test, the staff inadvertently distributed the subject of… French to a few dozen aspiring baccalaureate holders, the entourage tells us. of Pap Ndiaye, the Minister of National Education.
A proper leak.
"After a few minutes, the students realized it and reported it to the people who supervised the test", says one rue de Grenelle.
The philosophy subjects were finally distributed to them.
In the process, the heads of establishments of the almost 3,000 examination centers in France received the French replacement subject by email and had it printed quickly, between Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon.
That is, in all, more than a million official sheets.
"As there was a leak of the subject, for reasons of suspicion of a breach of equality between candidates for an exam, we have initiated the usual procedure", we still inform the Ministry of National Education.
Already the case in philosophy in 2017
Note that this is not a first: in 2017, it was the subjects of philosophy - at that time the queen test of the baccalaureate - which had leaked, forcing the authorities to react by launching the printing of relief subjects.
A situation that remains rare: the process of printing and storing the subjects of the king's exam in France is extremely codified and secure.
Printed in the spring, they are then put in a sealed envelope, transported to secondary schools in an unmarked vehicle and then placed in safes by the heads of establishments.
When all is well, the sealed envelopes are only opened on the day of the exam, in front of the candidates.
Finally, what if the backup subject was also leaked?
“We have a third option, assures the Ministry of National Education.
If this were to happen, we have the subjects of the replacement session available in September
(dedicated in principle to candidates unable to floor during the June sessions, due to illness for example)
”.
