End of suspense.
The Minister of National Education announced this Friday to the teachers' unions the postponement to May 11, 12 and 13 of the new baccalaureate specialty tests, initially scheduled for March 14 to 16.
Since the start of the school year in January, several unions and teachers' associations have been calling for the postponement of these written tests, which concern the two "specialties" chosen by high school students in Terminale as part of the baccalaureate reform, underlining the strong impact of the health crisis. on schools, and its procession of teachers and students absent due to Covid.
"Given the numerous and successive absences due to illness, the students find themselves in very different situations in terms of preparation", reads the press release from the ministry, and "the unchanged tests in March would therefore have led to ruptures of equality between candidates according to territories or personal situations".
Postponement of the specialty tests, Parcoursup will take into account the averages
Concretely,
the written specialty tests for the general and technological baccalaureate are postponed to May 11, 12 and 13
.
The so-called “evaluation of experimental capacities” tests will take place in the days that follow.
The program of the tests will be “the same”
and “the candidates will therefore not have more themes to revise, but only more time to work”.
The ministry specifies that in
the orientation procedure in higher education
, it will no longer be the marks obtained which will be raised but the “averages obtained by the candidates in these courses over the three quarters of the first class and the first two terms of the final class.
»
Several arrangements are also announced: "Each person, according to his specialty, will be able to have a choice of questions or exercises",
the two days preceding the tests "will be devoted to the revisions of the examinations"
and
the tests specific to the certificate of language level are cancelled.
Arrangements in PE and for oral French
With regard to the professional path, the ministry announces that
the duration of the training periods in the professional environment (PFMP) “will be reduced by two weeks”.
The physical education and sports tests during training, usually three in number, "could be reduced to two"
, and
for the anticipated oral French test, the number of texts to be presented orally will be reduced to 16 in the general track and to 9 in the technological track.
Read alsoThe calendar of specialty tests scheduled for March 2022
Two weeks ago, Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of the SNES-FSU, the first secondary school union, already explained to Parisian that the preparation for the specialty tests was very disrupted by the many cases of covid among the students: “We are not teaching. more to whole classes but to pieces of class.
One day we have half of the students, the next day a third, organizing a simple check under these conditions practically requires proposing 3 different subjects to take into account the absences of each other”.
On the high school student side, the president of the Voix lycéenne also underlined "a breach of equality between those who are isolated because of the Covid, and the others".
They have been heard.
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