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BACCALAUREATE 2022. D-Day has arrived! The seniors are starting to work on their final exams for the bac 2022 this Wednesday, May 11. Here is the key information for the first baccalaureate applying 100% of the baccalaureate reform.

[Mis à jour le 11 mai 2022 à 07h15] They had been postponed for two months because of the Covid-19 health crisis. The first final exams for the 2022 baccalaureate, the specialty exams, begin on Wednesday May 11 in mainland France, and last until Friday May 13. New final control tests were instituted by the baccalaureate reform of 2018, but their implementation was suspended for a time by the Covid crisis. For the very first time this year, therefore, the baccalaureate will therefore have a series of specialty tests in mid-May, the traditional philosophy test on June 15… and the new baccalaureate’s grand oral at the end of June (the baccalaureate dates in detail here). The revamped bac exam now mixes, as a reminder, 40% continuous assessment and 60% final tests (specialties, written and oral French, philosophy, grand oral).

The 2022 baccalaureate has already started… in French Polynesia, where they took place a week ahead of the start of the baccalaureate exams in mainland France, from Wednesday May 4 to Friday May 6. Among the first subjects of the 2022 baccalaureate on which the students worked 16,000 kilometers from France, we find, among other things, in physics and chemistry, the study of a “gravitational tractor to deflect an asteroid” at the “synthesis of an ester with a floral odor”; in life and earth sciences (SVT), the “advantages and limits of the two modes of plant reproduction” (sexual and asexual) or even “the mechanisms allowing a muscle to contract from a nervous message “; when in History-Geography, Geopolitics and Political Science (HGGSP), the candidates have for example had to work on “the action of human beings on their environment since the Neolithic” or “the conquest of space as an ideological and power issue”. In Economics and Social Sciences (SES), still for this 2022 baccalaureate in Polynesia, the final year students notably had to look into international trade and France’s position in trade, as well as the “objectives of European policy of competition in a compound event”.

The dates of the 2022 general and technological baccalaureate exams are spread out between Wednesday 11 May and Friday July 1, 2022. The tests which relate to the two specialty courses take place from May 11 to 13, following their two-month postponement to adapt to the Covid health crisis. The philosophy test takes place on June 15, and that of the grand oral, between June 20 and July 1. As for the vocational baccalaureate exams, they must take place between May 23 and June 24, 2022.

• Wednesday 11, Thursday 12 and Friday 13 May: specialty tests
• Wednesday, June 15, morning: philosophy tests
• Thursday June 16, 2022, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.: advance written French tests
• Monday June 20 to Friday July 1: grand oral test

For the general and technological baccalaureate, the written French tests in first class taken in advance take place on Thursday June 16, 2022 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The date of the French oral exam is set by each academy, generally in the wake of the written tests.

On January 28, the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer announced a postponement of the specialty exams for the 2022 baccalaureate in May, instead of the initial dates of March. Instead of taking the specialty tests from March 14 to 16, final year students are working on it from May 11 to 13 (more details here). “Given the numerous and successive absences due to illness, the pupils find themselves in very different situations in terms of preparation. Maintaining the tests unchanged in March would therefore have led to breaches of equality between candidates depending on the territories or situations. personal,” the ministry said in its January 28 statement. The objective of the postponement is therefore “to preserve equal treatment between candidates and to allow everyone to calmly prepare for these tests”.

In a health context marked by an active circulation of the Omicron variant, the Ministry of Education also formalized on January 28, 2022, by means of a press release, the following adjustments to the passage of the 2022 baccalaureate:

• For’physical education and sportthe checks during training, usually three in number, may be reduced to two (subject to the availability of the facilities and the preparation of the students, in connection with the health crisis)
• In terms ofadvance oral French test in 1st general and technological, the number of texts to be presented orally will be reduced to 16 in general and 9 in technological. “The specific timetables for the tests of individual candidates, set at the academic level, will be adapted to take this situation into account”, further specifies the ministry in its press release.
• On the professional path, the length of the on-the-job training periods (PFMP) will be reduced by two weeks. “This measure will also allow candidates to devote more time to preparing for the tests, which will retain the same format and the same program,” adds the ministry.

The baccalaureate and high school reform put in place by the government began to be applied in schools during the back to school September 2019 school year. As for the first baccalaureate truly impacted by the reform, it took place in 2021. well in 2022 that we will be able to take the real measure of the reform of the baccalaureate with an almost entirely renewed edition.

As specified by the Ministry of Education on his site“The baccalaureate diploma is issued, in the general and in the technological path, in view of the results obtained by the candidate, on the one hand to final tests which represent 60% of their overall markand on the other hand to the evaluations organized during his schooling in first and final classes as part ofcontinuous control which represents 40% of their overall score.”

The specialty tests are part of the final tests that complete the continuous assessment of the new baccalaureate. In the final year, each high school student has two specialties of his choice. Each specialty test is scored on a coefficient of 16. The specialty tests correspond to 32% of the final mark (out of the 60% of non-continuous assessment). The specialties are:

• Arts
• History-geography, geopolitics and political science
• Humanity, Literature, Philosophy
• Literature and languages ​​and cultures of Antiquity
• Foreign and regional languages, literatures and cultures
• Math
• Numerical and computer science
• Chemical Physics
• Economics and social sciences
• Engineering Sciences
• Life and earth sciences

It is rated coefficient 10 in the general stream and coefficient 14 in the technological stream. The high school students worked on this test for the new baccalaureate for the first time during the 2021 session. The grade for the grand oral is based both on the candidate’s knowledge, transmitted during his presentation, and on his general expression. The grand oral is spread over 40 minutes:

• a preparation time of twenty minutes to prepare the answer to his question
• a passage time of twenty minutes including:
  • five minute presentation
  • then ten minutes of jury / candidate interview on the selected subject
  • and finally five minutes of discussion around the candidate’s orientation project.

For the written exams

For the general baccalaureate, the student works on a text commentary or on an essay. The test lasts 4 hours. It is scored out of 20 points. At the level of the technological baccalaureate, the duration and the notation are the same, but the tests differ in part (contraction of text, essay.

For the oral

This general and technological baccalaureate test consists of two parts, with a preparation time of half an hour beforehand.

• First part of the test (12 minutes, scored out of 12 points):
• preparation of the text validated by the examiner
• reading the text aloud
• linear explanation of a passage of about twenty lines
• answer to a grammar question on the text

• Second part of the test (8 minutes, scored out of 8 points):
• presentation of the work chosen from those studied in class

Who says new baccalaureate in 2022, also says new coefficient for each test. Certain specialties evaluated in continuous assessment for the final year can reach coefficients of 16, when the great oral passes to the coefficient 10, the philosophy to the coefficient 8, French (final tests of first) and EPS (continuous control in terminale) to the coefficient 5 and the E3C at 2.5. To know in detail these new coefficients for the general baccalaureate following the reform of the baccalaureate, follow the links below.

The one-off evaluations of free candidates have the role of replacing the continuous assessment instituted by the new reform of the Bac. The tests in question cover the following lessons:

• history-geography and modern languages ​​A and B in general and technological tracks
• science education for the general track
• mathematics for the technological path
• specialty education is not subject to a final test

What is their date? How to consult them? How are they taken into account by Parcoursup ? Or how are the catch-ups organized for those who did not get their baccalaureate on the first try? The answers in our special page.

Officially called “second group events”, the remedial process is intended to all candidates whose average is between 8 and 9.99/20 at the end of the first session of the baccalaureate. Each candidate must choose two tests to retake to recover a maximum of points, at the same coefficient as in mid-June. The students submitted to the remedial session are fixed at the beginning of the week following the results of the baccalaureate, the repechages taking place in the days following the result of the 1st group. The precise dates and times of the remedial orals are traditionally communicated to the candidate at his place of examination, after having chosen the subjects to be retaken. The 2022 baccalaureate remedial orals are taking place from Wednesday 6 to Friday 8 July 2022.