Bac 2022: subjects, dates of the tests and progress

What are the subjects of the specialty exams in French Polynesia?

As high school students prepare to pass the first examinations of the baccalaureate 2022, from May 11 to May 13 with specialty lessons, those of French Polynesia have already started since these first events took place from May 4 to 6. The opportunity to discover the subjects fallen according to the specialties chosen.

• Students who have opted for physics and chemistry worked on the study of a “gravitational tractor to deflect an asteroid” or on the “synthesis of an ester with a floral smell”.
• In SVT, high school students had to analyze the “advantages and limitations of the two modes of plant reproduction”. They also had a choice on the subject of “mechanisms allowing a muscle to contract from a nervous message”;
• In History-Geography, Geopolitics and Political Science (HGGSP), the subject to be detailed related to “the action of human beings on their environment since the Neolithic era” or to choose from two dissertation subjects: “the conquest of space as an ideological and power issue” or “judging genocides and war crimes since 1945).
• In Economics and Social Sciences (SES), the pupils had to present their opinion on international and commercial exchanges, as well as on the “objectives of European competition policy in a composite test”.

Specialty lessons: when?

This year, the specialty tests start this Wednesday, May 11, and run until Friday, May 13, 2022 in mainland France, Reunion, and the West Indies-Guyana. In Mayotte, on the other hand, high school students will take the specialty lessons May 18, 19 and 20, 2022. Remember that these first exams for the 2022 baccalaureate have been postponed due to the Covid since they initially took place from March 14 to 16. The Ministry of National Education had decided to shift the dates of specialty lessons in order to avoid “breaches of equality between candidates according to territories or personal situations” due to Covid-19 and the repeated absence of many students. In addition, the so-called “experimental capacity assessment” tests will take place in the days that follow. Here are also the facilities for the specialty tests:

• All topics will be arranged so that everyone, according to their specialty, can have a choice of questions or exercises
• The two days preceding the tests will be devoted, in the establishments, to exam revisionsfinal year students having only their specialty courses;
• The tests specific to the language level certificate are cancelled, exceptionally for this year.

At last, “instead of the marks obtained by the candidates in the written specialty tests, the averages obtained by the candidates in these courses over the three quarters of the first class and the two first trimesters of the final class“, adds the ministry.

What are the dates for the 2022 baccalaureate?

Dates of the general and technological baccalaureate :

• The tests relating to the two specialty courses followed in the final class will take place on May 11, 12 and 13.
• Bac philo 2022. The philosophy test will be held on June 15, 2022
• Students will pass the Grand Oral between June 20 and July 1, 2022.

Dates of the professional baccalaureate:

• The written and practical tests on computer media will take place between May 23 and June 3, 2022;
• The general education written tests will be held between June 14 and 24, 2022;
• The professional tests are subject to a specific and variable calendar according to the specialty concerned.

Dates of the French baccalaureate 2022

Advance written French tests will take place on Thursday, June 16, 2022, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

The Grand Oral focuses on two specialty courses. During the 20 minutes of preparation for the Grand oral (first part of the test with a 5-minute presentation), students can take notes and use them for the speaking exercise. During the second part of the test (interview), “the candidate can use a support, such as a table, to illustrate or explain his remarks (to put an equation on it, sketch a map, etc.)”.

Bac and Covid: what arrangements for 2022?

• Vocational baccalaureate: For high school students who pass the professional baccalaureate, the duration of the professional training periods (PFMP) will be reduced by two weeks. Candidates will thus be able to have more time to prepare for their baccalaureate exams, which will retain the same format and the same program.
• Physical education and sport : controls during training, usually three in number, may be reduced to two when the consequences of the health situation on the availability of facilities or the preparation of students justify it.
• Advance oral French test in 1st general and technological: this year, the number of texts to be presented orally will be reduced to 16 in general and 9 in technological.

When will the baccalaureate results take place?

• In 2022, candidates will know whether or not they have graduated from the baccalaureatefrom Tuesday 5 July
• Replacement written tests will take place from Wednesday 7 to Friday 9 and Monday 12 September 2022 for the general and technological baccalaureates.

Bac 2022: what coefficients?

Final or anticipated tests

Of the 100 coefficients, 60 would be obtained in the context of anticipated tests or final tests:

• Advance examinations for the French baccalaureate at the end of first year (written, coefficient 5; oral, coefficient 5);
• The two tests for specialty lessons followed in terminale (coefficient 16 for each of them);
• The philosophy (coefficient 8 in the general route, 4 in the technological route);
• The Grand Oral Baccalaureate (coefficient 10 in the general route, 14 in the technological route).

Continuous control coefficients

40 of these coefficients would be obtained with continuous control calculated according to the student’s general average, which takes into account the averages for the year of the final cycle school report cards.

• All the disciplines of the common core which are not the subject of final tests (modern languages ​​A and B, history-geography, physical education and sports, scientific education for the general route, mathematics for the technological route) would have a coefficient of 6 (3 in 1st, 3 in terminal);
• Specialty education (abandoned at the end of first year) would have a coefficient of 8 (ie half of the specialty education retained by the candidate in the final year);
• Moral and civic education will have a coefficient of 2 (1 in première, 1 in terminale). It contributes to the acquisition of the values ​​of the Republic and secularism, and will thus be distinguished in the evaluation.

Are common assessments removed?

Yes, the Ministry of National Education wishes replace these joint assessments with “continuous monitoring more flexible, supporting learning and conducted within the framework of the class”. The equal treatment of pupils must nevertheless be preserved, in particular by disseminating national benchmarks to the teaching teams.

Continuous monitoring is based on the annual averages of the results obtained during the final cycle by candidates educated in public education and in private education under contract. It will also be taken into account as part of the Parcoursup orientation procedure.

“All optional courses would be assessed according to the same methods as part of continuous assessment established from the annual averages of the averages affixed to the school report cards” specifies the Ministry of Education. Thus, an optional course followed throughout the final cycle would be evaluated with a coefficient of 4which will be added to the 100 common coefficients for the 2022 baccalaureate. if the student follows an optional course only in the final year (such as law and the major challenges of the contemporary world, expert mathematics and complementary mathematics), the coefficient will be 2. Note that all optional courses cannot exceed more than 14 coefficients distributed as follows: 6 in first, i.e. 3 optional courses; 8 in terminale, i.e. 4 optional courses. “For example, a candidate having thus followed an optional course over the two years of the final cycle would be assessed on the expanded basis of 104 coefficients. The marks he would have obtained in this optional course would be considered in their entirety”, specifies the press release. .

The usual mentions are maintained this year. But from what grade do we get a mention in the baccalaureate ?

• Mention Fairly well for an average between 12 and 14
• Mention Bien : between 14 and 16
• Honors : between 16 and 18;
• Mention Very good with the congratulations of the jury for an average greater than 18.