beginning of the tests and first subjects in Polynesia, all dates

BACCALAUREATE. The 2022 baccalaureate has already started in Polynesia where the final year students have started working on the specialty tests. This 2022 baccalaureate will be the first to fully apply the baccalaureate reform, after two years marked by the pandemic…

[Mis à jour le 6 mai 2022 à 13h15] The 2022 baccalaureate started in French Polynesia, where final year students began the specialty tests on Wednesday, a major novelty for this edition of the baccalaureate. Among the very first subjects of this 2022 baccalaureate, we find in particular, in History-geography, geopolitics and political sciences (HGGSP), a reflection on “the action of human beings on their environment since the Neolithic”, but also work on “genocides and mass crimes since 1945” and on “space conquest as an ideological and power issue”.

The first subjects of the 2022 baccalaureate, falling in Life and Earth Sciences (SVT), relate for their part to the “advantages and limits of the two modes of reproduction of plants” (sexual and asexual), the mechanisms allowing a muscle to contract from a nervous message or on the role of cortisol, the stress hormone in the immune response in severe burn victims.

Let us mention among others some subjects of Economic and Social Sciences (SES), always for this 2022 baccalaureate in Polynesia. The seniors were invited to focus this time on a study of documents relating to international trade and the position of France in trade, in particular for manufactured products and textiles. Some students will have for their part worked on the “objectives of European competition policy in a composite test”…

Beginning of the bac on Wednesday in mainland France

In mainland France, the date of the first exams for the 2022 baccalaureate is a little later: the specialty exams will start on Wednesday May 11 and will continue until Friday May 13. This particular appetizer of the 2022 baccalaureate stems from the reform of the baccalaureate, which has been underway for several years now, but whose implementation has been delayed by the Covid crisis. For the first time this year, the baccalaureate will thus see a series of specialty tests in mid-May, then the inescapable philosophy test on June 15 before the great oral examination of the new baccalaureate at the end of June (see the baccalaureate dates in detail).

The 2022 baccalaureate calendar, if it is finally approaching the calendar of the new baccalaureate desired by Jean-Michel Blanquer from 2018, is not however completely free of the disruptions linked to the health crisis. The 2022 edition of the baccalaureate begins in fact later than expected, the dates of the specialty tests, which were to take place in March, having been postponed by two months because of the epidemic rebound at the start of the year.

Another novelty for this 2022 baccalaureate: the exam now mixes continuous assessment (for 40% of the final grade) and final exams (specialty exams, written and oral French, philosophy and major oral accounting for 60%).

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.

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

• For’physical education and sportcontrols during training, usually three in number, may be reduced to two (subject to the availability of facilities and the preparation of 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.

A postponement to May of the baccalaureate specialty exams

On January 28, the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer also announced a postponement of the specialty exams for the 2022 baccalaureate in May, instead of the initial dates in 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”.

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. 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 sciences
• 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 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.