You can get your baccalaureate without having the average at the start. We explain to you how it is possible.
The baccalaureate… If it no longer seems to represent the same symbolic weight as before (recent testimonies from young people place obtaining the permit well before that of the baccalaureate in the rites of passage which they consider to be the most important! ), this sesame remains crucial. The school leaving examination is now 215 years old and many more or less proven theories circulate around its attribution. All the more so with the approach of the formalization of the verdict of the baccalaureate, on July 4, for the some 700,000 candidates for this session in mainland France and in the overseas departments.
Among the gossip about the baccalaureate, we regularly find the idea that “To have 10.01/20 is to have a ‘given’ baccalaureate”. And this rumor turns out to be quite true. Following the stage of the correction of copies by the professors, grade harmonization commissions they gather. They are made up of teacher-correctors and are chaired by one of the teachers, under the responsibility of an inspector who supervises several juries.
As Mathieu Mahéo, French teacher at the Anita Conti high school in Bruz (35) and Academic Secretary of the SNES-FSU Bretagne, recently told France 3 Regions, “the idea is to see if there is There is not too much difference between the establishments. We also check whether a corrector is very far from the average of the marks awarded by the jury to which he belonged when he received his copies to be corrected. If there is a significant difference, we readjust.”
We can upgrade a 9.2 to 10 to avoid the repechage
After examination of the more or less favorable academic record, a few points or hundredths of points may be awarded to certain candidates. We generally give a “boost” to high school students whose grade is below but close to the average, by raising them just above 10/20, which avoids them having to catch up. And the note then assigned is the famous “10.01”. On a case-by-case basis, the harmonization jury can go so far as to upgrade a 9.2 to a 10, for example, to avoid the repechage.
Please note that this does not mean that all students who narrowly exceed the average in their final baccalaureate mark have benefited from this boost. This system also works for candidates close to 8/20 and with favorable school records, possibly allowing them to access the remedial session. As well as for the attribution of mentions.