PATENT 2022. How does the white patent work? What are the dates for passing the 2022 college certificate? What do we know about the oral? How is the result of the patent calculated? Linternaute.com tells you more.
[Mis à jour le 13 avril 2022 à 11h52] The passage of the 2022 college certificate takes place straddling the end of June and the beginning of July, over two days (see exact dates here). For school candidates, the tests for the national patent diploma consist of four written and one oral. They complete the evaluation of the level of mastery of the common base. For individual candidates, only five written tests count towards the mark. The college certificate is scored out of 800 points, and you must earn a total of 400 points to obtain it. (more than note details here).
During its previous edition, the college patent posted a success rate of 88%, a percentage that only changed slightly after the so-called “replacement” session in mid-September. Of the nearly 840,500 candidates who presented themselves at this session, 739,400 ninth-grade students obtained their diploma. A slightly lower rate (-2.4 points) compared to that of the previous year, which had been marked by total continuous control due to the coronavirus epidemic. In 2021, despite confinement in the spring, the students took the exam under normal conditions. The 2021 success rate should therefore rather be compared with that of the 2019 session, which amounted to 86.5%.
A sort of general rehearsal, the white patent allows students to prepare for the exam and the necessary instructions to follow.
For school candidates in an establishment, the oral test for the patent is organized within the establishment itself between April 15 and the last day of the written tests. The written examinations for the national patent diploma (DNB) will take place on Thursday June 30 and Friday July 1, 2022 for the normal session and Monday September 12 and Tuesday September 13, 2022 for the replacement session.
The patent defense oral test lasts 15 minutes. His goal ? Allow the candidate to present orally:
- be one of the objects of study addressed in the context of art history teaching
- or one of the projects carried out during the interdisciplinary practical lessons of cycle 4
- or one of the projects carried out as part of one of the educational paths followed (Future; citizen; health education; artistic and cultural education)
Why are we talking about a defence? As the website of the Ministry of National Education Eduscol specifies, the idea is to “evaluate the candidate’s ability to display the knowledge and skills he has acquired, in particular within the framework of the teaching programs of the history of the arts and of all the disciplines that will have contributed to nourishing this defence.”
Candidates have the choice between taking the test individually or in a group (of a maximum of three candidates), but they are, in all cases, assessed individually.
The oral is divided into two stages:
- a presentation (5 minutes)
- an interview with the jury (10 minutes).
NB: in the event of a collective presentation, 10 minutes of presentation precede 15 minutes of jury/group discussions.
The oral grade is divided into 100 points, as follows:
- Proficiency in oral expression (50 points)
- Mastery of the subject presented (50 points)
In the academies of metropolitan France, the written tests take place in the following order:
- written French (3 hours)
- mathematics writing (2 hours)
- written history-geography-moral and civic education (2 hours)
- written science (physics-chemistry, life and earth sciences, or technology – 2 out of 3 disciplines) (1 hour)
- foreign language writing for individual candidates (1 hour 30 minutes)
The patent is noted on 800 points, and it is necessary a minimum of 400 points to obtain it. Continuous assessment is taken into account in the grading, including projects carried out in class, like the EPI (Interdisciplinary Practical Teaching). The number of points per subject works as follows: 10 points for “insufficient” mastery; 25 points for “weak” skill, 40 points for “satisfactory” work and 50 points for “very good” skill. If the student has collected 50 points everywhere, he has accumulated the maximum possible for the continuous assessment part of the certificate, ie 400 points (as a reminder, this is half of the total points for the diploma).
The final tests therefore represent “only” half of the total scale of the patent each year. There are five, scored out of 400 points: the oral (scored out of 100 points), the written French and mathematics tests (scored out of 100 points each), as well as those in history-geography and moral and civic education. ; and science (each assessed on 50 points). It is possible to earn up to 20 more points if an optional option has been followed.
If there is no patent catch-up as is the case for the baccalaureate, a replacement test is planned in September, for individual candidates and those who could not be assessed by continuous assessment. Candidates admitted can only recover their official diploma at the start of the school year from their former college. An event is organized for the occasion, the republican certificate award ceremony, which “brings together the educational community and elected officials around the students who complete their common school career. It makes it possible to say the essential role of the school in the Republic and to congratulate the students who have obtained their first diploma. It shows the students who follow them in college models of success”, according to the Ministry of Education.
Each year, the results of the patent are revealed at the beginning of July, on dates which differ slightly according to the academies.
The lists of the last admitted to the DNB to date are all known. To view the latest college patent results, use the search engine below in order to find the name of a candidate, or use our interactive map below to display the lists of admitted candidates in a city or academy.