new specialty tests, grand oral… Key information

The specialty tests launch, on May 11, the first part of the sprint of the final tests of the 2022 baccalaureate, after the continuous assessment marathon. These take place for the very first time. Dates of the tests, arrangements in the face of the Covid, great oral… Here is the key information.

[Mis à jour le 2 mai 2022 à 18h04] From its specialty tests organized for the first time to the great oral of the new baccalaureate, through the adaptations of tests linked to the Covid… The 2022 edition of the baccalaureate has many subtleties. Starting, therefore, with those of the specialty tests, postponed for two months because of the epidemic crisis. They therefore take place in mid-May, from Wednesday May 11 to Friday May 13 more precisely. As for the rest of the final races, it runs in the second half of June (see the exact dates here).

From now on, the “baccalaureate grade” mixes 40% continuous assessment and 60% final exams (specialty exams, written and oral French, philosophy and the grand oral). Continuous control and calculation of the result, dates and nature of the tests, baccalaureate result 2022 or even key stage of the catch-up and its orals… In this special page, Linternaute.com lists you the key information of the 2022 edition of the baccalaureate to see more clearly.

The baccalaureate and high school reform put in place by the government began to be applied in schools during the back to school school in September 2019. As for the first baccalaureate truly impacted by the reform, it took place in 2021. The First also began in January 2020 their “E3C”, or common continuous assessment tests for the 2021 baccalaureate.

► More information on “E3C”

► More information on the baccalaureate and high school reform

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

New coefficients are taken into account for the general baccalaureate following the reform of the baccalaureate.

► I consult the coefficients of Première on Le Figaro Etudiant

► I consult the coefficients of Terminale on Le Figaro Etudiant

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

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.

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.

► Consult the timetables for the specialty tests on the website of the Ministry of Education

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 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.

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”.

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 this 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.