The Ministry of National Education has announced the postponement of the 2022 baccalaureate specialty exams, this Friday, January 28, 2022. The new dates have already been set. Find the full schedule of exams in this article.
[Mis à jour le 28 janvier 2022 à 20h01] The news fell this Friday, January 28, 2022. The Ministry of National Education announced the postponement of the specialty exams for the baccalaureate. Initially scheduled for March 14 to 16, a new calendar has been communicated by the ministry: the tests will take place from May 11 to 13, 2022. Expected on the subject, Jean-Michel Blanquer has not yet spoken. A press release from the Ministry of National Education indicated that the decision was taken to ensure better equality of opportunity at the time of the tests. “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. The postponement was therefore recorded “in order to preserve equal treatment between candidates and to allow everyone to calmly prepare for these tests”.
In addition, the Ministry of National Education has announced several developments to “allow[e] thus allowing students to continue their preparation for specialty tests such as the philosophy test and the Grand Oral, without ever compromising their chances of success “:
- All the subjects will be laid out 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 the revisions of the examinations, the pupils of terminale having only their courses of specialty;
- The tests specific to the language level certificate are cancelled, exceptionally, for this year
The decision was taken following consultation with various stakeholders, including the National Council for High School Life, teachers’ unions and parent federations. If the students favored maintaining the tests on the scheduled date, the teachers campaigned for a postponement of the exams. Their voice was heard.
What are the dates of the 2022 baccalaureate specialty exams?
According to the initial calendar of the school year given by National Education, the baccalaureate specialty tests were normally to take place from Monday March 14 to Wednesday March 16, 2022. But a postponement has therefore been formalized. The tests will take place on Wednesday 11, Thursday 12 and Friday 13 May 2022.
In the Parcoursup file for high school students, the marks obtained in these two specialty tests should normally be taken into account. Given the postponement of exams, the Ministry of National Education has announced new terms. Instead, it is the averages obtained by the candidates in these lessons over the three terms of the first class and the first two terms of the final class that will be taken into account.
What are specialty exams?
Since the Bac reform, the S, ES and L streams no longer exist in high school. And the baccalaureate is no longer just written tests in all subjects concentrated in one week at the end of the year. From now on, the continuous assessment is taken into account up to 40% of the final mark and various tests (French, teaching of specialties, philosophy and great oral) make it possible to complete the evaluation at the end of high school.
The specialty tests correspond to the choice of three specialties made by each high school student in first year. In the final year, he only keeps two and takes written tests on them before the end of the year. The results are of significant importance. Weighted 16 each, they correspond to 32% of the final grade.
When choosing their specialties, students have the choice between: arts; history-geography, geopolitics and political science; humanity, literature, philosophy; literature and languages and cultures of antiquity; Foreign and regional languages, literatures and cultures; mathematics; digital and computer science; chemical Physics ; economics and social sciences; engineering Sciences ; Life and earth sciences.