This year, the baccalaureate tests are closely monitored. With more sophisticated communication tools such as connected watches or mobile phones, examiners have the instructions to be very vigilant against possible fraud.
The baccalaureate tests started this Monday, June 16 with a firm instruction: “mobile phones and turned off objects, necessarily in the bags”. An instruction that will be displayed in the examination rooms for the duration of the bac tests. It must be said that cheating has increased in recent years. Last year, the increase in cheat cases during the bac tests was 14%. Among these 14%, the use of new technologies, smartphones, tablets, Connected watches or other devices that allow the constitution of files, has been used by more than half of cheaters (52%), reports France Info.
The news channel thus recounts the case of Mathilde, which, two years ago during its test in history-geography, tries to use its connected watch to make part of the exercise. She testifies thus: “I went to the bathroom and sent a message to my mother on my connected watch, asking her to find the dates that I lacked. She sent me everything, and in the end it allowed me to have 14/20.”
What does a student cheat who cheat on one or more bac tests?
In the event of a blatant offense during the event, the room supervisor intervenes, explains the regional daily Paris-Normandy. The person caught in the bag can continue the test. In this case, the room supervisor collects all the rooms that make it possible to establish the facts. Then, a report is drawn up. The document can be signed by the person who has cheated. The whole is then transmitted to the rector of the academy concerned. It is he who decides Ultimately, Either abandon the prosecution, or to seize the disciplinary committee of the bac or to convene the fraudster if he plans to sanction it by a blame or a deprivation of mention to the diploma.