The announcement of the dates to which the students will pass their two specialty tests, scheduled for March, is long overdue and impatience rises in high schools.
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What date will the students in Terminale will pass their two specialty tests for the baccalaureate? The reform of Jean-Michel Blanquer enters its fourth year of application, and the question of the calendar of these two national tests, with 32 % of the student bac note, is pending.
Canceled in 2021 because of the COVID-19, pushed back and set up in 2022 for the same reason, they never took place in mid-March, as provided for in the reform. This year, the threat of the pandemic has moved away, but the calendar is not acted. It is a sentence from the Minister of National Education in A given interview , August 26, which Throwned doubts among Terminale teachers. Pap Ndiaye explained that he wanted to “shift” these tests a little, whose organization in March poses many teaching constraints and difficulties to teachers.
Rue de Grenelle confirms that a reflection is underway, that the test calendar is “in discussion with the Ministry of Higher Education” and will be “soon” known. For the ministry, the ambition to respect the spirit of the reform and to allow the taking into account of these notes in Parcoursup – whose calendar has not been communicated either – remains central, according to the exchanges reported by teacher associations. In this case, the room for maneuver to shift the tests without upsetting the calendar of the platform “are almost nonexistent”, notes Sophie Venetitay, secretary general of SNES-FSU.
“Disastrous effects morally and Professionally “
Organizing BAC tests in April is particularly complex due to the spread of Easter holidays all month in the three areas. Shopping them in May would leave more time to teachers and their students to move forward and progress, but that would imply delaying the process of examining the files for the superior and would reject the response phase late in the summer .
Only remains the possibility of moving the tests of one or two weeks, at the end of March. But teachers’ unions insist on a constraint that remains: the teachers, who are in the middle of their year and continue to take lessons during this period, must have time to correct the exam. “In 2022, we had three weeks, and they were necessary,” said Sophie Venetitay. This would then imply a slight gap in the Parcoursup calendar, the study phase of files generally starting in early April.
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