2023-06-26 08:11:08
Some 860,000 college students take the written exams for the national patent diploma on Monday June 26 and Tuesday June 27, in mainland France and in the overseas departments and regions. The general series concerns 777,214 candidates; and the professional series, 89,968 candidates, said a press release from the ministry.
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The written tests of French and mathematics take place on Monday, and those of history-geography and sciences (physics-chemistry, life and Earth sciences, technology) on Tuesday. The certificate, which attests to the knowledge and skills acquired at the end of college, at the end of the 3rd class, consists of a part of continuous assessment and final tests.
It is marked out of 800 points in total: 400 continuous assessment points and 400 final test points (French, mathematics, history-geography, science and oral). You have to get at least 400 points to get it. French and mathematics are assessed on 100 points, and history-geography and science on 50 points.
The oral test, held between mid-April and the end of the written tests, is assessed out of 100 points. Its main objective is to assess the quality of the oral expression of the candidates, who choose their subject. This can relate to the history of the arts (presentation of a pictorial work), an educational course (oral internship, for example) or interdisciplinary practical teaching.
Fifteen minute personal interview
This oral, set up in 2015, then in 2017 in its current form, takes the form of an individual interview of fifteen minutes (five minutes of presentation and ten minutes of interview).
Teenagers who pass the patent, whose ancestor (the BEPC) was created in 1947, are mostly 14 or 15 years old. It is therefore shortly before the end of compulsory education (16 years, in France). Its success does not condition the passage in 2nd. It had been removed in the early 1980s (it was obtained on the basis of continuous monitoring between 1978 and 1985) before being reinstalled.
Some 727,100 college students were admitted to the patent last year, a success rate of 87.5%, down 0.6 points from the previous year.
Last year, the patent had been marked by leaks of subjects, which had led the Ministry of National Education to use relief subjects for college students subjected to history-geography and science tests.
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