The Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, said he was in favor on Sunday of taking into account French mistakes in the marking of copies of the baccalaureate in the years to come, promising a “vast project” in this area.
The Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, said he was in favor on Sunday of taking into account French mistakes in the marking of copies of the baccalaureate in the years to come, promising a “vast project” in this area. Referring to copies of the baccalaureate often full of mistakes, he wants “the introduction of formal criteria in the tests about the level of French” during an interview on Radio J.
“From a certain level of language that is too problematic”, whatever the quality of the copy, it could not exceed a certain mark. Concretely, it would be “points less if you make mistakes in French”. “But that is only possible if we have worked so that the students no longer make mistakes,” said Pap Ndiaye, announcing a “huge project that goes from primary school to the baccalaureate so that they write properly”. Another project: “The reconquest of the month of June”, the reform of the ferry having reduced the third quarter to “a trickle”.
Modification of the school calendar
“We must ensure that the final year students work as they should until June,” he added. “We are working on several hypotheses: the question of the delay of the specialty tests, the modification of the coefficients (…) I will announce the decision in a few weeks”. The government is also considering a change in the school calendar, with a possible “reduction of holidays” and “more weeks of lessons” for students. A question that requires “a lot of work”, recognized the Minister of National Education, aiming for changes by the end of the five-year term.