A total of 441,238 candidates will take the normal session of the baccalaureate for the year 2020, scheduled for July 3-9, the ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research announced.
The number of candidates enrolled in school is 318,917, of which 282,048 are enrolled in the public sector (64% of the total number of candidates) and 36,869 in the private sector (8%), while 49% of the candidates are female.
In addition, 249,338 students (57%) will take a scientific or technical baccalaureate during the normal session (i.e. an increase of 1.9% compared to last year). The literary branches and original education, come in second place, with a rate of 41%, i.e. 181,234 candidates (with a decrease of 3.3%), followed by the professional branches, with 10,666 candidates divided into 19 branches, i.e. an increase of 19.8%, compared to the session of 2019.
The international sections of the Moroccan baccalaureate -option French or English- will count 43,781 candidates, i.e. an increase of 75.27% compared to last year.
The number of candidates with disabilities and benefiting, according to their disability, from adaptation and correction formulas increased from 402 for the 2019 session to 539 this year, distributed among 11 branches of study.
Furthermore, in order to organize the unified national baccalaureate examination in the best possible conditions, the ministry has mobilized additional resources for the preparation of the tests, forming 178 commissions, comprising 1,040 members responsible for drafting 534 subjects, 228 persons for the technical team responsible for printing and reproducing the tests, 107 members of the reserve team, 91,143 supervisors and 31,281 markers.
In view of the special situation facing the Kingdom in the light of the new coronavirus, and in order to guarantee the health safety of candidates, educational and administrative staff and all stakeholders, 2,155 examination centres have been mobilized, compared with 1,500 in 2019, divided into 100 covered rooms, 145 lecture theatres and 1,910 schools, with a limit of 10 candidates per room.
In addition, 371 centres will be mobilized for the correction of tests in the various provincial directorates and 46 examination centres in penal establishments, divided into 107 rooms for some 856 candidates.
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