Baccalaureate success rate reaches 66.28% in Morocco this year

A total of 231,272 Moroccan students in public and private education have successfully passed the Unified National Baccalaureate exam this year.

132,258 female students have successfully graduated high school in 2022, said the Ministry of National Education in a statement on Friday,

The national success rate was 66.28%, compared to 68% for 2021.

The communication highlighted that the success rate of females constituted 70.87% of the total female students who passed this test, while the success rate of males was at 61.01% of the total number of students.

The Ministry indicated that more than 171,000 male and female candidates will pass the re-run.

He explained that the student Zaid Lahrousi, from the Regional Academy of Education and Training in the Casablanca-Settat region, in the course of physical sciences, obtained the highest grade at the national level, which is 19.44 out of 20.

The success rate for the international Moroccan baccalaureate was 73.2%, while this percentage was 54.60% for vocational baccalaureate courses.

A total of 348,931 students attended the exams for this session, with an attendance rate of 97.01%, compared to 323,022 female candidates who passed last year’s session, with an attendance rate of 95.15%.

The number of attendees not enrolled in high schools was 118,894, with an attendance rate of 59.73%. The number of candidates reached 36,582, with a success rate of 30.77%.

171,519  candidates, including 104,991 candidates and teachers, will take the re-sit exams on July 15, 16, 18 and July 19, 2022, with the results to be announced on July 22, 2022.

The Ministry congratulated all successful students for their well-deserved efforts, praising the strong involvement of mothers, fathers and parents in this important milestone in the educational path of their children.