Education: Baccalaureate will lose credibility if work with threshold continues
Ali Salhi, former General Manager of the National Office for Exams and Competitions. Photo: Echorouk
National Education Ministry has adopted the threshold of lessons in the baccalaureate exam for years under the pressure of the students, who came out to the street and demanded the identification of the lessons’ list, former General Manager of the National Office for Exams and Competitions, Ali Salhi told Echorouk in an exclusive interview.
“If the work with the threshold continues, the baccalaureate graduation will inevitably lose its credibility.”
“Personally, i’m against working with the threshold in a fateful exam such as the Baccalaureate graduation. It has never been a solution to the problems at hand, and thus if working with it continues in the future, the BAC exam will lose credibility and value, on the grounds that the graduation, to this day, is recognized in all states and the Algerian pupil can register at any university with his/her graduation without being asked to provide an “equivalent” document to the Algerian baccalaureate graduation.”
“Draft procedure of conducting the baccalaureate in two phases, which has not seen the light remained locked in the Education Ministry drawers, as he proposed the need for programming first baccalaureate in the second year of secondary school to retain the marks that were obtained by the candidates, as to organize a second baccalaureate in the third year’s secondary for the basic modules, compared to pupils who received their lessons in the morning only, and support lessons should be organized during the evening by the professors. At the end of the year there is the collection of mark for two years and pupils who get 10/20 will succeed in the baccalaureate exam.”