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Draft Report on European Baccalaureate 2019
3.2. Additional written examinations

Article 13 of the Arrangements for implementing the regulations for the European Baccalaureate
establishes that candidates may be allowed to sit for an additional written examination of an option
subject and the conditions therefor.
Article 13 states that:

13.1 In particular cases, European School pupils in the final school year may register for the European
Baccalaureate in an additional option subject, whether or not they have attended lessons in the
subject in question at the School.
However, in the case of Music and Art, due to specific syllabus requirements, an additional exam
can only be applied for if the pupil has followed the subject or if he provides evidence of the prescribed
work done during s6 and s7 so as to ensure that the syllabus requirements are met. (…)
13.4 Only written examinations will be available (…)
13.4.2 The examination script will be corrected, in the same conditions as normal European Baccalaureate
examination scripts. (…)
13.5 The result in this additional written examination will not be included for the purposes of calculating
the final mark appearing on the candidate’s Certificate of European Baccalaureate Marks, but will be
shown on an Additional Examination Certificate signed by the Secretary-General of the European
Schools (…).

The graph below shows the evolution of requests for an additional written examination.

16 requests were received this year, 16 were accepted.

2 candidates finally withdrew their request before the examinations. Therefore, only 14 additional
written examinations were taken under article 13 at the 2019 EB session with an average mark of
6.93 and a success rate of 64.29%

Physics is this year the most popular subjects chosen (in 5 different languages) as an additional
examination.

Additional Written Examinations - Art. 13
12

10

8

6

4

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BI4 CHI ECO GEO L3 LAT MUS PHY ART
2019 2 3 9
2018 2 11 1 1
2017 2 10 7
2016 3 10 1 1 1 3
2015 1 11 1 1 1

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