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Draft Report on European Baccalaureate 2020

6 Extraordinary session in September

At its meeting of 15-17 April 2020 the Board of Governors decided with respect to the
European Baccalaureate session 2020 the following:

- Candidates who request it will be allowed to sit the written and oral examinations in
total in an extraordinary session. Once starting these exams session, the previously
obtained final European Baccalaureate marks will not be any longer valid.
Alternatively, the candidate may request to repeat the year 7.

After the publication of results by the schools in June, 28 students decided to sit in total the
European Baccalaureate examinations of this extraordinary session in September. Out of
these 28 students, 9 had succeeded in June but wanted to improve their obtained final mark.
The other 19 students had failed and wanted to try it again.
During the summer some of these registered students decided to withdraw (most of the cases
because found a place at the university wanted) or did not show up at the first examination on
st
1 September. As a consequence, only 19 out of 28 students started the extraordinary
session. Two of these did not complete the whole session, so only 17 students finished in total
the session (all the written and oral examinations).

Out of these 17 students, only two had succeeded in June and wanted to improve their marks.
Only one of them achieved it. Out of the remaining 15 students who showed up and had not
got their diploma in June, 4 students successfully obtained it.

Some features regarding the students that completed the extraordinary session:

Extraordinary session of the European Baccalaureate 2020 (September)

Registered 28
Number of registered candidates who failed in June 19
Number of registered candidates who passed in June 9
Withdrawn 11
Participated and completed the session 17
Passed after the extraordinary session having failed in 4
June
Passed again and improved the mark obtained in June 1
Passed again but not improved the mark obtained in June 1
Failed due to withdrawal during the session having passed 1
in June
Failed again after the extaordinary session 11
Success rate 35.29%

Fail rate 64.71%
Overall Average for the Preliminary Mark 58.2
Overall Average for the Final Mark (in September) 59.34
Overall Average for the Final Mark (in June) 57.97

The average final grade of the students who sat the extraordinary session in September shows
that this was only 1.37 points higher than in June.

For completing this session 85 written and 51 oral examinations were organized. The
registered students belonged to 8 schools (UCC, WOL, LUX, MOL, MAM, MUN, *CUL and
*BRI).

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