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Draft Report on European Baccalaureate 2021
4.3. 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 over
the last five years.

30 requests were received this year, 27 were accepted.

6 candidates finally withdrew their request before the examinations. Therefore, only 21
additional written examinations were taken under article 13 at the 2021 EB session with an
average mark of 6.84 and a success rate of 90.48%

As in the two previous years, Physics remains the most popular subject chosen (in 5 different
languages) as an additional examination.

Additional Written Examinations - Art. 13

16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
BI4 CHI PHY ART
2021 8 13
2020 5 6 14 1
2019 2 3 9
2018 2 11 1 1
2017 2 10 7

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