Morocco Baccalaureate 2024

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• Morocco Shifts Baccalaureate Exam Dates Due to Eid Al Fitr Holiday Overlap
  23 May 2019, by Said

  For those who had already set a reminder for the 2019 baccalaureate exam dates, know that the Ministry of National Education has made some changes to it.
  Initially scheduled for June 7 and 8, 2019, the exams have been changed in date because this coincides with the Eid Al Fitr holiday which could be celebrated in Morocco on Thursday, June 6.
  "The unified regional exam of the first year of the baccalaureate and the regional exam for free candidates, 2019 session, initially scheduled for (…)

• Morocco Reports 1,107 Cheating Cases in 2020 Baccalaureate Exams
  6 July 2020, by Sylvanus

  According to the Ministry of National Education, 1,107 cases of fraud were recorded during these two days of composition among the candidates in the "Letters, Humanities and Original Education" branch. Compared to the previous year, these cases of cheating are in sharp decline, a drop of 18%.
  The regional commissions will examine the minutes drawn up in order to apply the appropriate sanctions in accordance with the provisions of Law 02-13 on the repression of fraud in school exams.

• COVID-19 Patient Takes High School Exit Exam from Hospital Bed in Morocco
  10 July 2020, by Bladi.net

  While he was still hospitalized at the field hospital in Sidi Yahia Gharb, in the province of Kénitra, the young man, whose identity has not been revealed, was installed alone on Monday in a room set up for the occasion and equipped with surveillance cameras, reports Hespress.
  This room, which also has health security measures and equipment to facilitate the candidate’s work, is also equipped with a device to scan the candidate’s answers in the required confidentiality.
  At the end of the (…)

• Exam Cheating Ring Busted: Students Arrested for Selling High-Tech Devices in Morocco
  30 May 2019, by Amine

  Two young students were just arrested, on May 26, in the capital of Souss, Agadir, for an (illegal?) unusual sale: That of gadgets to cheat!
  The time of cheat sheets is over, it’s time for gadgets! Yes, gadgets to cheat during exams, Chinese-made gadgets. The Chinese economic monster does not miss any business opportunity as we can see. And it makes it known at the end of the world...
  Thus, two students, aged 25 and 26, have just been arrested precisely for doing business in this sector (…)

• Baccalaureate 2019: Morocco Sets Exam Dates, Addresses Teacher Strike Concerns
  26 April 2019, by Said

  The dates of the next baccalaureate 2019 exam sessions have just been confirmed by the Ministry of National Education during an intervention at the Chamber of Advisors.
  According to Saaid Amzazi, the baccalaureate exams will begin on June 12 for the first session, while the make-up session is scheduled to start on July 4.
  During his intervention, the minister also announced several measures to avoid a "blank year" following the strike movements of contract teachers who, despite several (…)

• Baccalaureate Exam Cheaters Face Steep Penalties: Up to 5 Years in Prison, Heavy Fines
  28 May 2019, by Kamal

  Law 2.13, validated in 2018 on the eve of the baccalaureate exams, is still in force, and imposes severe disciplinary measures against cheaters. Penalties can go up to 5 years in prison and 100,000 dirhams in fines.
  The law has considered all fraud schemes both inside and around the exam room, and has equipped itself with a legal arsenal that could deter any offender. Its objective is to enforce the regulations specific to the exams.
  A few weeks before the exams, the Regional Academies (…)

• Moroccan Teen’s Suicide Shocks Community Days Before National Exams
  4 July 2020, by Bladi.net

  A 17-year-old girl committed suicide in her home in Tifelt. She took her own life by hanging on the terrace of the parental home in El Amal.
  This tragedy, which occurred a few days before the Baccalaureate exam she was to take, has caused an uproar in the city of Tifelt. According to Barlamane, she was found at the scene of the tragedy hanging from a rope. For now, the reasons for this act remain unknown. The victim carried out her act without leaving a farewell note.
  Alerted, the local (…)

• Morocco’s Crown Prince Moulay Hassan Excels in Baccalaureate Exams at 17
  8 July 2020, by Bladi.net

  At 17 years old, the heir apparent has a baccalaureate in the Economics and Social Sciences stream, a year younger than his father in 1981. He took the exams in Skhirat in Rabat, in accordance with royal tradition.
  Alongside 9 of his classmates from the Royal College, he had taken the regional exam for the first year of the baccalaureate in a public high school in the capital, in Dar Essalam in Rabat in 2019.

• Morocco Sets Entrance Exam Dates for Medical and Pharmacy Programs
  26 June 2019, by Kamal

  A ministerial note, available on the official website of the Department of Higher Education and Scientific Research, has been addressed to the Presidents of private and partner universities, relating to the entrance exams for the Faculties of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, for the 2019-2020 academic year.
  The ministerial note "aims to strengthen equity and equal opportunities among all candidates by setting the conditions for access to the competitions, as well as the pre-selection (…)

• Morocco Launches Expedited ID Card Process for 2020 Baccalaureate Candidates
  17 May 2020, by Bladi.net

  Candidates for the 2020 baccalaureate in Morocco do not have to worry about the establishment of the national identity card. The General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) has announced the launch of an exceptional operation for the issuance of identity cards for their benefit from May 18.
  The issuance of identity cards is facilitated for candidates for the Baccalaureate 2020 in Morocco. It is an exceptional operation for the issuance of cards for the benefit of student candidates (…)