Down slightly. Some 727,100 college students were admitted to the patent in 2022, a success rate of 87.5%. This represents a decrease of 0.6 points compared to the previous year, according to the provisional results published Monday, July 11 by National Education. In detail, nearly a quarter of the candidates (24.4%) obtained the mention very well, 22% the mention well, 20.7% fairly well and 20.4% were received without mention.
The general series, which concerns 91% of registrants, shows the highest success rate, with 88.7% of winners, down 0.4 points compared to 2021. Among candidates in the professional series, 76, 4% took the exam, a rate down 1.9 points. In his press release, the Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, “congratulated the students and their teachers and thanked all the staff who contributed to the smooth running of this session”.
The college patent is scored out of 800 points in total, which break down between 400 continuous assessment points and 400 final test points (French, mathematics, history-geography, moral and civic education, science and oral). You have to get at least 400 points to get it.
Last year, the pass rate for this exam dropped by 2.4 points to 88%. In 2020, a year disrupted by the Covid where only continuous monitoring had been taken into account, the success rate had risen to 90.5%. It had been 86.5% in 2019, 87.1% in 2018 and 89% in 2017.