the Parcoursup platform opens in a climate of uncertainty on the March bac exams

It’s the big day (and the beginning of the big stress) for high school students: final year students can start on Thursday, January 20 to select their choices of higher education on Parcoursup. They have until March 29 to make up to ten wishes (with the possibility of sub-wishes depending on the training), without having to classify them. They will then have until April 7 to complete their file and confirm these wishes.

For each wish, students must explain their motivation in a few lines. A “future sheet” will also be sent to universities and selective training, a document which contains the assessment of the teachers and the opinion of the head of the establishment. It is recommended, in order not to end up on the floor, not to make only one wish and not to apply only for selective courses.

The opening of the national post-baccalaureate admission platform is taking place again this year against a background of concern: candidates do not know whether their baccalaureate specialty exams, scheduled for March, will be postponed or not due to the Covid-19. 19. These specialty tests were born from the baccalaureate reform initiated by the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer. They are scheduled for mid-March and must count for Parcoursup.

If according to several sources interviewed by AFP, the postponement seems inevitable, the date of the tests between March and June is debated. While waiting for decisions from the Ministry which could be announced very soon, in high schools, teachers and especially students are concerned not to “not knowing which foot to dance on”. “We need to be told very quickly if we are taking the specialty tests in less than two months or not because even being a good student, it particularly stresses me out”, launches Ilyes, 17, in Terminale in a high school in Bagnolet in Seine-Saint-Denis. According to him, “evacuating these events would also allow us to focus on orientation in Parcoursup”.