of proofreaders claim that certain notes have been increased without their agreement

“In my discipline, all the notes took a point”, testifies a professor of history and geography on social networks. Like him and while the candidates work, Thursday, May 16 on the French baccalaureate exams, many correctors of the specialty exams express their dismay after discovering that the marks assigned to certain copies were then raised without their knowledge. . An action facilitated by the digitization of corrections. Now, a note can be edited with just a few clicks for an entire batch of copies.

Each year, a harmonization of grades is carried out in order to reduce any differences in grades between the batches of the different correctors. But this practice “must be done at the time of the correction by the correctors themselves, under the supervision of the inspectors”, specifies Éric Nicollet, representative of the SUI-FSU, the union of inspectors. “Today, we have a computer system which allows us, after the correctors have stopped the notes, to modify them again, explains Eric Nicollet.

“From our point of view, it is a matter of a breach of trust between our inspectors and the teachers, the teachers correcting the copies. On the other hand, there is the fear that these practices could become generalized to the ‘coming.”

Éric Nicollet, representative of the SUI-FSU

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The SUI-FSU representative fears that this process could “then allow drifts, perhaps towards instructions for displaying notes that would depend on strategic choices, more political choices. We absolutely want to protect ourselves from these possible drifts.”