Rabat – The Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education, and Scientific Research announced that 212,169 Moroccan students have passed the exam in the June session.
The statistics represent a passing rate of 65.55%.
The pass rate has increased by 8 % from last year’s 57.36%.
441,065 candidates sat for the normal session of the Baccalaureate exams which took place from June 11 to 14 with.
Retake exams will take place on July 4-8.
The ministry said in a statement that the total number of female students who passed the exam was 121,673, representing 57.35 % of the overall number of successful candidates.
The highest score in the baccalaureate exam is 19.40 out of 20 and was recorded in the Rabat-Sale Kenitra region.
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Last year the highest grade in the country was 19.44 in the branches of physics and French literature in the region of Marrakech-Safi.
The number of baccalaureate candidates who will be allowed to retake the exam is 134,874.
There were 441,065 baccalaureate exam candidates this year, compared to last year’s 440,000 students.
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