The results of the 2025 baccalaureate were published, showing performances of the candidates in the grade of the past years. However, it should be discussed to what extent this exam keeps up with the times.
The results of the students at the BAC 2025, comparable to those of the past photo: I have
High school graduates have managed to achieve comparable results with those of previous years. The general promotion rate before the appeals is 74.3% (compared to 76.4%, before the appeals, at the 2024 baccalaureate), with a successful rate below the last year for the candidates in the current promotion (79.9% now, compared to 81.5%: June – July 2024) and one slightly over the one of 2024 for the previous ones (324 31.9% in 2024).
There are fewer average than 10 -24 at Baccalaureate 2025 compared to 39 in Baccalaureate 2024 -, but as a whole the results are comparable, Bloggerița Adevarul.ro, Gabi Bartic, executive director of the test platform brio.ro.
The discussion should instead go on, believes Bartic, because what represents the baccalaureate today, organized after a 1998 law, obviously outdated, influences admission to higher education.
“On paper they do not seem to be disastrous”
“Indeed, we look at the results of the baccalaureate exam and on paper they do not seem to be disastrous. This means we are in the line of past years. We have percentages of promotion, let’s say, very little different from the past years. Sure, a bit down, but the school step is decreasing. But I would rather go to the content of this exam and what purpose does this examination have. Because we have a baccalaureate exam that works according to a 1998 law, which radically changed the way the baccalaureate was given. So we have a baccalaureate that goes on a very old law. When that law was given, the baccalaureate had to establish the completion of the high school cycle, because then, for admission to the faculty, there were other exams. Now the role of the baccalaureate has changed, but we have not changed the exam ”, draws the attention of Gabi Bartic.
“The evaluation of only four disciplines makes no sense”
As soon as we use the baccalaureate examination as admission exam in higher education, it should be changed so as to test higher knowledge and skills, necessary for the future student, “And that would mean working transversely with information, being able to have critical reflection on information and so on.”explains Bartic.
What is succeeded in the present is the encouragement of students to a schematic, “template” approach, of the subject, for the dry reproduction of the memorized ones.
“If we had the courage to change the baccalaureate exam, I have the courage to bet that the entire high school education system would change, because we are very good at Teaching & Learning to the test, that is, adapting teaching and learning. XII. Gabi Bartic continued.
“Until we think of the student and what he needs, we will take the facade exams.”
A change in the baccalaureate, on the other hand, would come as a system shake, considers Gabi Bartic, but it is necessary because we will continue with a “facade” exam.
“Until we think of the student and what he needs, we will take the facade exams, as is the national evaluation, as is the baccalaureate. Nothing to help the student, just not disturb the system. What I hope is that, if we were still stuck in the extremely bushy framework, at least the courage to reform the baccalaureate to have it ”, Bartic claims.
Although a differentiated baccalaureate examination would be required, with differentiated routes, as the last framework plans published for the high school, which will become official in a few days, becomes impossible.
“At this moment we are in front of a very clear statement of the system that it is good and that we do not change, we better not disturb. I understand that this change would disturb everyone, from students to parents, teachers, but until we have the courage to realize that this baccalaureate, and in general the exams as we give them now, I confirm some bottomless shapes and some façade memoirs of some no. draws the attention of Gabi Bartic.
Hope, after announcing the framework plans that do not come with the expected change, is that the programs to be developed to help the student more.
“If I still left them with 15 subjects, at least to make the programs differently, so that they have not so much with so little depth and do less with greater depth, so that the child who is interested can be able to hope for a specialization. Now we only make the surface, we only retain the surface, however, how much we have to go. Devase because they do not have a solid, deep foundation.concluded Bartic.
