Inspectors have not passed on Education Minister Édouard Geffray’s strict directives on written quality in 2026 Bac exam copies.
During an academic coordination meeting on 18 June, an inspector stated that copies showing imperfect mastery of spelling and syntax would not be penalised if the understanding of the argument was not affected. Around 500 history-geography correctors from the Paris, Versailles and Créteil academies took part in the videoconference.
In March, Édouard Geffray sent a service note to rectors and inspectors requiring that Bac and Brevet marks take written quality into account. On 7 May he told Le Figaro that pupils submitting poorly written papers could not receive good marks.
Excerpts from the academic meetings obtained by Le Figaro show that these instructions were not passed on uniformly to the correctors.
