Tunisian Baccalaureate

The Tunisian Baccalaureate, or Examen National du Baccalauréat, is a standardized test that was founded in 1891, a decade after the beginning of the French colonization of Tunisia (1881–1956).

[1] Students who successfully complete the baccalaureate are assured a place at a university, but not always to study their chosen subjects.

The baccalaureate is both a school leaving and a university entrance examination, and the success rate is lower than for other tests of this type; on average, 60 percent of students who take it do not pass.

[3] While possibly not as intensive as the French Baccalauréat, in which the written component alone usually involves 17 to 23 hours of testing over a week, the Tunisian version requires examination of its participants in an average of six subjects.

However, pupils who have passed the Tunisian Baccalaureate can continue their studies at some colleges in France and Quebec.

A retest for borderline failures is held in late June, and its results are made known by the first week of July.

The first Tunisian Baccalaureate was based on the French version, modified according to the ideas of Jules Ferry.