She takes the Bac 2024 at 9 years old and it’s a record: who is the youngest candidate ever recorded for this exam ?

This little girl should be in CE2 but will pass the Bac 2024 (illustrative photo). MICHAEL ESDOURRUBAILH – Midi Libre

The youngest candidate for the 2024 general and technological baccalaureate is 9 years old, announced the Ministry of National Education on Friday June 7, 2024. This little girl beats the new record for precocity in history of the French exam implemented in 1809 for the first time.

She should be in CE2 but will pass the Baccalaureate this year. This student from the Strasbourg academy is 9 years old and will be the youngest candidate for the general and technological baccalaureate in 2024, announced the Ministry of National Education during a press conference. a press conference on the presentation of the baccalaureate this Friday, June 7, 2024.

Free candidate

The little girl is registered as a free candidate for the baccalaureate session, which starts on June 18 with the philosophy test, specifies France info.

The very young high school graduate chose mathematics and physics-chemistry specialties. She passed "punctual tests, which correspond to continuous assessment" recently, according to the ministry. Last year, aged 8, she had already passed the advanced French tests.

The little girl is not enrolled in a school but is studying with the CNED, the National Center for Distance Education, underlines the Huffington Post.

67 years difference with the oldest

The youngest candidates registered for the baccalaureate are generally aged 12 or 13. According to France Inter, the record was previously held by a student born on August 7, 2006, who passed the baccalaureate in 2018, at the age of 11 years and 10 months. She then beat the record established in 1989 by Arthur Ramianndriosa.

Results on July 8, 2024

The 2024 edition of the baccalaureate brings together 728 and 164 candidates. The oldest candidate is 67 years apart from the youngest candidate: enrolled in the Bordeaux academy, he is 76 years old.

We will have to wait until July 8, the date of publication of the results of the general baccalaureate, to find out if the youngest candidate in the history of this exam will obtain the famous diploma.