Over 187,130 Candidates from Public, Private Schoolds Earn High School Degree

Rabat - 187,138 candidates from public and private schoolds got their high school degree called "Baccalaureate" during the June 2018 session, that is a 57.36% success rate, against 50.28% posted last year, announced the national education Ministry on Friday. The same source added that female graduates were 103,567, that is a 55.34% success rate, noting that 92,771 candidates got a distinction, that is 49.58% of the total number of graduates.

Recalling that 326,273 schooled candidates took the exams, the press release noted that the highest mark was 19.44 out of 20, scored in physics (French option), in Marrakech-Safi regional academy for education and training. The number of graduates majoring in sciences and technologies reached 125,380, a 60.74% success rate, while graduates majoring in literature were 61,023 (51.81%).