School of European Education

EUROPEAN BACCALAUREATE-

SCHOOL OF EUROPEAN EDUCATION, HERAKLION- CRETE

SCHOOL OF EUROPEAN EDUCATION

HERAKLION-CRETE

European Baccalaureate

Academic year 2013/2014

Booklet of courses

offered in S6 and S7

SUPERVISION:

Partsanaki V..

Zarimbas Α.

To the pupils in the 5th year and their parents:

This document is intended to give you information about courses in years 6 and 7. You will also find a summary of regulations concerning the Baccalaureate examinations. For the full text, please visit: http://www.eursc.eu/index.php?id=96#50.

Please read the relevant parts of this document before the meeting on 21th January 2014. During the meeting, the subject teachers will be available for a short time to answer your questions.

You are very welcome to contact the Baccalaureate group:

DR. LICHNAKI MARIA SEP DIRECTOR

KOKOTSAKI ANTONIA DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE SECONDARY CIRCLE

PARTSANAKI VASILIKI BAC COORDINATOR, SPANISH LIII, LIV COORDINATOR

ZARIMBAS AGGELOS CAREER ADVISER PHYSICAL EDUCATION COORDINATOR

CHLIAVORAS KONSTANTINE ENGLISH LI & HUMAN SCIENCE COORDINATOR

DENIER PASCALE FRENCH LII, LIII COORDINATOR.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I.  General Information p. 3

II. Subjects Choices (S6 –S7) p. 4-5

III. Attendance in S6 p. 6

IV. Attendance in S7 p. 6

V.  Regulations for the European Baccalaureate p. 7-10

VI.  The European Baccalaureate Certificates p.11

VII.  Informations for the courses S6-S7 p. 12-…

IMPORTANT DATES

Monday 13th January: Distribution in class of the document “Structure and rules of the 6th and 7th year programmes”

Tuesday 21th January: Information evening: meeting with parents (14.00)

Friday 14th February: Final date for handing in final choices form

Mid June: Last date for requesting a change of options. All changes are subject to the approval of the Director.

GENERAL INFORMATION

1  The European Baccalaureate is the final title awarded by the European Schools at the end of the Secondary Cycle

2  For the final mark all the marks given in Year 7, as well as the BAC written and oral exams are taken into consideration.

3  Regular and consecutive attendance at least of the classes in years 6 and 7 of the secondary section is needed in order to participate in the final exams and to be awarded the Baccalaureate

In what subjects are the candidates examined?

Article 4.1 'The examinations will normally cover the year 7 syllabus, but will also test knowledge gained in previous years, especially year 6'.

(7.10.2009, doc. Ref. 2009-D-28-en-2)

The students “make” their own Baccalaureate in the beginning of the 6th year, they therefore choose the subjects, which they follow the next two years.

These choices are related with the choices in the 4th year. Many subjects can’t be chosen if the students haven’t followed them in the 4th and 5th year. Still there is the chance of having an attainment test in the end of the 5th year.

In some of these subjects the students will sit for a simultaneous harmonized written (5) and oral (3) exam, in the end of the 7th year (BAC EXAMS).

The European Baccalaureate can have a science, humanities, artistic or mixed orientation. The subjects are:

Compulsory (column 1) Compulsory if not taken as an Option 4p. (col. 2)

LANGUAGE Ι 4p. HISTORY 2p.

LANGUAGE ΙΙ 3p. GEOGRAPHY 2p.

ΜΑTHEMATICS 3p or 5p. PHILOSOPHY 2p.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION 2p. BIOLOGY 2p.

ETHICS or RELIGION 1p.

Options of 4 periods a week (column 3).

Advanced courses of 3 periods a week (col. 4)

LANGUAGE I, LANGUAGE II, MATHEMATICS

Additional courses of 2 periods a week (column 5).

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Ι. SUBJECT CHOICES 6th – 7th

SUBJECTS CHOICES- GENERAL RULES S6 – S7

1. Every pupil’s timetable should include:

- a minimum of 31 periods, a maximum of 35 periods. Exceptions can be made on the advice of the Class council.

- at least 29 periods of obligatory courses, options and advanced courses (columns 1 to 4).

- a minimum of 2, a maximum of 4 options of 4 periods.

2. History 2 p - Geography 2 p and Philosophy 2 p courses are obligatory if they have not been chosen as 4 period options (column 3).

3. At least one science subject must be chosen from Biology 2 p, Biology 4 p, Physics 4 p and Chemistry 4 p. Biology 2 p cannot be chosen together with Biology 4 p.

4. Advanced courses LI, LII are intended for students with a specific interest. Please note that if chosen, they are examined both written and oral obligatorily. If a student chooses them, still (s)he has to choose 2 of the 4p. options.

5. Higher Mathematics (column 4) is only possible with Mathematics 5 p (column 1), Lab courses (column 5) are only possible if the corresponding options (4p) have been chosen (column 3).

6. Complementary courses are not subject to a final Baccalaureate examination. It is not obligatory to choose any if the student has already chosen 31 periods from the other columns.

Art and Music (column 5) are excluded if already chosen in column 3.

Introduction to Economics is intended only for pupils who have not taken Economics in the 4th and 5th years and who have not chosen the 6th and 7th year course in column 3.

7. Language choices:

In theory no change of language choices is expected for pupils going into the 6th year. However, in certain cases, the following changes are possible:

a. For a language already taken, changing from a lower level to a higher level (for example, from L4 to L3) can be authorised by the Director, bearing in mind the administrative restrictions, and following an aptitude test (written and oral).

b. For a language already taken, changing from a higher level to a lower level (for example from L 3 to L 4) can be authorised by the Director on condition that this is approved by the class council in light of the results obtained by the pupil.

c. Choosing a new language which has not previously been studied as L 3 or L 4 is possible, with the Director’s agreement, bearing in mind the administrative restrictions, as well as an aptitude test (written and oral) at the corresponding level.

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ΙΙΙ. ATTENDANCE IN S6

IV. ATTENDANCE IN S7

SEPTEMBER- OCTOBER

The students must:

1  complete and submit choice form for the written (5) and the oral (3) exams

NO CHANGE PERMITTED AFTERWARDS

2  register in an additional option subject, whether or not they have attended a course in the subject in question in the school.

-admittance to this additional Baccalaureate examination may be authorised only if: documentation is provided to show that an examination in the subject is part of the conditions for admission to the higher education course on which the student wishes to embark-

V. THE EUROPEAN BACCALAUREATE

A student is awarded the European Baccalaureate

when he/she has achieved

at least 60% or more,

after taking into consideration all the marks given:

The proportion of the final total mark allotted to the various parts:

50 percent for the average preliminary mark C

35 percent for the average W for the written examinations

15 percent for the average O for the oral examinations

All marks are expressed as a mark out of 100, accurate to one decimal place

Final result:

0.50 C + 0.35 W + 0.15 O

mark out of 100, accurate to two decimal places

A) PRELIMINARY MARK (50%)

-mark out of 100, accurate to one decimal place-

Consists of:

AVERAGE A MARKS OF BOTH SEMESTERS (20%)

mark out of 100, accurate to two decimal places

all subjects are given a mark with the exception of Religion/Ethics

AVERAGE B MARKS (30%)

mark out of 100, accurate to two decimal places

in the BAC subjects (long): January part examinations (PREBAC)

- Language I

- Language II

- Mathematics (3 and 5 periods)

- All options (4 periods)

- Advanced language I

- Advanced language II

·  Each pupil will be examined in every one of the subjects listed above, assuming he/she has taken the subject.

·  The time allowed for each class examination will correspond to that for the written examination in the Baccalaureate.

·  The long class examinations must be harmonised within each school.

in the rest of the subjects (2p.) (short): exams in December and in early May

a) In Philosophy (2-period) and in Advanced Mathematics, a short written examination will be organised as part of the normal school week at the end of each semester. The time allowed will be two consecutive teaching periods. The final ‘B’ mark will be the arithmetical average of the two ‘B’ marks.

b) In Biology, History, Geography (all 2 periods a week), two short written examinations lasting one teaching period will be organised as part of the normal timetable in the course of each semester. The final ‘B’ mark in the subjects listed under (a) and (b) will be the arithmetical average of the two semester ‘B’ marks.

The final ‘B’ mark will be the arithmetical average of the four ‘B’ marks.

c) For complementary courses, a single short written examination lasting one teaching period will be organised at the end of each semester. The final ‘B’ mark will be the arithmetical average of the two ‘B’ marks.

in Physical Education a B mark in the end of every unit

For Physical Education, the following arrangements will apply:

The ‘B’ mark shows the results of the tests held at the end of each unit of instruction. These tests are purely practical, and involve no written work of any kind.

Ø  Pupils can be required to sit two examinations per day, although their examination time on any one day may not exceed six hours. There must be a minimum interval of one hour between two examinations.

Ø  The PREBAC exams begin two weeks after Christmas holidays and they last 10 days.

B)  AVERAGE OF WRITTEN EXAMINATIONS (35%)

7% for each written exam -mark out of 100, accurate to one decimal place-

Number and nature of written examinations

Candidates will take five written examinations:

1. Language I or advanced Language I

2. Language II or advanced Language II

3. Mathematics (5 periods) or Mathematics (3 periods)

4. Option (4 periods)

5. Option (4 periods)

Restrictions for compulsory subjects and for options:

Ø  Examinations 1 and 2

Where candidates have chosen to follow an Advanced course in L I and/or in L II, they will be required to take a written examination on that course and not, therefore, on the basic course in the subject.

Ø  Examinations 4 and 5

The choice of options will have to be made at the time of registering for the examination.

Time allowed for written examinations:

Language I 4 hours

Advanced Language I 4 hours

Advanced Language II 4 hours

Mathematics (5 periods) 4 hours

Art 5 hours

All other subjects 3 hours

The scripts are marked by two correctors (they don’t see the marks one of another and they make comments on their marking) :

•  From the subject teacher in the school

•  From another external corrector in the Brussels’ correction center

•  in case of 2 marks’ difference a third corrector in Brussels gives the final mark

There are clear instructions for the form of the exam and the marking as well as past papers

The marks are from 0-10, accurate to one decimal place

The proposed questions are made only by the Type I schools and are sent to Brussels in November

C)  AVERAGE OF ORAL EXAMINATIONS (15%)

5% for each oral exam -mark out of 100, accurate to one decimal place-

Number and nature of oral examinations

Candidates will take three oral examinations. The subjects in which an oral examination will or may be taken are as follows:

1. Language 1 or Advanced Language 1

2. Language 2 or Advanced Language 2 or History (2p.or 4 p.) or Geography (2.or 4p.)

3. Advanced mathematics or

Philosophy (2 or 4 periods) or

Language 3 or

Language 4/ONLY or

Biology (2 or 4 periods) or

Chemistry (4 periods) or

Physics (4 periods)

Restrictions for compulsory subjects and for options:

Examination 1: Language 1 or Advanced Language 1

Candidates who have followed the advanced course will be required to take an examination on that course, and not, therefore, on the basic course.

Examination 2: Language 2 or Advanced Language 2 or Geography or History

Candidates who have followed the Advanced Language 2 course and who wish to choose L2 for their second oral examination will be required to take an examination on that course, and not on the basic course.

The other candidates will take an examination in either Language 2 or history (2 or 4 periods) or geography (2 or 4 periods). It is only possible for candidates to take the history or geography oral examination provided that they have not chosen to take the subject in question as a written examination.

Examination 3

Candidates who have followed the advanced course in mathematics will be compulsorily examined on that course.