From Monday until June 30, 207.247 candidates across the country, will undergo the exams of single Baccalaureate (Philo). According to Louis Mary Cador, Director General of the Ministry of Education all is ready. Stressing that this year the exams ill take place in a difficult economic context, the initial budget of 650 million gourdes, was revised down to 400 million.

He also said that the police and justice are ready for the holding these days of exams. Candidates are asked not to appear in examination centers with a mobile phone and a programmable calculator among others... They are also called to appear in decent clothing (uniform recommended) and respect the timetable for the course of exams, which begin on Monday morning with the philosophy.

Candidates for the ten departments of the country are distributed as follows :

Grand’Anse : 3 496 regular Bac and 101 of Bac for those that failed ;

Artibonite : 15,977 regular Bac and 231 Bac for those that failed ;

Centre : 6,105 regular Bac and 279 Bac for those that failed ;

Nippes : 2,949 regular Bac and 119 Bac for those that failed ;

West: 133,196 regular Bac and 757 Bac for those that failed ;

Nord : 15,656 regular Bac and 572 Bac for those that failed ;

North West : 6,248 regular Bac and 147 Bac for those that failed ;

South : 5,814 regular Bac and 154 Bac for those that failed ;

South East : 4,426 regular Bac and 92 Bac for those that failed ;

Northeast : 6,488 regular Bac and 16 Bac for those that failed.

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