NOTE: Starting in 2023/24, Seconde students will no longer take the IGCSE exam and switch to the Cambridge C1/C2 levels in Terminale. If you have any questions about the change, email us at secondary@english31.org
Diplôme National du Brevet, Mention Internationale
The Diplôme national du brevet is a French state qualification taken in Troisième, at the end of compulsory schooling in France. This involves pupils taking written examinations in French, mathematics and history-geography in French. In addition, British Section pupils sit oral examinations in English language and literature and history-geography in English in order to gain the Mention Internationale.
Diplôme National du Brevet results (June 2023)
The overall VH school’s 3ème cohort pass rate is 90%.
The International Section students’ pass rate is 100%
- 97% of IS students got a mention
- 77% got a mention très bien (even more impressive!)
- 19% got a mention Bien
- 2% got a mention assez bien
- 2% got a pass
Option Internationale du Baccalauréat (OIB), British version
The Option Internationale du Baccalauréat (OIB) is the school-leaving qualification taken by British Section students. The British version of the OIB results from a long-standing partnership between the French Ministry of Education and Cambridge International Education (CIE), a division of the University of Cambridge. The unique feature of the OIB is that A-Level standard examinations in English Language and Literature and History/Geography are added to the full syllabus of the traditional French Baccalauréat, and the results of these examinations are factored, with heavy weightings (coéfficients), into the student's overall mark in what becomes the Option Internationale du Baccalauréat (OIB). Results are expressed as a mark out of twenty, with the highest commendation - Mention Très Bien - being awarded to students achieving an average mark of 16/20 and above. Each year, we celebrate our students' success in the OIB at a graduation ceremony: The Bachelier Evening.
More information about this pioneering bilingual diploma can be found in the brochures (in English or French) produced by Cambridge International Education and ASIBA (Association de Sections Internationales Britanniques et Anglophones). Over forty schools worldwide offer the British version of the OIB and all are members of ASIBA. Click here for an article and here for a presentation about recent changes to the format of the OIB diploma following the 2021 reform.
Click here for the 2021 UCAS OIB assessment.
2023 Results
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OIB (48 candidates) |
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Mention TB |
23% (11 students) |
|
Mention B |
35% (17 students) |
|
Mention AB |
23% (11 students) |
|
Admis sans mention |
19% (9 students) (2 rattrapage) |
|
Pass rate |
100% |
Final grades were based on coursework (an average mark across all 3 terms across the Terminale year) applying the usual coefficients while last year’s results only included terms 1+2 counted.
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|
JUNE 2022 (43 candidates) |
JUNE 2021 (47 candidates) |
JUNE 2020 (46 candidates) |
JUNE 2019 (35 candidates) |
June 2018 (48 candidates) |
June 2017 (37 candidates) |
|
Mention TB |
27.91% |
44.68% |
38.1% |
34% |
29% |
27% |
|
Mention B |
27.91% |
29.78% |
30.95% |
31% |
21% |
30% |
|
Mention AB |
16.28% |
23.4% |
26.19% |
28% |
25% |
27% |
|
Admis |
25.58% |
2.13% |
4.76% |
7% |
23% |
16% |
|
Pass rate |
97.7% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |