A quelques centièmes du 20/20

A few hundredths from 20/20

The best ranked in BEM

The results of the Middle School Certificate (BEM) exam for the June 2024 session were announced Thursday by the Ministry of National Education. It is a student from Laghouat, Zeghrar Lyna, from CEM Mohamed-Azzouz, who is the first at the national level by obtaining the best mark with an average of 19.94, a few hundredths from 20/20. Second place went to Khitous Hadil, from Ras El Aïoun in the wilaya of Batna, student of CEM Daoudi-Salah, with an average of 19.92, not far from 20/20 there too, as well as Chahd Nour from the wilaya of M’sila, student of CEM Colonel El-Haoues third place with an average of 19.87. According to a press release from the Ministry of National Education, the national success rate for the BEM exam reached 62.85% this year among those having obtained an average equivalent to or greater than 10 out of 20. According to the ministry, the overall number of registered school candidates amounts to 805,444 candidates, including 799,612 schooled candidates who sat for the exam, and among whom 502,521 candidates were admitted. According to the same source, the number of educated candidates admitted with honors amounts to 263,088 candidates, distributed among 7,874 candidates with Excellent honors, 45,554 candidates with Very Good honors, 79,334 with Good honors and 130,326 candidates with Fairly Good honors. As for students admitted to the first year of secondary school, their number amounts to 585,882 candidates, a rate of 73.27%.
The ministry expressed its thanks to the members of the educational corporation, “for the efforts they have made throughout the school year, as well as to the ministerial departments and security bodies, for their contribution to the success of this exam”. As soon as the results were announced, the lucky winners loudly celebrated their success with the usual fireworks and car horn concerts, which indicates the increasing importance given by students and their parents to the exams. end of year, such as the BEM and the Bac. There was a time when only the defenses of 3rd cycle doctorates (as they were called at the time) and state doctorates were followed by a simple snack at the end of the amphitheater given for those present at the defenses. At that time, successes in the BEM and Bac exams were trivialized and went unnoticed. Today, the BEM and the Bac have the status of key tests, indicators of the crucial role of the teacher and, more broadly, of workers in the education sector, in improving results. For several years, the public authorities have taken all precautions to guarantee the credibility of the BEM exam, just like the baccalaureate exam, by preventing fraud and leaks of subjects. All the services concerned have been mobilized in this direction. These are official exams. Securing their progress is essential.
To this end, the attorneys general at the Courts of Justice take the necessary measures to prevent and combat fraud and leaks of examination subjects, in particular through the use of Information and Communication Technologies ( TIC). At the level of each Court, a monitoring and monitoring unit is set up for this purpose. Strict legal treatment is planned through immediate criminal prosecution, in coordination with the competent authorities, namely the judicial police services and the National Body for the Prevention and Combating of ICT-related Offenses.
For example, as part of the fight against crimes against the integrity of exams, the Dréan court (El Tarf) sentenced, under the immediate appearance procedure, a young adult girl to 3 years in prison and a fine of 300,000 DA for the offense of “leaking subjects and answers for the BEM exams of the 2024 session”. She was caught on June 4, 2024 in a state of fraud by using a mobile phone and communicating with her adult sister who dictated the answers to her. This is not the only example, the Tébessa court sentenced to 2 years in prison, accompanied by a fine of 200,000 DA, a 25-year-old independent candidate and a 34-year-old woman, presumed involved in the leak of subjects, for one, and answers, for the other, of the BEM exams, via remote means of communication.
They were prosecuted following the immediate appearance procedure.
Lakhdar A.