2018 general competition: 114 winners against 148 in 2017 • Rewmi.com

The 2018 edition of the General Competition rated 2179 candidates, of whom 1284 were in First Class with 780 girls and 504 boys and 895 in Terminale class, with 465 girls and 430 boys. This is a decrease of 844 compared to last year, whose number of candidates was 3023. This is what the Minister of National Education, Serigne Mbaye Thiam, who was facing reporters on Tuesday 17 July 2018 to reveal the names of the winners.

He adds that in total, despite the deletion of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placeits and the introduction of a 3rd prize, the competition recorded 114 distinctions against 148 in 2017 including 27 accessits from 3rd to 7th. And these 114 distinctions are composed of 63 awards and 51 accessits. These include 66 in First class (37 awards and 29 accessits) and 48 in Terminale (26 awards and 22 accessits), 61 for girls and 53 for boys, 75 for public schools and 39 for girls. for private institutions and finally 34 for public institutions of excellence recruiting through national competition and 80 for others. He states that these 114 distinctions are awarded to 101 laureates including 55 girls and 46 boys.

This year's edition also allowed Serigne Mbaye Thiam to see that "excellent students attend our institutions". Because, he argues, in several disciplines, candidates have achieved marks of 16/20 or above, including Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Life and Earth Sciences (SVT).

Si for three years, no student had obtained a distinction in Philosophy, we note this year the awarding of the 1st prize and 2nd place of Philosophy in the general competition.

The Minister of National Education believes that, even if the ranking between schools is now removed, "it is nevertheless useful to note the dramatic breakthrough of the pupils of the Scientific High School of Diourbel who participate for the first time in this contest, so only for the classes of Première, and who harvested a good harvest of distinctions, with remarkable performances in the scientific disciplines ". In addition to this, students in the scientific series, and particularly those in the S1 series, have won most of the awards this year, including in the disciplines generally devoted to literary series such as philosophy, French and German. , English, history, geography, both first and final.

Serigne Mbaye Thiam also reported that, this year, students have written for the first time, in physical sciences and life and earth sciences for First Classes. And for the final year classes, French and manufacturing analysis were introduced.

In total, the examinations cover 17 disciplines in First class and 15 in Terminale class. For First Class, Latin, Greek, French, History, Geography, Mathematics, English, German, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian, Citizenship and Human Rights, Physical Sciences, Science of life and earth, physical education and sports. And for Terminale, philosophy, French, history-geography, mathematics, physical sciences, life sciences and earth, Islamic studies, general economics, mechanical engineering , manufacturing analysis, electronics-electrical engineering, accounting techniques, citizenship and human rights, physical education and sports.

And to be nominated for the General Competition the pupil must have a grade point average of at least 12/20 and an average of at least 14/20 in the chosen discipline.

For this year's edition, the Minister pointed out that, in accordance with Order No. 003735 of February 20, 2018, which reformed the General Competition, the thresholds for the awarding of various distinctions are as follows: 1st prize: required mark greater than or equal to 16/20, 2nd prize: mark required up to 15/20 and 3rd prize: required mark greater than or equal to 14/20. For the accessits, the 1st must have a required mark greater than or equal to 13/20 and the 2nd, a required mark greater than or equal to 12/20.