During the baccalaureate session 2012 there will be less BAC centers and all will have electronic filters so that students won’t be able to enter with mobile phones or other devices that would help them cheat. Besides, the ban from repeated exams could be prolonged, Info-Prim Neo reports. Minister of Education Mihail Sleahtitchi told the press that the whole baccalaureate concept would be changed before the 2013 session in order to increase the credibility of results. The use of electronic filters in several lyceums proved efficient this year. However, the Ministry cannot afford to buy more of them. One device costs $6000. The Minister will only rent them during the exam period. The Minister said that next year there would no more video surveillance, which proved inefficient during this session. The footage in a lyceum in Chisinau was faked. The Minister plans to develop the use of telephony signal jamming. Mihail Sleahtitchi added that next year the Ministry would imitate some French practices. An example is prolonging the ban from BAC exams during the repeated session. According to him, French students who fail to pass all the exams can retake them only after 5 years. In Romania, the ban is shorter – 3 years. The list of exam subjects will be reviewed, but history will remain among the mandatory exams. Written tests will be rethought so that the focus would be on problem solving instead of reproducing learned material. The oral tests will be introduced as an extension of the written one. About 29,000 students took the BAC exams in this year’s session and 88.3% passed it. The average general score is 7.23. Nearly 3400 candidates failed the exams.