Five students were eliminated from the examination hall because they were caught with banned things such as copying notes and headphones on them. On July 16, the candidates sat the first exam – in the Romanian language and literature for other-language speaking students – of the additional Baccalaureate session, IPN reports.

The Ministry of Education said 299 students took the exam today. On July 17, the exam in the language of study will be sat by 926 candidates.

As many as 7,027 candidates will take part in the additional Baccalaureate session staged for those who could not come to the basic examination session for objective reasons or who got negative grades in it. The final results will be posted at the Baccalaureate centers on July 27.