More than 19,000 candidates take the exam in the language of study on June 5. Of these, 16,474 students sit the exam in the Romanian language and literature, while 3,238 – in the Russian language and literature, IPN reports.
The next exam, in the foreign language, will be held on June 9.
The basic session closes on June 19. The exam papers will be graded until June 26 and the exam results will be posted at the Baccalaureate centers on June 27. The students will have 48 hours to challenge the grades, on June 27 and June 28. The final results, after the examination of challenges, will be made public on July 6.
The additional Baccalaureate session will take place in the period between July 16 and July 23.
Three candidates speaking other languages that Romanian, who took the first Baccalaureate exam in the Romanian language and literature on June 2, were caught trying to cheat and were removed from the examination hall.