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Brevet, baccalaureate, CAP: exam dates

Publié le 28 août 2026 - Public Service / (Prime Minister)

National Patent Diploma (DNB), bachelor's degree, certificate of professional competence (CAP)… Find all the dates of the exams for the 2026-2027 school year.

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Given the hot weather in June 2026, the 2027 session schedule was designed to ensure favorable conditions for candidates. That is why most written and oral tests will take place in the morning.

National Patent Diploma (DNB)

Common written tests

The DNB written tests common to all candidates will take place:

the Thursday 24th, Friday 25 and Monday 28 June 2027 for the normal session.

Specific written test

The foreign living language test specific to individual candidates will be held:

Tuesday, June 29, 2027 for the regular session.

All information about the national patent diploma.

Reminder

The written tests of the patent cover 4 subjects: French (3 hours), mathematics (2 hours), history-geography and moral and civic education (2 hours) and science (1 hour: 2 disciplines between physics-chemistry, life and earth sciences, technology).

The oral exam is used to assess the quality of expression, on a project conducted in the history of the arts or as part of an interdisciplinary practical teaching (IPE) or one of the educational pathways. It takes the form of a 15-minute individual interview (5 minutes of presentation and 10 minutes of interview) or a 25-minute group interview (10 minutes of presentation and 15 minutes of interview).

Professional patent

The test of expression and knowledge of the world of the spring session will take place Wednesday, May 19, 2027.

Bachelor's degree

For the general and technological baccalaureate, continuous testing accounts for 40% of the final grade, the remaining 60% being divided between the French advance test (written and oral), the mathematics advance test, the philosophy test, the specialty tests and the Grand oral.

General and technological baccalaureates

Philosophy tests: Monday 14 June morning
Specialty written tests: Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 and Friday 18 June 2027 morning
Grand oral (at the initiative of the academies): from Monday 21 June and at the latest until Friday 2 July 2027

Early French tests (in first class)

Written test: Tuesday, June 15, 2027 from 8 am to noon
Oral test (at the initiative of the academies): Monday 21 June and at the latest until Friday 9 July 2027

Advance Mathematics Tests

monday 21 june 2027 from 8 am to 10 am

Professional Bachelor's degree

For the metropolitan academies, Reunion, Mayotte, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique as well as for Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and French Polynesia, the written examinations of the professional baccalaureate examination are fixed as Thursday 3 and Friday 4 June, from Monday 7 to Wednesday 9 June and from Monday 14 to Friday 25 June 2027, only in the morning.
Practical and oral exams of the professional baccalaureate are conducted according to the indications mentioned on the calendar of each specialty, with the exception of the oral project test which will take place from Monday, June 21, 2027.

Please note

The results, for the general and technological baccalaureate and for the professional baccalaureate, will be communicated from the tuesday 6 July 2027. The so-called catch-up events will take place until Friday, July 9, 2027.

FYI

Professional observation sequences of general and technological second-year students during the last two weeks of June.

National Patent for Crafts

General teaching tests of the National Patent for Crafts will take place:

thursday, june 3, 2027 for modern languages (as far as possible, the written and oral parts will take place on the same day);
tuesday, june 8, 2027 for French;
wednesday, june 9, 2027 for history-geography and moral and civic education.