A student won the baccalaureate in July at the age of 9, becoming the youngest to obtain this diploma in end school studies, we learned Friday from the Ministry of National Education, confirming information from Franceinfo.
This pupil, who passed the exam to Paris as a free candidate in mathematical and physics-chemistry specialties, graduated to the catch-up, therefore without mention. “The previous younger bachelor who was under 12, it was in 1989”, at the age of 11, the ministry told AFP.
The ministry of gives no more details on this extraordinary winner of a diploma that the vast majority of French people obtain at 17 or 18 years old, at the end of the high school.
According to Franceinfo, the young bachelor was born in France, is of Grenadian nationality and follows her schooling in Dubai.
A training organization, Isoset, said for its part in a statement that it has supported this student according to a method developed in collaboration with another early bachelor, graduated at 12 years in 2012, according to his site.
So far the record was held by Arthur Ramiandrisoa who had had his baccalaureate at 11 years and 11 months in 1989. He had never set foot in school, his parents had assured his home education according to a method that his father had described in a book like “the Arthur method”.
This year, the bac had recorded the registration of an even younger candidate, 8 years old, but he ultimately did not show up for exams.
