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Brevet students — those who take state exams to receive diplomas certifying their completion of middle school — were finally able to take their exams in late June after more than two years of COVID-19-related interruptions. As part of the Education Ministry’s mitigation measures for official exams, students had to sit in for only five of the usual nine official exams. It was mandatory for students to take mathematics as well as two language exams — Arabic and English or French. In addition, students were given the option to choose two exams they wished to sit from two groups: sciences (chemistry, biology and physics) and humanities (geography, history and civics). Another step put in place by the Education Ministry was to calculate school test results along with the results of official exams to potentially boost success rates.