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French Teen’s Baccalauréat Annulled Over Suspected AI Use as Family Seeks Court Relief

The student with dyspraxia and dysgraphia wrote under supervision on an offline computer, a point his family says undermines the cheating suspicion.

Overview

  • The Aix–Marseille rectorate invalidated the 17-year-old’s diploma after a corrector flagged his HGGSP paper for AI-like features, including unusual length, structured style and formulations uncommon for terminale students.
  • The report also noted use of a recent version of Microsoft Word with integrated access to generative AI, though the family maintains the exam computer had no internet connection.
  • Diagnosed with dyspraxia and dysgraphia, the student has long used a computer and says he sat the test alone in a monitored room with a teacher and AESH support present.
  • The family’s lawyer has filed an urgent référé de suspension at the Marseille administrative court to halt the annulment, leaving the case pending judicial review.
  • According to La Provence, the sanction voids all his bac exams and carries a two-year ban from public exams with a suspended sentence, while the rectorate says procedure was followed and cites additional elements such as a rupture of anonymity.