
The Baccalaureate in the Community of Madrid
Information regarding the Baccalaureate stage in the Community of Madrid.
Baccalaureate teachings
PURPOSE:
The Baccalaureate will have purpose provide students with the training, intellectual and human maturity, knowledge, skills and attitudes that allow them to develop and join life with responsibility and competence. Likewise, this stage should allow them to acquire and attain the essential skills for their educational and professional future, as well as enable them to access higher education.
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS:
1. The Baccalaureate is a stage that is part of secondary education post-compulsory, includes two courses academics, .
2. Students must take common subjects, modality-specific subjects and optional subjects.
3. They will be able to access to the Baccalaureate studies who are in possession of the title of Graduate in Compulsory Secondary Education or of any of the titles of Technician or Higher Technician of Vocational Training or Plastic Arts and Design or Sports Technician or Higher Sports Technician, as well as those titles declared equivalent for academic purposes.
4. The students they will be able to stay studying Baccalaureate in ordinary regime for four years, consecutive or not.
ORGANIZATION OF BACCALAUREATE MODALITIES:
1. modalities of the Baccalaureate will be the following:
a) Fine Arts: will be organized in two ways
- Plastic Arts, Image and Design
- Music and Performing Arts
b) Sciences and technology.
c) General.
d) Humanities and Social Sciences.
3. General modality high school if offer in the following public centers:
- Cardenal Cisneros High School in Madrid.
- High School Antonio Machado of Alcalá de Henares.
- IES Francisco Giner of the Rivers of Alcobendas.
- High School Jaime Ferrán de Collado Villalba.
- Puig Adam Mathematical Secondary School in Getafe.
Organization of the Baccalaureate
ELEVENTH GRADE
The subjects of the first year will be the following:
Common Subjects:
- Physical education
- Philosophy
- Spanish Language and Literature I
- Foreign Language I
Specific subjects of modality, the student must take 3 subjects, according to the following table:
FIRST COURSE |
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ARTS |
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
ASSEMBLY |
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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Route of Plastic Arts, Image and Design |
Music and Performing Arts Track |
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Artistic Drawing I Two subjects to choose between:
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One of the following subjects:
Two subjects to choose between:
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Mathematics I. Two subjects to choose between:
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General Mathematics. Two subjects to choose between:
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One of the following subjects:
Two subjects to choose between:
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Elective subject. The student will take an elective subject among:
a)Second Foreign Language (English, French, German, Italian or Portuguese)*
b) A specific subject not studied in any modality*
c) Other optional subjects from the catalog of optional subjects for the Baccalaureate
*The subjects indicated in sections a and b are compulsory in all educational centers
In addition, the student will study a weekly class hour of the subject Religion or Educational Attention
SECOND OF BACCALAUREATE
The subjects of the second course will be the following:
Common Subjects:
a) History of Spain.
b) History of Philosophy.
c) Spanish Language and Literature II.
d) Foreign Language II.
Specific subjects of modality, the student must take 3 subjects, according to the following table:
SECOND COURSE |
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ARTS |
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
ASSEMBLY |
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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Route of Plastic Arts, Image and Design |
Music and Performing Arts Track |
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Artistic Drawing II. Two subjects to choose between:
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One of the following subjects:
Two subjects to choose between:
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One of the following subjects:
Two subjects to choose between:
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Two subjects to choose between:
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One of the following subjects:
Two subjects to choose between:
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Elective subject. The student will take an elective subject among:
a)Second Foreign Language (English, French, German, Italian or Portuguese)*
b) A specific subject not studied in any modality*
c) Other optional subjects from the catalog of optional subjects for the Baccalaureate
*The subjects indicated in sections a and b are compulsory in all educational centers
In addition, the student will study a weekly class hour of the subject Religion or, as the case may be, will dedicate this class hour to studying in the center's library or in the space that the center deems most appropriate.
At. Diversity: Specificities and characteristics

Students who require different care than ordinary and in order for them to achieve the objectives established for the stage and acquire the corresponding competencies, the conditions of accessibility and universal design will be established, the support resources that favor access to the curriculum for students with special educational needs and will adapt the instruments and, where appropriate, the times and supports that ensure a correct evaluation of these students. All measures will be governed by the principles of normalization and inclusion.
Educational support measures will be established for the students with specific learning difficulties. In particular, flexibility measures and methodological alternatives in the teaching and evaluation of the foreign language will be established for these students. These adaptations will in no case be taken into account to lower the qualifications obtained.
The schooling of students with high intellectual abilities, identified as such according to the procedure and in the terms determined by the head of the Ministry with competences in the field of Education, it may be made more flexible in accordance with current regulations.
Obtaining the Bachelor's degree from other teachings
Obtaining the Bachelor's degree from other teachings
1. The student who has the Vocational Training Technician degree may obtain a Bachelor's degree in General modality, by passing common subjects.
2. The student who has the Technical degree in Plastic Arts and Design may obtain a Bachelor's degree in Arts modality by passing common subjects.
3. They will be able to obtain the title of Bachelor in the Arts modality who have passed the Professional Music or Dance Education and also pass the common subjects.
4. The note that will appear in the Bachelor's degree of these students will be obtained by the following weighting:
a) 60 percent of the average of the marks obtained in the common subjects of the Baccalaureate.
b) 40 per 100 of the average grade obtained in the teachings through which the degree is obtained, calculated in accordance with the provisions of the respective royal decrees of management of the same
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