Sharing an exam paper on Compatri: the rules, and what you never share

Information checked on 2 November 2026.

Sharing an exam paper is useful on one condition: doing it after the exam, never before or during. On Compatri, you photograph the paper of a finished test or exam, the team checks it, and it joins the archive where pupils in the same class, in other cities, revise with it. Here are the exact upload rules, what happens next, and what you never share, with the sanctions set out in the texts.

Why share an exam paper after the exam

A past paper is the most direct revision tool: it shows the format, length, level and real time. Exam bodies know this. In Senegal, the Office du Baccalauréat publishes the general bac papers and answer keys. In Cameroon, the GCE Board offers past questions among its services, and the École nationale supérieure polytechnique de Yaoundé makes past entrance papers available for download. Publishing a paper once the exam is over is therefore normal practice.

What is missing are the papers nobody publishes: end-of-term tests, class tests, mock exams, BEPC papers from some regions, school entrance exams. Each of these papers sits in a pupil's bag. The Compatri exam archive (in French) is there to gather them. It is still small: it grows paper by paper, with every pupil who shares one. Our article on revising with past papers explains how to use them.

How to share a paper on Compatri

You upload on the upload page (in French), which is for logged-in members: the team must be able to notify and reach you.

What you are asked for

The declaration to tick

Nothing is saved without this box: "I am uploading the paper of a finished exam, with no pupil's answer sheet and no readable pupil's name. I am 16 or older, and I agree that it will be published in the archive after review."

So, three commitments:

When the date is required

For a national exam (bac, probatoire, BEPC, CEP, GCE, entrance exam) of the current year, the exam date is required: without it, the form refuses the upload with this message: "Give the date of the exam: a paper is never published before the next day." For a test, term exam or an exam from a past year it stays optional, and the review decides.

What happens after you upload

Does a published paper belong to you, or to your school, and you want it removed? The archive page says so: write to us from the contact page and it will be removed without delay.

What you never share

A paper before or during the exam

This is the red line. A paper spread before the end of the exam is not help, it is a leak, and passing it around means taking part in cheating. The texts make no distinction between whoever cheats and whoever helps others cheat.

In Cameroon, decree no. 95/035 of 24 February 1995 on the baccalauréats provides for:

• the elimination of candidates who communicate during the papers, and immediate removal from the room when caught in the act;
• for a candidate found guilty of cheating during or after the session: exclusion from the exam and a ban from sitting it for the next three sessions, as well as from any entrance competition of a public higher education institution during that time;
• for a teacher, marker or invigilator who is complicit: immediate removal from the jury or team and a suspension of up to four months;
• for anyone else guilty of fraud or complicity: criminal prosecution.

In Côte d'Ivoire, the Direction des examens et concours publishes the decisions of its national disciplinary commission, which rules on candidates reported for cheating at the BEPC and the bac. A sanctioned candidate must obtain a certificate lifting the sanction before sitting a later session.

Other countries have their own texts: ask your school. One rule applies everywhere: never forward a "paper" you received the night before. At best it is a scam, at worst you are taking part in cheating.

An answer sheet, a grade, a name

Your marked script is personal: it carries your name, your grade and the marker's comments. A classmate's is even more so. The archive accepts the paper, not answer sheets. If you want to share a way of solving a problem, ask in your class group instead, where other pupils answer and whoever asked marks the best answer.

A document you have no right to share

An entrance exam paper whose rules forbid sharing, an internal school document, a paid answer key: if in doubt, ask your teacher first. And anyone who believes a published paper belongs to them can have it removed on request.

Photographing a paper well

• Lay the sheet flat, face-on, on a dark surface.
• Capture the whole sheet, edges included, in daylight.
• One photo per page, in order; up to eight photos per upload.
• Cover any name, candidate number or signature before the photo.
• Check your details: the right subject, class, stream and year are what let a final-year D pupil in Natitingou find the paper sat in Kétou.

What your upload changes

Every published paper helps a pupil you do not know, in a city you have never visited, who will sit the same exam as you next year. That is the idea behind the archive and the class groups: one group per class and per city, and the same class found from one city to the next. Our article on finding pupils in your class in other cities shows how to use it, and our country guides (bac and GCE in Cameroon, preparing for the BEPC) tell you when exams fall.

Compatri runs no exam: only the texts of your ministry and your bac office are binding.

Official sources

• Office du Baccalauréat of Senegal: 2026 general bac papers
• Office du Baccalauréat of Senegal: 2026 general bac answer keys
• Cameroon GCE Board: services, including past questions
• ENSP Yaoundé: programmes, admission and downloads
• Office du Baccalauréat du Cameroun: decree no. 95/035 of 24 February 1995 on the organisation of the baccalauréats
• Direction des examens et concours (Côte d'Ivoire): national disciplinary commission and lifting of sanctions