At the beaches, in cafes, or simply at home, high school students and their notebooks are blossoming everywhere this season. As every year, the Science stream is once again the most coveted among students, representing 49% of the candidates registered this year in the department. This success is often due to parents, who push their children in this direction thinking that it will provide a higher chance of success later, with a Science baccalaureate in hand. However, this is no longer a verified fact. The Science stream is followed by the Economics and Social stream and the Literary stream, which is attracting fewer and fewer students.
Regarding the technological stream, it has slightly declined compared to 2008, to the detriment of the professional stream. The latter attracts students due to shorter studies that allow for quicker entry into working life.
On Thursday, the young students will therefore dive into the philosophy exam, followed on Tuesday by the scientific subjects. On Monday the 22nd, the first foreign language (LV1) will be featured. On Tuesday the 23rd, Economists will take their main subject (economics and sociology) while the Science and Literary students will tackle the second foreign language (LV2) and mathematics for the scientists. On Wednesday the 24th, the Science stream students will focus on History-Geography, as will the Literary and Economics students. For the preliminary exams, the eleventh-grade students will encounter works by Rousseau, Voltaire, Verlaine, and others, on Monday the 22nd from 8 AM to 12 PM.
As with every year, a multitude of websites venture to suggest the probable exam topics for the baccalaureate. For example, for the ES and L streams, the website “l’รฉtudiant” suggests the possibility that “the United States,” “the Rhine Europe,” or “the North-South interface” might appear on the Geography exam. In History, the envisaged topics are: “the outcome and memories of World War II” or “from the industrial society to the consumer society.” For the Science stream, plausible Geography topics could include “centers of impulse and development inequalities,” “the superpower status of the USA,” or “the North-South interface.” In History, “the Cold War” and “the new republican system” seem most likely according to “letudiant.fr”.
However, these probabilities should still be taken with caution. It is better to overstudy than to underprepare.
