BAC 2023 SPECIALTY TESTS. The 2023 baccalaureate specialty tests start next week. Here are their exact dates, as well as the topics and answers of the last edition to help you revise concretely.
[Updated March 13, 2023 at 2:43 p.m.] The specialty examinations for the 2023 baccalaureate take place on the dates of Monday 20, Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 March 2023. They count for 32% of the 60% final evaluation of the baccalaureate, the Remaining 40% relying on continuous monitoring. How to concretely prepare for it? Consult the topics that fell during the last baccalaureate specialty exams in France, as well as their answers.
The specialties were assessed for the first time in final exams in 2021 in France, as part of the new bac initiated in 2018. If the specialty exams were replaced by continuous assessment during the 2019 and 2020 editions of the bac (in full Covid crisis) and postponed by 2 months last year, they normally take place for the first time since their creation for this 2023 edition of the baccalaureate.
What are the latest specialty topics that fell in France (and their fixes)?
The subjects of the specialty tests for the 2022 baccalaureate are very numerous since in total, the approximately 520,000 baccalaureate candidates this year had the choice of 12 subjects, themselves divided into several subjects. Here are the topics and answers published after each of the tests:
The specialty tests, the passage of which took place for the first time during the 2022 baccalaureate, consists of a novelty of twelve tests, one per specialty teaching. They were introduced by the baccalaureate reform which abolished the S, ES and L streams in high school. Candidates are assessed on two subjects they have chosen to study during their year of first year and that of final year. Specialty exams normally take place in March.
This short session of specialty tests only represents the first half of the exams that make up the baccalaureate. Candidates must then return to classes and revisions to prepare for the philosophy and oral exams scheduled between mid-June and the very end of June. During the second half of June, the pupils of first year rub shoulders with the written and oral French tests.
As a reminder, the specialty tests such as the final baccalaureate tests represent 60% of the final mark. For the remaining 40%, corresponding to the “common base” of knowledge, the games of each candidate are already made since it is a continuous assessment (the old E3C or “common continuous assessment tests”).
Candidates have between three and four hours to compose on each specialty test, but, for once, the course and content of the exams are specific to each subject. For all written tests and depending on the course being assessed, candidates must answer questions, solve problems, perform various exercises or write essays.
Concretely, the subjects submit several questions or several exercises to the candidate and the latter must choose to answer or to carry out a certain number of them. Be careful, because some subjects provide compulsory exercises for all candidates and others optional.
Most specialties are assessed on a single written test, but some subjects, particularly science, include a practical exam which takes place a few days after the final test according to the timetables of each high school. For these practical exams, candidates must choose a theme at random from those proposed and demonstrate their mastery of the subject and/or their practical skills in front of a jury of professors.
The Arts specialty test includes an oral test which is organized under the same conditions as the practical scientific tests. Find the details of the course of each test in our papers dedicated to the twelve specialty courses listed above.
Important element: the marks of the final specialty tests are included in the Parcoursup application file (the post-baccalaureate admission platform). Last year, that was not the case. Said ordeals had indeed taken place too late for that. Instead, the continuous assessment scores for these same specialties of the Parcoursup candidates, obtained in Première and during the first two terms of terminale, were taken into account.
