BACCALAUREATE. We’re already there! Candidates for the 2023 baccalaureate exam pass their specialty exams in a few days. An important moment not to be overlooked for graduation.
Terminale students have been actively preparing for it since the start of the school year, the deadline has even been on their minds since the first class: from next Monday to Wednesday, between March 20 and 22, 2023, candidates for the baccalaureate 2023 face their two specialty tests. For the first time since the creation of the baccalaureate, students are immersed in the stress of the exam from the month of March, which is not at all insignificant in terms of preparation: the last few weeks have been quite intensive, with revisions active since January.
The 2023 baccalaureate exams will then continue with the anticipated French exams for first year students, then with the philosophy exam and the grand oral in June. Throughout the 2023 session, we suggest that you follow the baccalaureate deadlines with our advice on the final preparations, the probable subjects and then the written tests for this edition of the baccalaureate, with the corresponding contents and answers.
The specialty tests are part of the final tests that complete the continuous assessment of the new baccalaureate. In the final year, each high school student chose two specialties of their choice from among twelve possible subjects: Arts, History-Geography, Geopolitics and Political Science, Humanity, Literature, Philosophy, Literature and Ancient Languages ??and Cultures, Languages, Literatures and Foreign Cultures and regional sciences, Mathematics, Numerical and computer sciences, Physics-chemistry, Economic and social sciences, Engineering sciences and Life and earth sciences.
Each specialty test is scored on a coefficient of 16. The specialty tests correspond to 32% of the final mark (out of the 60% non-continuous assessment).
To help you prepare for the tests, we offer annals and revision advice. This year, some subjects are more likely than others, even if it is important not to cut corners in your revisions: the correctors are sensitive to the fact that the candidates use all the knowledge acquired during the last two years, as soon as they are mobilized in a relevant way.
All of the baccalaureate specialty subjects that the candidates worked on in May during the previous edition of the baccalaureate can be consulted below, as well as their answers. You will also find in these articles our revision tips on for each 2023 specialty exam:
The dates of the 2023 general and technological baccalaureate exams run between Monday March 20 and Friday June 30, 2023. The general written exams take place on Tuesday June 13, Wednesday June 14, Thursday June 15, Friday June 16, and Monday June 19 to Friday, June 23, 2023.
N.B.: the date of the French oral exam is set by each academy, generally after the written tests.
Each year, Linternaute.com tries to provide you with the best information on the baccalaureate with all the subjects of the baccalaureate and the answers the same day of the tests. The latest specialty topics, unveiled in early May, are available further down this page. Philo, French, great oral… Over the course of the year, we first deliver to you the probable subjects and what to expect during the next tests, then the fallen subjects and their corrections, all in real time :
The baccalaureate and high school reform put in place by the government began to be applied in schools with the start of the school year in September 2019. As for the first baccalaureate truly impacted by the reform, it took place in 2021. also began in January 2020 their “E3C”, or common continuous assessment tests for the 2021 baccalaureate, which were subsequently abolished. But it was in 2022 that we were able to take the real measure of the bac reform, with an almost entirely renewed edition: the new bac entered 100% in force in 2022.
In this new formula baccalaureate, the final exams (French in first, specialties in May, then major oral and philosophy in June) count “only” for 60% of the total mark of the new baccalaureate. Their result is indeed completed by 40% of continuous control, on the five subjects of the common core.
As specified by the Ministry of Education on its website, “the baccalaureate diploma is issued, in the general and in the technological path, in view of the results obtained by the candidate, on the one hand in final tests which represent 60% of his overall mark, and on the other hand to the evaluations organized during his schooling in first and final classes as part of a continuous assessment which represents 40% of his overall mark”. Continuous assessment is now fully integrated into the baccalaureate in order to assess the disciplines of the common core, i.e. 5 subjects:
The grand oral is one of the new tests initiated by the reform of the baccalaureate in 2018. It is rated coefficient 10 in the general stream and coefficient 14 in the technological stream. The high school students worked on this test for the new baccalaureate for the first time during the 2021 session. The grade for the grand oral is based both on the candidate’s knowledge, transmitted during his presentation, and on his general expression. The grand oral is spread over 40 minutes, with a preparation time of twenty minutes to prepare the answer to his question, then a passage time of twenty minutes including: five minutes of presentation, then ten minutes of jury interview / candidate on the selected topic and finally five minutes of discussion around the candidate’s orientation project.
For the written exams of the general baccalaureate, the student works on a text commentary or on an essay. The test lasts 4 hours. It is scored out of 20 points. At the level of the technological baccalaureate, the duration and the notation are the same, but the tests differ in part (contraction of text, essay).
The oral French counting for the general and technological baccalaureate consists of two parts, with a preparation time of half an hour beforehand. The first part of the test (12 minutes, scored on 12 points) consists of a preparation of the text validated by the examiner, a reading of the text aloud, a linear explanation of a passage of about twenty lines and an answer to a grammar question about the text. The second part of the test (8 minutes, scored out of 8 points) aims to present the work chosen from those studied in class.
The new baccalaureate, passed for the first time in full in 2022, includes a new coefficient for each test. Some specialties evaluated in continuous assessment for the general terminals can reach coefficients of 16, when the great oral passes to the coefficient 10, the philosophy to the coefficient 8, the French (final tests of first) and the EPS (continuous control in terminal) to the coefficient 3. To know in detail these new coefficients for the general baccalaureate following the reform of the baccalaureate, follow the links below.
As confirmed by the official website of the Ministry of Education, the general written exams for the vocational baccalaureate, common to all candidates, take place on Tuesday 13, Wednesday 14, Thursday 15, Friday 16 June, and from Monday 19 to Friday 23 June 2023.
When are the bac results made public? How to consult them? How are they taken into account by Parcoursup? Or how are the catch-ups organized for those who did not get their baccalaureate on the first try? The baccalaureate results raise many questions each year. With the new form of the baccalaureate, the questions are undoubtedly even more numerous for this 2023 edition of the precious exam. The answers in our special page:
Officially named “second group tests”, the remedial process is intended for all candidates whose average is between 8 and 9.99/20 at the end of the first session of the baccalaureate. Each candidate must choose two tests to retake to recover a maximum of points, at the same coefficient as in mid-June. The students submitted to the remedial session are fixed at the beginning of the week following the results of the baccalaureate, the repechages taking place in the days following the result of the 1st group. The precise dates and times of the remedial orals are traditionally communicated to the candidates at their place of examination, after having chosen the subjects to be retaken. The 2023 baccalaureate remedial orals take place from Wednesday July 5 to Friday July 7, 2023 (inclusive).