The 2023 baccalaureate specialty exams start this Monday, March 20. Find all the key information about the device in this Linternaute article.
[Updated March 20, 2023 at 11:11 a.m.] The 2023 baccalaureate specialty exams start this Monday, March 20, afternoon. These final exams of the new bac, which are held for the first time in March, are spread over three days, i.e. until Wednesday, March 22, take place only in the afternoon and each last three and a half hours at four hours. Significant exams because they account for 32% of 60% of final exams, the remaining 40% being based on continuous assessment. Follow the news of the 2023 specialty exams and discover the fallen subjects (and their corrections) thanks to our Studyrama partnership, via our live “Bac 2023”, accessible below:
What are the latest specialty topics (and their answers)?
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 2023 subjects from foreign centers, but also the subjects and answers from the previous edition of the test:
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.
