The baccalaureate exams allow each year to collect quite offbeat answers from the candidates: an anthology of bac pearls.
In a few days, after philosophy and French, the pearls of the baccalaureate will flock to social networks, as the progress of the corrections of the tests. Some teachers will be better off than others thanks to the sometimes monumental errors of the students. But if you are one of the latter, rest assured: being the author a “pearl” in the baccalaureate will not necessarily mean failing the test. Making your corrector smile with a turn of phrase or an improbable inaccuracy may even, who knows, put him in a good mood…
Trials in spite of themselves create a favorable context for ever more lunar inventions. That of history-geography is the best example. The famous “a crusade is a boat trip organized by the pope”, found among the best pearls of the latest vintages, is a fine example. Expressions can also create confusion as on this copy: “As often the people took it out on a goat and mystery”.
One response particularly marked the 2022 baccalaureate for the Hitek media: at the instruction “cite a great navigator”, a candidate for the baccalaureate, ignoring Christopher Columbus, Magellan or Vasco da Gama, tried the answer… “Android” . This operating system is certainly renowned for its speed, but unfortunately it does not sail on water…
The philosophy test is also one of the most conducive to this kind of blunder. In 2022, the Parisian compiled the pearls of this material. When asked “Does freedom consist in obeying no one?”, a daring student launched into his argument: “For example, if I say, I refuse to take this subject of philosophy from the supervisor who give it is that I’m free not to do this philosophy baccalaureate because I don’t want to. But I’m reasonable, so I do it, but I lose my freedom.”
Another pearl, to the question “Is it up to the State to decide what is fair?”, the answer: “If I find it fair to break up with my girlfriend because she is annoying and I no longer want to suffer it is for me to decide, not for the judge.”
In French, homonyms often mislead as in this copy: “They spend all the time time in the forest”. Not easy to choose between time, Eure, their, their or lure! The rule of putting an “s” in the plural was also taken at face value: “The third person plural”.
The materials can be mixed to create beautiful approximations: “Olympe de Gouges fought for the abolition of slavery as Martin Luther King did”. This pioneer of feminism was guillotined in 1793, while the American pastor was assassinated in 1968. Women’s rights had particularly inspired high school students in 2022: “George Sand is trying to fight against gender inequality and therefore why women cannot not have the same rights as men when we are the same, just the only thing that differentiates us is sex.” (sic)
