SUBJECTS PHYSICS CHEMISTRY. Terminale high school students who have taken the physics-chemistry option will be assessed on this subject for the baccalaureate exam. What test awaits them on March 20 and 21?
First part of the bac exam, the specialty tests are approaching. The high school students chose which subjects to study, aware that they would be evaluated on these subjects for obtaining the diploma of the baccalaureate. Those who opted for physics-chemistry courses in Première and renewed this choice in Terminale will therefore work on the associated test Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 March, from 2 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. in mainland France and Mayotte, from 8 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. in the other overseas departments. Don’t panic, no one will take the exam twice. However, two sessions are organised, with different subjects from day to day, to allow all candidates to take the test. The 11 specialty exams are grouped over three days, which can complicate the organization of the exams.
3h30 of test therefore for the written part of the exam, because the mark of physics-chemistry, which is worth coefficient 16 for the average of the baccalaureate, also takes into account a practical test of one hour organized later, according to a high school calendar. However, the written part of the specialty test represents 80% of the mark and is played over three independent exercises. To vary the pleasures, each exercise is likely to relate to different notions or themes but included in the Terminale program. The objective is to use the candidate’s scientific reasoning, knowledge and abilities to solve problems or understand a scientific phenomenon. On the subject side, several possibilities but no surprises. High school students will be assessed on some of the four main themes of the Terminale program: “constitution and transformation of matter”, “movement and interactions”, “energy: conversions and transfer” or “waves and signals”.
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Physics and chemistry corrections Wednesday May 11:
Physics and chemistry answers Thursday, May 12:
Of the two subjects of the 2022 baccalaureate, the first proposed a main exercise, scored on 10 points, focused on chemistry with the study of the behavior of molecules in relation to the dye E127, when the other exercises dealt with the physics of juggling or operation of a cardiac defibrillator. The order of the exercises was reversed in the second subject with a first exercise focused on physics and the observation of the planet Mars, while the other problems were interested in the aroma of vanilla or the functioning of batteries. For each subject, the students had documents to help their thinking. Note that the use of the calculator is most often authorized, unless otherwise indicated on the first page of the exam.
Physics-chemistry subjects Wednesday, May 11:
Physics-chemistry subjects Thursday, May 12:
After the written physics-chemistry test on March 20 and 21, the practical test will last one hour. The date is chosen on a case-by-case basis by the schools. As for the subject, each academy retains a certain number of assessment situations from those available on the National Subject Bank of National Education. At the time of the examination, the candidate draws lots for an evaluation situation “from a subset, renewed every half-day, of at least two predominantly physical evaluation situations and two predominantly physical evaluation situations. chemistry,” according to the ministry. He then has one hour to carry out the requested manipulations.
If the specialty exams are held several months before the written philosophy, French or oral examinations, the results will be published at the same time for all baccalaureate exams, i.e. Tuesday, July 4, 2023. As a reminder, the physics-chemistry exam being made up of two parts, the final mark is obtained by multiplying the mark for the written test by 0.8 and the mark for the practical test by 0.2.