GEO HISTORY BAC. The history-geography, geopolitics and political science specialty test (HGGSP) is one of those that opens the 2022 baccalaureate ball in France this Wednesday, May 11. The subjects will be known in the afternoon.
[Mis à jour le 11 mai 2022 à 12h10] The history-geography, geopolitics and political science specialty test (HGGSP), counting for the 2022 baccalaureate, will take place this Wednesday May 11 from 2 p.m. as well as tomorrow, Thursday May 12 for certain candidates. For 4 hours, several tens of thousands of final year students, who have kept this specialty for the final exams of the baccalaureate, will work on a dissertation and a document study, a set which amounts to a coefficient of 16 in the final mark. .
What will be the subjects of the history-geography specialty test? Some clues were given last week with the HGGSP specialty subjects that fell in French Polynesia. The themes of mastery of the seas, genocides and mass crimes since 1945, space conquest or American policies since the 19th century were in the spotlight, as well as the action of human beings on their environment since the Neolithic period or Clausewitzian thought with regard to the study of documents.
For the subject of history-geo in mainland France, it will be necessary to wait until this afternoon, with the official start of the test, to know the precise content of the exam. The subjects will remain exclusive to the exam rooms for one hour and can then be communicated to the media. Until then, the candidates can only rely on the details of the ministry, the subjects who fell in Polynesia and those of previous years. If the themes and subjects of the test will remain unknown until the end, the candidates already know the form that the history-geography exam will take and above all they know that they will have the choice among the subjects.
What are the possible subjects for the history-geography specialty test?
Difficult to make predictions on the themes of the history-geography, geopolitics and political science program (HGGSP) likely to fall on the day of the test or to have an idea of the type of problem proposed for the subjects of dissertations or the text study. However, baccalaureate candidates can read the subjects that fell last week in French Polynesia and are listed below in this article or those of the 2021 baccalaureate.
In history-geo last year, high school students had to answer the questions “What are the purposes of promoting heritage in France?”, “Cyberspace: what realities and what challenges?”, “How to build and protect knowledge ?”, discuss “the management of the environmental question by American actors at different scales” or look into the different forms of war or threats to heritage in the world thanks to a corpus of documents.
Despite the questions on the subjects of the history-geography test, baccalaureate candidates can eliminate two of the six themes that make up the program. Thanks to the new classification of the Ministry of National Education, certain subjects are only assessed during even years, others only during baccalaureates in odd years and the main themes remain possible subjects for all baccalaureate sessions. In 2022, high school students must therefore focus their revision on these four themes:
- “New areas of conquest”
- “Making war, making peace: forms of conflict and modes of resolution”
- “History and Memories
- “The environment, between exploitation and protection: a global issue”
If they can be slightly excluded, it is however not recommended to completely ignore the last two themes of the program because certain subjects being transversal some knowledge could help the candidates once in front of their copy.
What are the history-geo subjects of the 2022 baccalaureate that fell in French Polynesia?
In French Polynesia, the history-geography specialty test took place a week ahead of the metropolitan exam schedule. Two papers were distributed to applicants, a precaution often taken to avoid cheating, and each copy offered high school students two essays and a paper study, each on different topics from the history-geography curriculum. Of the three exercises, only one had to be carried out by the candidates.
Subject 1:
- Dissertation: States and control of the seas and oceans: challenges, competition and cooperation.
- Dissertation: Do US policies at different scales, since the 19th century, reflect major environmental issues?
- Study of documents: Does Clausewitzian thought allow us to understand the conflicts of the beginning of the 21st century? To answer the problem, the candidates had available the text War according to Clausewitzbased on the posthumous work of Carl von Clausewitz, Of the war from 1832 and the article by Bakary Sambe dated 2018, Changes in jihadism, Africa faced with asymmetric warfare and the imperative of prevention.
Subject 2:
- Dissertation: Judging genocides and mass crimes since 1945.
- Dissertation: The conquest of space, an ideological and power issue.
- Study of documents: Show the stages of the action of human beings on their environment since the Neolithic, by critically analyzing the documents, comparing them and relying on your knowledge. Candidates could rely on the article by François Gemenne and Marine Denis, The Anthropocene, a planetary disaster, appeared in the review Questions Internationales in 2017 and the analysis of Jean-Noel Biraben, The evolution of the number of menpublished in Populations and Societies in October 2003.
The history-geography specialty test takes place over 4 hours and is divided into two parts. The first is a dissertation and the second a document study, it can be a photo, a text or a map. The two exercises are compulsory for all candidates, but the ministry has provided for an adjustment: a doubling of the subject of the dissertation. For the first part of the test, the candidate will therefore have the choice between two different dissertation subjects, each relating to a theme of the program.
The document study will cover another theme studied during the year so that three themes out of the four probable ones are addressed, which means that no subject should be neglected during the revisions. If this seems like a greater dose of work, this instruction is above all intended to offer candidates the best chance of success.
When is the 2022 baccalaureate history-geo exam scheduled?
The history-geography test was normally to take place like all the other specialty education exams in March, but the Ministry of National Education has decided to postpone the series of tests to May to prevent certain candidates from be penalized by the consequences of the Covid-19 epidemic on the school system.
It is therefore between May 11 and May 13 that the tests are held, and that of history-geo should more precisely be organized on Wednesday May 11 and Thursday May 12 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. according to the first details of theStudent.
When will the results of the history-geography test be published?
The results of the history-geography specialty test will be available on July 5, at the same time as the results of the other tests (French, philosophy and grand oral). The fact that specialty courses are evaluated one month earlier does not affect the publication of the results.