The philosophy subject is revealed this Tuesday, June 18. Philosophy opens the written tests for the 2024 baccalaureate, and it remains the queen test.
The essential
- This Tuesday, June 18, baccalaureate candidates take the philosophy test, a test which traditionally opens the marathon of baccalaureate tests and these crucial exams for final year students. The event takes place from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
- The subjects are reproduced on this page, posted online around 9:15 a.m.
- This news feed allows you to discover philosophy topics, but also to find our comments and access correction elements in due time.
The philosophy subjects are communicated this Tuesday, June 18 quite early, only 1 hour 15 minutes after the start of the test. For what ? Because the Ministry of National Education tolerates a delay of one hour for all candidates called to go to their examination room. Beyond this deadline, the candidate will be eliminated from this test and will be awarded a zero. From then on, the subjects can be made public, since there are no more leaks from this deadline. Find the 2024 philosophy subjects for baccalaureate candidates, by sector, thanks to our partnership with Studyrama.
General baccalaureate philosophy subject
Philosophy subject of the techno baccalaureate
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07:29 – No secret: to pass the philosophy test, you have to be organized
To succeed in this Tuesday’s test, you must know how to manage your writing time to devote enough time to each part of your assignment. Read the proposed topics carefully and choose the one you know best. Make a rough draft to structure your ideas before writing it out. Include quotes from philosophers to support your points. Be precise in your formulations and avoid generalities, and use examples: illustrate your arguments with relevant examples from philosophy, history or current events.
07:24 – Have confidence in yourself
Remember your revisions and be confident in your abilities. Read the topics carefully: Take the time to fully understand each topic proposed, whether it is an essay or a text explanation. Choose wisely what you are going to work on: select the topic you are most comfortable with and have the most ideas about.
07:15 – No off-topic today! This is crucial!
Be careful, candidates who decide to tackle text commentary this year have two pitfalls to avoid. First off-topic, you need to take the time to understand the concepts studied in the text extract and clearly identify the question they raise. Once this step has been completed, you must not take the easy route and paraphrase the text, which amounts to a bit of the same thing: you will not cover the subject, you would be repeating it and that is not what is expected. The objective is to explain the author’s thoughts always with arguments developed thanks to the knowledge acquired during the year.
07:12 – The philosophy test starts in less than an hour!
Welcome to this great live. This thread powered by the editorial staff is here to give you the 2024 philosophy subjects, for all candidates taking the baccalaureate exams. You will also find comments and corrections here. Good luck to all the candidates who will be in front of their paper in less than 50 minutes!
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The first candidates to take the 2024 baccalaureate philosophy test, high school students from the centers of North America this year had the subjects: “How to be happy if nothing lasts”, “Can we speak without knowing” as well as ‘an explanation of the text to be made from an extract from the Interviews of Epictetus.
For candidates from other foreign centers, the dissertation topics this year were: “Does art help us to live” and “Why should we trust science”, when explaining the text, it concerned a passage from theNicomachean Ethics of Aristotle. Proof of this is that everything must be revised, the themes of “happiness”, “art” and “science” which are not, however, among the probable subjects for the 2024 baccalaureate, have fallen.
For other foreign centers, the baccalaureate exams will begin in a few days, just before the start of the baccalaureate in mainland Reunion and Mayotte. Last year, they had to compose on the following subjects, transcribed by the site Baccalaureate subject.
Subject of foreign centers of group 1 for the general route
- Topic 1: Can we agree on what is right?
- Topic 2: Does language distort thought?
- Topic 3: Explaining a text extract from Madrid Conference on the Human Soul (1916), by Bergson in relation to freedom and science.
Subject of foreign centers of group 1 for the professional route
- Topic 1: Does religion involve renouncing reason?
- Topic 2: Are we really sensitive to injustice?
- Topic 3: Explain an extract from The future of an illusion (1927), by Freud in connection with the notions of culture and nature
Each year, the results of baccalaureate candidates are published on a single date and, in 2024, they will fall on July 8. After the philosophy test, final year high school students will have to wait around twenty days before knowing their grade. Fortunately, the publication of the corrections, scheduled a few hours after the test, allows us to have an idea of the quality of the work rendered and therefore of the mark obtained. You can find the answers to the test as soon as they are published on Linternaute.com. Note that in philosophy, the work of argumentation is as, if not more, important than the answer itself.