It’s D-Day: the 2023 baccalaureate specialty exams start today. Follow with us this exam day, with the subjects unveiled live.
The essential
- This Monday, March 20, 2023, nearly 500,000 students take their first baccalaureate specialty test.
- The tests must take place without incident, despite calls for a strike launched by teachers to mark their opposition to the pension reform.
- The subjects of the specialty tests are made public this Monday afternoon, around 3:15 p.m. We suggest you find them on this article, live.
Live
11:19 – The Minister of Education travels for the launch of the baccalaureate specialty exams
This Monday, March 20, Pap Ndiaye, Minister of National Education and Youth, must go to a Parisian high school at 1:30 p.m. for the first day of the written specialty tests for the 2023 session of the general and technological baccalaureate, which will take place as a reminder until March 22. Once in the high school, discussions are planned with the Minister on the establishment as well as on the organization of the specialty exams for the 2023 baccalaureate. the mathematics specialty test, with “symbolic opening of an envelope and a word of encouragement to the students of the class”.
10:22 – How long do the 2023 baccalaureate specialty exams last?
The “spe tests” for the 2023 baccalaureate are organized over three days: Monday 20, Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 March 2023. Note that they only take place in the afternoons and last between three and a half and four hours. hours.
10:17 – The 2023 baccalaureate specialty exams start this Monday! Follow their news in this live
SVT, History-geo, maths or even Humanities, literature and philosophy… The first day of the specialty tests corresponds to this Monday, March 20, 2023 throughout metropolitan France. Follow their news in this live throughout the day!
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The specialty tests are part of the final tests that complete the continuous assessment of the new baccalaureate. In the final year, each high school student chose two specialties of their choice from among twelve possible subjects: Arts, History-geography, geopolitics and political science, Humanity, literature, philosophy, Literature and languages and cultures of antiquity, Languages, literatures and foreign cultures and regional sciences, Mathematics, Digital and computer sciences, Physics-chemistry, Economic and social sciences, Engineering sciences and Life and earth sciences. Each specialty test is scored on a coefficient of 16. The specialty tests correspond to 32% of the final mark (out of the 60% of non-continuous assessment).
What are the specialty subjects for the 2023 baccalaureate?
All of the baccalaureate specialty subjects on which the candidates are working during this edition of the baccalaureate can be consulted below, as well as their answers when they are accessible:
The dates of the 2023 general and technological baccalaureate exams are between Monday 20 March and Friday 30 June 2023. The general written exams take place on Tuesday 13, Wednesday 14, Thursday 15, Friday 16 June, and from Monday 19 to Friday, June 23, 2023.
- Specialty exams (for senior high school students, covering the two now compulsory specialty courses): Monday 20, Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 March 2023, at 2 p.m.
- The philosophy test : Wednesday June 14, 2023 in the morning
- Advance written French tests (for first year students): Thursday, June 15, 2023 in the morning
- The great oral : from Monday June 19 to Friday June 30, 2023
NB: the date of the French oral exam is set by each academy, generally following the written tests.
| Test | Date | Schedule |
| Philosophy | Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | Morning, exact times to come |
| Advance written test of French | Thursday, June 15, 2023 | Morning, exact times to come |
| French oral | In the second half of June 2023 | See invitation |
| Great oral | From Monday 19 June to Friday 30 June 2023 | See invitation |
| Catch-up | From Wednesday 5 to Friday 7 July 2023 | See invitation |
As specified by the Ministry of Education on his site“the baccalaureate diploma is issued, in the general and in the technological path, in view of the results obtained by the candidate, on the one hand in final tests which represent 60% of his overall mark, and on the other hand to the assessments organized during his schooling in first and final classes as part ofcontinuous control which represents 40% its overall mark”. Continuous assessment is now fully integrated into the baccalaureate in order to assess the disciplines of the common core, i.e. 5 subjects:
- history geography
- modern languages A and B (2 subjects)
- physical education and sports (EPS)
- general science education
- technologically advanced mathematics
The grand oral is one of the new tests initiated by the reform of the baccalaureate in 2018. It is rated coefficient 10 in the general stream and coefficient 14 in the technological stream. The high school students worked on this test for the new baccalaureate for the first time during the 2021 session. The grade for the grand oral is based both on the candidate’s knowledge, transmitted during his presentation, and on his general expression. The great oral is spread over 40 minutes, with a preparation time of twenty minutes to prepare the answer to his question, then a passage time of twenty minutes including: five minutes of presentation, then ten minutes of jury interview / candidate on the selected subject and finally five minutes of discussion around the candidate’s orientation project.
For the written exams of the general baccalaureate, the student works on a text commentary or on an essay. The test lasts 4 hours. It is scored out of 20 points. At the level of the technological baccalaureate, the duration and the notation are the same, but the tests differ in part (contraction of text, essay).
French oral counting for the general and technological baccalaureate consists of two parts, with a preparation time of half an hour beforehand. The first part of the test (12 minutes, scored out of 12 points) consists of preparing the text validated by the examiner, reading the text aloud, a linear explanation of a passage of about twenty lines and an answer to a grammar question about the text. The second part of the test (8 minutes, scored out of 8 points) aims to present the work chosen from among those studied in class.
The new baccalaureate, passed for the first time in full in 2022, includes a new coefficient for each test. Some specialties evaluated in continuous assessment for the general terminals can reach coefficients of 16, when the great oral passes to the coefficient 10, the philosophy to the coefficient 8, the French (final tests of first) and the EPS (continuous control in terminal) to the coefficient 3. To know in detail these new coefficients for the general baccalaureate following the reform of the baccalaureate, follow the links below.
As confirmed by the official website of the Ministry of Educationthe general written exams for the vocational baccalaureate, common to all candidates, take place on Tuesday 13, Wednesday 14, Thursday 15, Friday 16 June, and from Monday 19 to Friday 23 June 2023.
When are the baccalaureate results made public? How to consult them? How are they taken into account by Parcoursup? Or how are the catch-ups organized for those who did not get their baccalaureate on the first try? The baccalaureate results raise many questions every year. With the new format of the baccalaureate, the questions are undoubtedly even more numerous for this 2023 edition of the precious exam. The answers in our special page:
Officially called “second group tests”, the remedial process is intended for all candidates whose average is between 8 and 9.99/20 at the end of the first session of the baccalaureate. Each candidate must choose two tests to retake to recover a maximum of points, at the same coefficient as in mid-June. The students submitted to the remedial session are fixed at the beginning of the week following the results of the baccalaureate, the repechages taking place in the days following the result of the 1st group. The precise dates and times of the remedial orals are traditionally communicated to the candidates at their place of examination, after having chosen the subjects to be retaken. The 2023 baccalaureate remedial orals take place from Wednesday July 5 to Friday July 7, 2023 (included).