BACCALAUREATE. We are already there! Candidates for the 2023 baccalaureate exam take their specialty exams in a few days. An important moment not to be overlooked for graduation.
Terminale students have been actively preparing for it since the start of the school year, the deadline has even been on their minds since the first class: from next Monday to Wednesday, between March 20 and 22, 2023, candidates for the baccalaureate 2023 confront their two specialty exams. For the first time since the creation of the baccalaureate, students are immersed in the stress of the exam from the month of March, which is not at all insignificant in terms of preparation: the last few weeks have been quite intensive, with revisions active since January.
The 2023 baccalaureate exams will then continue with the anticipated French exams for first year students, then with the philosophy exam and the grand oral in June. Throughout the 2023 session, we suggest that you follow the baccalaureate deadlines with our advice on the final preparations, the probable subjects and then the written tests for this edition of the baccalaureate, with the corresponding contents and answers.
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 specialty subjects for the 2023 baccalaureate?
To help you prepare for the tests, we offer annals and revision advice. This year, some subjects are more likely than others, even if it is important not to cut corners in your revisions: the correctors are sensitive to the fact that the candidates use all the knowledge acquired during the last two years, as soon as they are mobilized in a relevant way.
All the subjects of baccalaureate specialties on which the candidates worked in May during the previous edition of the baccalaureate can be consulted below, as well as their answers. You will also find in these articles our revision advice on for each 2023 specialty test:
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
- 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 |
Each year, Linternaute.com tries to provide you with the best information on the baccalaureate with all the subjects of the baccalaureate and the answers the same day of the tests. The latest specialty topics, unveiled in early May, are available further down this page. Philo, French, great oral… Over the course of the year, we first deliver to you the probable subjects and what to expect during the next tests, then the fallen subjects and their corrections, all in real time :
The baccalaureate and high school reform put in place by the government began to be applied in schools during the back to school September 2019 school year. As for the first baccalaureate truly impacted by the reform, it took place in 2021. The Première also started their “E3C” in January 2020, or common continuous assessment tests for the 2021 baccalaureate, which were subsequently abolished . But it was in 2022 that we were able to take the real measure of the bac reform, with an almost entirely renewed edition: the new bac entered 100% in force in 2022.
In this new formula baccalaureate, the final exams (French in first, specialties in May, then major oral and philosophy in June) count “only” for 60% of the total mark of the new baccalaureate. Their result is indeed completed by 40% of continuous control, on the five subjects of the common core.
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 each 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).