Written by Hélène Geoffroy
The baccalaureate exams started this Tuesday, June 18, 2024. The approximately 16,600 general and technological final year students at the Nancy-Metz Academy worked on philosophy this Tuesday. An ordeal that did not seem to stress the students we met.
Great start for final year students. This Tuesday, June 18, 2024, the 11,769 students in the general sector and 4,843 students in the technological sector at the Nancy-Metz Academy discovered their philosophy tests. On the program for the general sector: two dissertations proposed with science or the State as themes and a text commentary on “Simone Weil, the Working Condition”.
A subject that can be confusing since the character studied does not echo the politician but the French philosopher: “My test went pretty well but I was wrong about Simone Weil, I thought she was the one we all know. I think I won’t be penalized too much on this because I haven’t developed too much on the person”, explains this high school student, after her test in front of the Henri Poincaré high school in Nancy. Others like Arthur did not let themselves be trapped: “I knew the philosopher. I major in HLP (humanities, literature and philosophy) so we studied it. Plus the name of the French politician is with a “V” so I wasn’t wrong”.
Students in the technology sector had to choose between two essay topics, one on nature and the other on the artist, or a commentary text on an extract from the book “Laws” of Plato. Elias in his final year in technology in the hospitality section decided to compose on the commentary text: “It was pretty simple, overall it worked out. Afterwards, there was a notion of politics that we had not had in the program so it was a bit of a trap but it worked out”says the young man.
Whatever the sector, the majority of high school students interviewed approached this first baccalaureate test with confidence: “I didn’t stress because with the continuous assessment, we already know that we have the baccalaureate, plus I don’t have too much difficulty in philosophy”indicates Lio who chose the subject “Does the state owe us anything?”. Her friend Roxane especially fears the specialty tests: “I specialize in History of the Arts and Economic and Social Sciences (SES). It’s the SES that stresses me out the most”. Lio, adds: “The specs are the most complicated”.
The final year students are not finished yet. From this Wednesday until June 21, they will work on the tests of their specialties. A final stage, the grand oral, will then await them between June 24 and July 3.
