Anaé, a Parisian student, posted a call for witnesses to prep school on Facebook. She wanted to show what young people go through before competitive exams.
In less than two days it received more than 400 responses and a thousand reposts. Prep school is a stressful period for the students who stick with it. The atmosphere does not always suit the students, some didn't hold on to the class. The goal of prep school is to succeed, not necessarily to take the exam, says Anaé, but some students don't want to take exams at the beginning of the year, because they are too scared of the exams. The school is selective and leaves little room for leisure, according to some students, and the teachers are not always the best teachers in the world. The students who testified under Anaé's post have been contacted by the school, who have responded to her post with their own stories of their time at prep school. They include: Elliot, who got 3.1/20 on a maths DS, the teacher rounded him up to π/20 for the joke.