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Bac 2021: “This year, it is useless to revise! "

2021-05-25T05:08:29.504Z


The recent adjustments to the exams do not encourage final year students to cram. Even the most motivated have a hard time. Testimonials.


On the second floor of the Nelson-Mandela library, in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), at the back of the youth department, an isolated room accommodates around ten young people who have come to study together.

"If I stayed at home, I would never do anything," says Imane, in the final year of high school Jean-Macé, located in the same city.

Here, she can count on the support of volunteers from the Jeunes Solidaires association to help her prepare for the grand oral.

This unprecedented baccalaureate test is the only one, with the philosophy writing, on June 17, maintained for the final year.

The conditions are ideal: space, equipment and mutual aid.

“We are not always on our phones and then, seeing others work, it motivates,” describes Mauryne, 17 years old.

Revising at home was mission impossible anyway: “There is always someone who bothers me.

"Imane, who dreams of joining Sciences-po next year, is a little worried:" We don't really know how the grand oral will go and neither our teachers, we are going to be guinea pigs.

But she's one of the few to worry so much about it.

“Most of the graduates who had registered no longer come,” notes Amélie, a volunteer with Jeunes Solidaires

.

"I can't get out of bed"

Like many, Elias, 19, has completely given up on revisions: "This year, because of the Covid, the continuous assessment accounts for 82% of the baccalaureate and we know that for the grand oral, they will be very forgiving", explains this final year student at Francs-Bourgeois, in Paris. As for the philosophy test, only the best result will count: the examination mark or the average in class. So, for him, as for many, zero pressure: “I prefer to concentrate on other projects such as taking the permit or finding a summer job. Locked in his small room, in reality, he mostly spends a lot of time on video games. A situation that worries his parents: “They always ask me: what about

the baccalaureate?

"

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Crossed just before their entry into class, Alexandre, Inès and Majda, in their final year at Claude-Monet, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, are happy to do some face-to-face work.

All day long at home, they too found it more and more difficult to follow the video lessons.

“I go to bed super late and in the morning, I can't get out of bed,” Alexandre admits.

Inès, she took almost no distance learning: "It's a real pain because my mother monopolizes the computer ..." As for the baccalaureate exams, the three high school students are categorical: "It is useless to revise this year!

"

Concerned parents

In Yvetot, in Normandy, Marie is just as relaxed.

Thanks to his good results in philosophy, 15 average in the first quarter and 16 in the second, no need to work too much.

And so much the better, because listening to her teacher for hours behind a computer screen, because of the half-gauge still in force, she can't do it either.

"Over the course of my day, my motivation wanes…", she confides.

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Her main worry is where she will be studying when the new school year begins. In particular, she applied to a network of engineering schools. The answers should fall in a few days. Afterwards, it will be deliverance. Her mother, Dominique, does not want to put pressure on her, but she is worried: “I see her get up in bed five minutes before class, it's impossible to be concentrated like that. "She also asks herself a lot of questions about her future:" How will she manage the stress of competitions or exams? "

Source: leparis

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