Will you pass the French test for the primary school certificate?

Until 1989, but before that in 1975, date of the establishment of the single college, it symbolized the end of the compulsory education of a pupil having followed a course of primary studies in France and sanctioned the transition to secondary school. .

Created in 1866 at the instigation of Victor Duruy, and instituted by the Ferry law of 1882, the certificate of primary studies attested to the acquisition of elementary knowledge in calculation, history, geography, science, but also in writing and reading. .

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Aimed mainly at students who did not go to college, over the decades the extension of compulsory education led to its disappearance.

A myth was then born around this prestigious diploma.

Birth partly due to the growing decline in the level of young people in French.

The exam included a writing test and a spelling test, which included the traditional exercise of dictation.

Conjugation, grammar, and text explanations gave our dear darlings a hard time.

Like them, will you pass the primary school certificate tests in force from the 1930s to the 1960s?

challenges you to get a 10/10 on this test.