With a view to the second year of the baccalaureate reform, which continues to be controversial, second year pupils must determine the subjects which will constitute their specialty education in first and then in terminal. Problem, many are in the uncertainty concerning the subjects which they must choose. They fear in fact to close doors in relation to the course they want to follow after the baccalaureate.
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"A priori, there will be no closure of choice"
Mathilde wants to do law school, she has already changed her mind four or five times on the choice of her specialties since the beginning of the year. After careful consideration his choice fell on the trio: "humanities, literature and philosophy; language, literature and foreign culture; history geopolitical geography and political science." This choice leads to a second, "we forget the math". A decision that his family did not support at the beginning: "My mother, my older sister who is in final, my father, they all wanted me to take math and in the end they stopped telling me".
What she deplores is that the teachers cannot tell them very clearly which options should be favored for which higher education. Sarah, she does not know what she wants to do after the bac so choosing three options worries her: "I'm afraid of finding what I want to do and not having taken the right subjects". Thibaut Cojean, head of high school and college section at L 'Etudiant wants to be reassuring. "Before we could, with the Bac S, ES and L, say 'Bac L will close doors'. Today the students who will return first, it is their journey that will be valued, there a priori, there will be no choice closure ".
Only imperative: math for scientific studies
An exception remains underlines Thibaut Cojean: "The math specialty has been identified as essential by several higher education, but it is almost the only one. If the pupils know that they want to make scientific studies they must take the math. "
For students who, like Sarah, still hesitate between "mathematics, SVT, history, physics-chemistry or English", Thibaut Cojean advises "to go towards subjects in which one flourishes because what will count for the entry into higher education above all, these are the grades they will have more than the choice of their specialties. To get good grades you have to go into subjects you like. You have to see specialties as subjects that 'we want to learn ".