For secondary students, this is the fateful time of the year: the choice of specialties. If the reform of the school begins its second year, it remains a source of concern among high school students, for whom this strategic decision can prove to be very difficult to take.
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Because even if some already know what they want to do after the bac, deciding on a limited number of specialties is not easy. Mathilde has already changed her mind four or five times since the start of the year. But now, she is finally thinking of holding her three options, she assures Europe 1. "I think I will take humanity, literature and philosophy. It is focused on the art of speech and I find it super important" , explains the student who also cites "foreign language, literature and culture. And history geopolitical geography and political science", but who admits having "forgotten mathematics".
"I'm afraid I didn't take the right subjects"
However, for her parents, it was unthinkable that she stop this matter at the end of the second. "My mother, my big sister, who is in high school, and my father all wanted me to take math at the beginning ... And I don't know, after a while they stopped telling me," she remembers, regretting that the professors cannot tell them very clearly which options to favor for which higher studies.
ON DECRYPTED-Why is high school reform so criticized?For others, who still don't know what they will do after the bac, deciding on the three options is a challenge. This is the case of Sarah, who has for the moment drawn up a list of five very varied specialties: "I would very much like to take mathematics, SVT (life and earth sciences), history, physics-chemistry, or English ", she lists before confiding:" I am afraid of finding what I want to do next and of not having taken the right subjects ".
This kind of situation pushes guidance counselors to repeat the same advice: "Take the subjects that interest you!"