Since Monday morning, Terminale students have been called for the grand oral, an unprecedented test of the new baccalaureate, the preparation of which has suffered from the Covid-19 health crisis.

They are indeed more than 525,000 to be summoned between Monday and July 2 for twenty minutes of presentation and discussions with a jury.

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The test was feared by future baccalaureate holders, much more than that of philosophy.

From this Monday morning, half a million high school students are invited to take the grand oral of the baccalaureate.

After five minutes of oral presentation on one or two subjects prepared in advance, followed by a 20-minute interview with a jury, the first high school students finally breathe.

Because it is a great first for the candidates, but also for the teachers.

"An eventful year"

At the exit, the feelings are quite mixed.

Impossible for future baccalaureate holders, even after a few white oral exams, to know whether they have passed their test or not.

This is the case of Ramez, 19, a student in the sciences and technologies of management and management.

He was taking his grand oral in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.

"I chose a subject called management and finance. I think it was, but I do not know exactly what will happen now," admits the young man.

"It is true that it was complicated this story of great oral with confinement. The year was quite eventful," he continues.

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For him, no stress before the test. "In fact, I arrived, I spoke for 20 minutes and I'm going home. That's it, I've finished my tests, I'm calm. My program now will be to find a school to do a work-study program. next year, ”Ramez explains. This is not the case for all. Many high school graduates will still have their nose in their revision sheets, because the tests will continue for ten days.