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Le baccalauréat — spécialités, contrôle continu, the Grand oral and the philosophy paper everyone remembers.
The French baccalauréat combines continuous assessment across première and terminale with final examinations in your chosen spécialités, philosophy and the Grand oral. Parcoursup, the national admissions platform, runs in parallel and uses your results from before the final exams — which means the application is decided partly on work done well before the bac itself.
Start free →How the French system is shaped
Collège
Four years ending in the diplôme national du brevet.
Seconde
A general year before choosing spécialités for the final two years.
Première et terminale
Three spécialités in première narrowing to two in terminale, plus French, philosophy and the Grand oral.
The calendar you are actually planning against
- Academic year
- Early September to early July.
- Exam season
- The French written and oral examinations at the end of première; spécialité examinations, philosophy and the Grand oral in terminale.
- University entry
- Parcoursup handles applications, with wishes submitted in the winter and responses from the spring. Because it uses bulletins from première and terminale rather than final bac results, the application is substantially decided before the examinations are sat.
- Boards covered
- Baccalauréat
Eight teachers, one subscription
They are AI, and we will not pretend otherwise. What is real is the work they produce against French requirements.
Daniel · Study planner
Builds the week backwards from the real timetable. The French written and oral examinations at the end of première; spécialité examinations, philosophy and the Grand oral in terminale. Sessions go into your calendar as real events, not onto a wall chart.
Sarah · Subject tutor
Explains what you are stuck on at the level your qualification actually assesses, then checks you have understood it.
Margaret · Librarian
Finds sources, summarises them at three depths, and formats citations in MLA, APA, Chicago or Harvard.
Tommy · Quizzer
Turns what you have understood into spaced-repetition cards and brings them back until you can recall them cold.
Eleanor · Writing coach
Reviews essay structure and argument, and tells you where a marker would lose the thread.
Charles · Citation checker
Verifies every in-text citation resolves to a real entry in your bibliography.
Penny · Proofreader
Catches grammar, spelling and clarity problems without flattening your voice.
Sam · Accountability
Tells you honestly when the plan has stopped being realistic, early enough to change it.
France: fair questions
Does Parcoursup change how I should plan?
Yes, and it is the thing students most often underestimate: it reads your bulletins from première and terminale, so the marks that decide your place are earned months before the bac. Daniel plans to both timelines rather than only the exam one.
Can you help with the Grand oral?
Yes — it is a distinct skill, defending a prepared question under examination. Sarah runs practice in French, and Eleanor works on the structure of the argument you are defending.
Can you work in French?
Throughout. The teachers explain, discuss and give feedback in French, which matters most for philosophie and the français papers.
Built around the French calendar.
Free for seven days, no credit card. Tell us your board and your exam dates, and the plan follows France's timetable rather than a generic one.
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