Europe 1 with AFP 7:51 p.m., March 09, 2023

This Thursday evening marks the last opportunity for Terminale students to fill out their wish forms, concerning their future higher education, on the Parcoursup platform.

They are nearly 950,000 young people having to issue their decisions, before midnight, with a maximum of ten choices in the training proposal. 

Last hours of reflection for high school students in Terminale, who have until midnight Thursday to formulate their wishes in Parcoursup, before continuing with another stressful deadline, the bac specialty tests, which will be held for the first time in March .

Since January 18 and until Thursday evening, Terminale students and reorientation students must register and select their higher education wishes on Parcoursup, from among 21,000 state-recognized training courses.

Each candidate can formulate ten wishes, without having to classify them, and fill in sub-wishes according to the training.

Once this deadline has passed, students will have until April 6 to complete their file (cover letters, activities and areas of interest, etc.) on the higher education admission platform, and confirm their wishes.

"Since January, the phase of formulating wishes has taken me a lot of time, between research on the internet and the various open doors in Ile-de-France. I did not think that this phase was going to be so stressful", a testified to AFP Kris, 17, a student in Terminale at the Hélène-Boucher high school in Paris.

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"And it's not over. The stress continues anyway, because the specialty tests start in ten days," he adds.

This stage comes in fact while the high school students of Terminale pass these high coefficient tests in ten days, on Monday 20, Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 March.

The candidates will each work on two tests, which together count for a third of the results of the baccalaureate, calculated on 100 points.

This is the first time since the implementation of the baccalaureate reform that Terminale students take these specialty tests in March.

Last year, they were postponed from March to May due to the health crisis.

They will also be taken into account for the first time by Parcoursup.

“The students are absolutely not ready”

Several associations of specialty teachers felt that their organization in March did not allow them to be prepared in good conditions.

"We do not approach these tests in a serene way at all. The feedback we have is that the students are absolutely not ready", explained to AFP Solène Pichardie, co-president of the Association. professors of economics and social sciences (Apses).

"It's really a busy time," she adds.

"In our high schools, we have alerts on the state in which the students find themselves, who must both revise and reflect on their orientation".