The written French baccalaureate exams are scheduled for June this year. What about the orals? Dates, procedures, texts to study… Here’s everything you need to know about the 2025 session.
The French baccalaureate is often a source of anxiety for high school juniors experiencing their first bac exams. Here are the dates for the written French bac exams for this new session.
2025 French Bac Written Exam Dates
The preliminary written French exams are set for Friday, June 13, 2025, in the morning for general and technological bacs, and May 12 for the vocational bac.
2025 French Oral Exam Dates
High school students will take the French oral exams from June 23 to July 4, 2025, based on their individual summons.
How Will the French Oral Exams Be Conducted This Year?
The French oral exam for the general and technological bac consists of two parts, beginning with a 30-minute preparation period. In the first part of the exam (12 minutes), the student prepares the selected text by the examiner and performs a reading aloud, followed by a linear explanation of a passage about twenty lines long. They must also answer a grammar question related to the chosen text. In the second part of the oral exam, the student presents the work they have selected from those studied in class (lasting 8 minutes). The first part of the oral exam is scored out of 12 points, and the second part out of 8 points.
What are the Program Texts for the 2025 French Bac?
Texts for Study in the General Bac 2025
- Étienne de La Boétie, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
- Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
- Françoise de Graffigny, Letters of a Peruvian Woman
- Pierre Corneille, The Liar
- Alfred de Musset, No Trifling with Love
- Nathalie Sarraute, For Yes or For No
- Rimbaud, Douai Notebook
- Ponge, The Rage of Expression
- Hélène Dorion, My Forests
- Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut
- Balzac, The Magic Skin
- Colette, Sido followed by: The Tendrils of the Vine
Texts for Study in the Technological Bac 2025
Texts are similar to those in the general bac, with specific passages outlined for study.
What is the Weighting for the French Bac?
The preliminary French exams at the end of the junior year carry a weight of 5 for the written exam and 5 for the oral exam.
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