Philosophy Teacher Reveals Potential Exam Topics for Monday’s Test!

The philosophy written exam of the baccalaureate is scheduled for Monday, June 15, 2026. Students are currently deep in preparation for this crucial test, which carries a significant weight with a coefficient of 8. Candidates will have to choose between two essay prompts with a question, and a third prompt that involves analyzing and explaining a text. But what topics will be covered? Since the topics are kept confidential until the start of the exam, it’s impossible to know for sure what will be included.

We spoke with a philosophy teacher to see if there were any topics more likely than others to be included in the exam. Caroline Giraud, known as @caro.philomaths on TikTok, shared that before the last baccalaureate reform, topics were organized into five broad themes, and questions were typically drawn from three of them. “With the baccalaureate reform, they removed the broad themes, but we still notice that the questions that come up generally include a scientific topic, a political topic, and a cultural topic. There would also be an existential theme, with concepts like consciousness and happiness. Since 2020, we have seen one question from each of these categories,” she explained.

Each theme encompasses several concepts. For instance, within the political theme, concepts of State, justice, and freedom are included. “It seems like justice has been a recurring topic for a while. But it’s hard to have a political topic without a bit of justice in it. So, inevitably, it appears. State-justice really is the main block” of this theme, the philosophy teacher noted. She added that the concept of freedom is “quite cross-disciplinary“: “You might see a topic on freedom that is actually a scientific or political topic.” Regarding scientific topics, “even if truth isn’t explicitly mentioned in the topic, it’s really not feasible to discuss science without also discussing truth.” As for cross-disciplinary topics, Caroline Giraud pointed out that “truth and duty are two concepts that appear in many topics, even if not explicitly stated.”

Of course, it’s risky to make predictions about the topics that will appear and to use these guesses to lighten one’s study load. Caroline Giraud advises students to review the entire program: “I think it’s really a bad idea to study by concept, since no question is really about just one concept.” She mentioned an example from the philosophy exam that occurred on June 8, 2026, for students taking the baccalaureate in Asia, which was “Are we prisoners of language?”. “‘Language’ is the only concept explicitly mentioned. But because it includes ‘prisoners,’ freedom will inevitably be part of it. The phrase ‘prisoners of language’ also leans a bit towards the unconscious. Even though it’s not written, all these concepts are implied in the topic. And often, the best essays are those that manage to connect all the concepts present in the prompt,” either implicitly or explicitly.