High school students pass their specialty events from June 17 to 19, 2025. And the note has a lot for the baccalaureate.
Generally and technological, high school students must opt, from the second class, for three specialty. They make their choice according to their tastes and motivations, and also in office of their orientation project in higher education. These specialties have been set up to allow students to discover new horizons and help them better orient themselves after the baccalaureate. The three specialties are thus studied in the first class, but only two specialties (as desired) are kept in terminal, for the Bac tests.
What are the dates of specialty tests?
In 2025, the written tests of specialty will be held Tuesday 17, Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 June 2025. The same month, candidates also spend their big oral of the bac.
Each candidate chose two specialty lessons that are subject to one test per day. Students are therefore summoned over two days (one day per test) to work on a written subject. “Subjects comply with the limiting program of each discipline and the expenses of the final year,” explains the ministry.
What is the coefficient of specialty tests?
The two baccalaureate specialty tests each have a coefficient of 16. “This therefore represents 32 % of the final note”, specifies the government’s website.
What are the 12 specialties of the general bac?
- Arts: Circus arts, plastic arts, cinema-audiovisual, dance, history of arts, music, theater
- History-geography, geopolitics, political science: As a first, students study democracy, the international power of states, political borders, information issues and religious facts in their relations with power.
- Humanity, literature, philosophy: Literature and languages and cultures of antiquity, languages, literatures and foreign and regional cultures. High school students are studying: the powers of speech “from antiquity to classical age,” representations of the world “in the Renaissance, in the classical age and the period of lights.
- Languages, literatures and foreign cultures: High school students, in first breakage, can follow a specialty teaching “Languages Literature and foreign and regional cultures (LLCER)” in English, English contemporary world, German, Spanish, Italian and in the Basque regional, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Occitan-Langue of OC, Tahitian or Creole.
- Literature, languages and cultures of antiquity : This specialty teaching is common to the Latin and Greek program, with an assertive literary character.
- Mathematics : Algebra and geometry, analysis, probabilities, algorithmic and programming. This program makes it possible to deepen the concepts addressed in 2nd, introduces new concepts and develops the taste for mathematics.
- Digital and computer science : This specialty teaching makes it possible to acquire the concepts and methods that found IT, in its scientific and technical dimensions.
- Life and earth sciences: Students study scientific culture from the fundamental concepts of biology and geology. The program addresses three major themes: the earth, the life and the evolution of the living; Contemporary challenges on the planet, in particular those of the environment, sustainable development, resource management and risks; the human body and health.
- Engineering sciences: High school students look at the study of artificial objects and systems in order to acquire the skills necessary to innovate and materialize solutions to certain types of problems.
- Economics and social sciences: This teaching is the continuity of the second program. Students therefore continue to learn the economic, social and political issues of contemporary societies.
- Physics-chemistry: 4 themes are discussed, including the “Constitution and transformations of matter”, “Movement and interactions”, “Energy: Conversions and Transfers”, “Waves and signals”.
- Physical education, practices and sports cultivation: Students do not only sport since other disciplinary fields are integrated (sciences, humanities, etc.) with in particular a theoretical aspect allowing to learn also in the health and well-being professions.
- In agricultural high schools only, teaching “Ecology biology” is also offered.
What are the specialties for the technological bac?
ST2S
- Human chemistry, chemistry, and pathophysiology
- Health and social sciences and techniques
STL
- Physics-chemistry and mathematics
- Biochemistry-Biology- Biotechnology
- Physical and chemical sciences in the laboratory
STD2A
- Design analysis and methods
- Design and creation in design and crafts
STI2D
- Engineering, innovation and sustainable development (2i2D)
- Physics-chemistry and mathematics
STMG
- Management, management and digital sciences
- Law and economics
STHR
- Culinary sciences and technologies (STC) and services (STS)
- Scientific teaching Environmental Food (ESAE)
- Economy – Hotel management
For the S2TMD sectorthe two specialties are: culture and sciences, as well as practical.
Students make their choice Depending on their appetite for the specialties offered, But also according to their degree of motivation. Likewise, the knowledge that the student wishes to deepen and his orientation project in higher education will refer him to his decision. Of course, inquire upstream and discuss it with your main teacher will allow him to make more enlightened choices. Finally, know that the choice of a specialty in no way prevents access to training: specialties are used to experiment before anything or not. To help second students make their choice, onisep has developed an application called Horizons21.fr.
