Bac 2021: what is Grand oral?

This test also allows the candidate to use his or her knowledge related to his or her specialties to create an argument and show how it is essential for his or her further studies project, and possibly his or her professional project.

This event is one of the five final events of the baccalaureate (60% of the final score) and counts with a coefficient 10 in the general mode or 14 in the technological mode.

Evaluation of the test

The test is scored on 20 points. The board values the strength of the candidate's knowledge, his ability to argue and connect knowledge, his critical thinking, the precision of his expression, the clarity of his statement, his commitment to his word, his strength of conviction.

Conduct of the test

The student prepared 2 questions in advance with his teachers and possibly with other students. These questions relate to his two specialties. At the beginning of the test, he presents these 2 questions to the jury, which chooses one. A preparation of 20 minutes precedes the actual test. It lasts 20 minutes and takes place in 3 moments:

• for 5 minutes, the candidate presents the question chosen by the board and answers it. The Board assessed his arguments and presentation skills. The presentation is unrecorded and standing, except in special cases.
• then, for 10 minutes, the board interacts with the candidate and assesses the strength of his knowledge and his argumentative skills. This exchange time allows the student to showcase his knowledge, related to the program of specialties followed in the first and final classes.
• the final 5 minutes of discussion with the jury are about the candidate's orientation project. The candidate shows that the question dealt with was part of the maturation of his project to continue his studies, and even for his professional project.

Composition of the jury

The jury is made up of 2 teachers from different subjects:

• a professor of one of the candidate's specialties (or a professor of the specialty of his or her series for the technological route);
• a professor of the other specialty or of one of the common teachings, or a professor-documentalist.