The main single error crept into one of the subjects of the French Baccalaureate test organized this Thursday morning. Students and examiners were destabilized.
A mistake has crept into one of the subjects of the expected written test of the French Baccalaureate, reports Le Parisien. During the exam, which began at 8 a.m. on Thursday, June 15, candidates had a choice of several topics: a commentary on an excerpt from a text by Diderot, Salon de 1767, or three dissertation topics.
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For students who opted for text commentary, however, things got a bit complicated. In fact, in line 16 the word “connection” had been written instead of “place”: “From this connection to the dwellers of the cities, to the dwellings of turmoil, to the abode of the interest of the passions, vices, crimes, prejudices, errors, it is a long way.”
A mistake that caused panic among the examiners. “While I was finishing my draft, people came into the exam room and told us there were mistakes in the text,” a high school student tells our colleagues.
The error also unsettled the students. In fact, the word “link” was also at the beginning of the second paragraph, leading several of them to organize their comments around that word. “It changed the whole twist of the sentence. Also, this surgery was a huge distraction for me and turned my plan into a disaster,” says the young girl at Parisian.
“I wrote a whole paragraph about the link so after 1:30 am I was told it wasn’t a link, it was a place…” a student tweeted.
The French Baccalaureate was a bit complicated but the worst thing is that I wrote a whole paragraph about the “link” so after 1:30 I was told that it wasn’t a link but a place.
– Moha? (@MohaEnTN_) June 15, 2023