Introduction
Final
Report
Conference
Issues
Conference
Rules
Report 1
Participating
countries
EURYDICE
Glossary
Admission
to HE
Austria
Issues
Q&A
Bulgaria
Description
Issues
Q&A
Czech Republic
Description
Issues
Q&A
Estonia
Issues
Q&A
France
Issues
Q&A
Germany
Issues
Q&A
Hungary
Description
Issues
Latvia
Issues
Lithuania
Issues
Q&A
Netherlands
Issues
Q&A
Poland
Description
Issues
Q&A
Portugal
Description
Issues
Q&A
Slovakia
Description
Issues
Q&A
Slovenia
Description
Issues
Spain
Description
Issues
Sweden
Description
Issues
United Kingdom
Description
Issues
The French cultural tradition focuses on "culture générale" (general knowledge. The number of subjects in the French baccalauréat is comparatively high, with a minimum of 9 subjects in the written examinations. Each subject requires a general knowledge of the topic. Moreover; the level of specialization about each topic is generally limited, with the exception of some specialties of the technological and vocational baccalauréats.
Every type of baccalauréat (general, technological, vocational) and every specialty (S, ES, L ...) operates indistinctly as entrance examination to higher education in all French universities.
Moreover, the absence of numerus clausus is the rule so far as the universities are concerned. Nevertheless, in the first two years after the baccalauréat, about 20% of the bacheliers enter, with a numerus clausus, the "classes préparatoires" which lead to the renown and highly selective "grandes écoles".
