Exam Dates
- Epreuve blanche : entre le 14 et le 18 février 2022 (écrit), entre le 21 février et le 4 mars 2022 (oral)
- Epreuves finales : selon calendrier national
The Written Exam
Written exam format is as follows:
- Coefficient of the written exam: 10
- Duration of written examination: 4 hrs (students may organize their time as they wish during the 4 hours)
- The student will first choose between two sets of exam papers: SUJET A with a History essay (part 1) and a Geography exercise (part 2), OR SUJET B with a Geography essay (part 1) and a History document-based question (part 2). Part 1 and Part 2 for each scenario is described below:
- Part 1: ONE Essay ("Composition")
- Candidates must choose one of two essays.
- Refer to the writing guide here, and below.
- Part 2: ONE Exercise ("Exercice")
- Critical study of one or two documents of History (if Geography was on Part 1) or of Geography (if History was on Part 1), with guiding questions
- For Geography ONLY, students may be asked to write an essay answer for a document-based question (DBQ), OR to complete a croquis.
- The DBQ consists of 2 documents (with a guiding question)
- For the critical study of 2 documents, the answer provided must be a fully articulated commentary of the document(s) with introduction, development and conclusion): it should neither be an essay nor a narrow answer to the guiding questions.
- to create a fully annotated map (croquis) answering a given geographical question (a blank map will be provided to the candidate)
- The annotated map (croquis) exercise consists of 2 parts
- PART A: Croquis
- PART B: DBQ
- The annotated map (croquis) exercise consists of 2 parts
- The DBQ consists of 2 documents (with a guiding question)
- If part 1 is on History, part 2 will be on Geography (and vice versa)
- Exam questions must be broad topic-based questions. For topics where teachers are free to select a case-study of their choice within the framework of the syllabus (e.g History topic 1, or Geography topic 2), exam questions must be broad enough so as to allow students to answer the question regardless of the specific case-study they have reviewed
- The grade is a global one for the entire written exam (out of 20 points).
The Oral Exam
The oral examination format is as follows:
- Coefficients: 5
- Duration: 20 minutes
- Preparation: 20 minutes
- Presentation: 7 minutes
- Interview: 13 minutes
- Language of oral examination: English only
- Assignment: student randomly picks ONE question from a list of 50, evenly distributed questions of history and geography