High School and OIB
Choosing classes and options in the first year of high school.
With the new goverment mesures being put in place for the 2010-11 school year, all students in the first year of lycée must now chose two exploratory subjects. One of the goals of the reform is also to lighten the course load.
Following the reform, the weekly course load for typical Seconde students is as follows:
- Common-core syllabus (maths, French...) = 23.5 hrs (including 3 hours of first foreign language instruction)
- Two exploratory subjects = 2 x 1.5 hrs
- Personalized counselling = 2 hrs
- TOTAL = 28.5 hrs
For SIS students, the two exploratory subjects will automatically be:
- SES (Social Sciences and Economy). This is a more general knowledge course and is closer to the SIS culture than the other management option available to other Seconde students.
- SIS classes.
Motivated Inter students may add 3 hours of an additional language to their course load if their schedule so allows. They may choose from Italian, Japanese, Latin or Greek. Once begun the class may not be dropped during the school year. In Première, students may choose to continue studying this language, if there are no scheduling conflicts, or drop the option.
The weekly course load of an Inter student is therefore as follows:
- Common-core syllabus (maths, French...) = 20.5 hrs (the 3 hours of first foreign language are subtracted)
- SES = 1.5 hrs as for non-Inter students
- SIS classes = 6 h
- Personalized counselling = 2 h
- TOTAL = 30 hrs + 3 hours if the 3rd language option is chosen
In practice, on the lycée registration forms that you will receive you will be asked to indicate
- the language of the section (English or German)
- your child’s second foreign language
- an optional 3rd language: Italian, Japanese, Latin or Greek [1]
| Seconde is a difficult year for a number of students because the requirements at the lycée in terms of personal effort, the detail expected, etc. are much higher than in middle school. Inter students generally manage well, but the additional effort required in the move from 3ème to the lycée should not be underestimated. |
For students considering the literature section (the L bac), it can be particularly judicious to take an optional 3rd language in Seconde.
This is because for the bac, students must choose a "specialty". For L students taking the OIB the choices are:
- maths or
- the student’s second foreign language (but to take the oral exam in this subject students must do additional coursework through a distance learning program, the CNED),
- the student’s third foreign language or a classical language. To do so the student must have taken this subject in Seconde.
[1] Inter students request the option during the registration process. There is no special procedure, even for Greek or Japanese.
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