Publish at May 29 2012 Updated March 20 2024
The bac, which marks the end of secondary education in France and several French-speaking African countries, is a huge market, with publishers, teachers seeking popularity, tutoring organizations, the media and places of study such as libraries, all flocking to it. Some will reap a substantial share of their annual profits during the month of revision. Others will make no material profit from their mobilization around the Bac, but will feel that they have participated in the upkeep of a national monument, and responded to a "strong public demand".
Those who have something to sell are primarily aimed at parents, i.e. those who feel it might be worth sacrificing a few euros (or hundreds of euros, if you think of intensive revision sessions, for example) to relieve their stress. Those who offer their advice free of charge are also aimed at parents, who are delighted to put themselves in their children's shoes; just a little more, and they'd follow the methodological advice for themselves, for their work.
They are also aimed at anxious pupils and those who wake up a little late or are still hesitating between revising and following the sporting events that taunt them on TV (Roland Garros tennis tournament, Euro 2012 soccer tournament).
Whatever the case may be, all the players involved in Bac coaching offer more or less the same advice. Is this advice followed? That's what we're going to find out by comparing the said advice with twitts written by high school students preparing for the Bac, and who have flagged their subject with the hashtag #bac. The twitts have been anonymized, but the spelling has been respected.
It's 2 a.m. I wake up at 6 a.m. and start my great day with a German oral for the #bac that I haven't revised #bonnenuit dead
Starting tomorrow, I have no life for 28 days.
I feel sick to my stomach. Why do I always leave things to the last minute?
J'passe Mon oral D'anglais Jeudi 3 sujet à apprendre J'en connai Aucun...
I know @Orel_san's songs better than my #Bac lessons
I'm giving up going out, from now on I'll just be revising and working #bac #impossible #stress
A new week begins, the #Bac is fast approaching! In three weeks we'll be there!
It feels like freestyle for the #bac. No revision with 20 days to go. #adrenaline ? Nah, just #flemme
People who've finished their #Bac revisions while I haven't started mine, don't talk to me seriously.
Well, I'm going to revise. I'll have to put more than my name and the date on the paper.
Tomorrow I'm boycotting everything, even my phone, and I'm learning all my history! And on Wednesday morning, geography in a flash!
There's an 87-year-old guy taking the Bac ES. I hope we both pass.
Ahhhh I'm stressing!!!
My God don't stress me out more than I already am!!! #iamgonnatodietoo
I'M SCARED OF #BAC WALAYE!!!
#AuSecour D-20 avant le #Bac
Here we go, a somewhat different day, an oral coeff 5 will be played #bac #bad
I'm so stressed right now that I'm almost eating my fingers.
Well, tomorrow at 11:30am I've got a little oral, coefficient 5 for the #Bac, which lasts 45min'. In other words: IT'S SHIT. #JeVaisPasAssumerMerde
Warning: I'm studying nuclear energy right now (as if it's going to help me improve my life).
According to a study, making love during #exams is beneficial...at least he'll have served a purpose this 'tin de #bac
I don't get it, I feel like I'm working all day but in the end I'm doing nothing. It's almost infuriating
Revision for the #Bac in front of #RolandGarros for 15 days: Sport + Study = #CoachingGagnant #Easy
To get the day off to a good start, the #Tennisclub then revisions
... and good weather
Finishing at midday and having to revise for the bac when the weather's fine, or how to get the willies (1)
No lessons this afternoon. Off? No work... #hardlife
To find out if you'll pass your exams, take a look at your tan lines #SoleilPerturbateur
i want to die! Or get my baccalaureate.
I'm not doing anything with my life... hard-working spirit, where are you? Did you ever exist?
Come on #Lord make us all #Bac please please please please... Et quand On sera dvant la cOpie qu'On soir inspiré^^
My parents talk so much about the #Bac, it's like they're the ones taking it!
This book's not bad for revising history and geography, because I don't have the lessons.
But why do authors write to express their feelings? Can't they make songs or movies?
#Revise #Revise #Revise #Revise #Revise #Revise #Revise #Revise #Revise #Revise FRENCH AGAIN AND AGAIN!
Well, it's decided, I'm not betting on philosophy.
Today I'm revising svt
PSE finish a really useless subject
Of course, some conscientious, organized and motivated students also tweet. But frankly, much less than those who have a more... hazardous vision of their exam success.
Happy revision, everyone!
1 - avoir le seum: to have the heebie-jeebies, to have the nerves, to be pissed off
photo : Amy McTigue via photo pin cc
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