Word: bachot
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...rise to the highest circles of power. The problem is that the seats at these schools tend to go to the children of the élite, ensuring that power stays in the upper class - even in the same families - from generation to generation. (Read "Education Abroad: Breaking the Bachot...
Boning for Bachots. Whether in London or São Paulo, a lycée education is a demanding, no-nonsense process. Greek, Latin and logic, mathematics and a firm grounding in scientific studies are standard elements in the curriculum. French literature is its very backbone. And wherever the lycée, its students will be working from the same textbooks, will bone up for the same exams at the same time of the year. The questions for the bachot, the dreaded baccalaureate examination that determines who shall-and who shall not-be eligible for university entrance, are formulated...
...Last month's scandal of the leaked bachot questions (TiME, July 10) was solved last week when an Education Ministry clerk confessed to stealing them for her ami, who passed them on to friends...
Bounding triumphantly from the grueling examinations that won him his lyceée's coveted bachot, Charles de Gaulle, 15, man general's oldest and favorite grandchild, reported that as his examination code name he had used "L'eétat, c'est moi." Despite dark suspicions that "certain professors are intimidated by my name," he nevertheless flunked Latin, pulled through on the strength of his French and history, which surprised few of his fellow students, among whom he is already famous for his imitations of Grandpa. "I am a Gaullist," he explains, grandly...
Busy Signal. Police got proof of the fraud only on exam day, but bureaucracy made it impossible to switch to a standby bachot. The decision to change, explained an official of the Marseille test center, could be made only by the exam results to be compared with a student's regular work. Those scoring suspiciously well will get an oral grilling. President Charles de Gaulle was so peeved by the inglorious mess that at a Cabinet meeting he asked his Education Minister: "Alors, Fouchet, and about this bac?" Replied Fouchet, with grumpy high-score logic: "The whole thing would...