Sujet LLCER — Terminale — Asie — Bac 2022

SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Faire Société ». Partie 1 (16 pts) Prenez connaissance du dossier proposé, composé des documents A, B et C non hiérarchisés, et traitez en anglais le sujet suivant (environ 500 mots) : Taking into account their specificities and viewpoints, say what the documents show about the impact of secondary private education on university admissions and future career options in the UK. Partie 2 (4 pts) Traduisez en français le passage suivant du document B (l. 7-12) : It comes as pressure mounts on leading universities, especially Oxford and Cambridge, which are still dominated by white, wealthy students, many of whom are privately educated, to widen access to those from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. […] Giving the traditional start-of-year speech to university staff on Monday, Cambridge’s vice- chancellor, Prof Stephen Toope, said: “Can we call ourselves a place of excellence if we are not fully inclusive of the most diverse talent?” 22-LLCERANMCJA1 Page : 2/9 Document A Britain’s private school problem: it’s time to talk What particularly defines British private education is its extreme social exclusivity. Only about 6% of the UK’s school population attend such schools, and the families accessing private education are highly concentrated among the affluent1. […] The statistics also tell a story. The proportion of prominent people in every area who have 5 been educated privately is striking, in some cases grotesque. From judges (74% privately educated) through to MPs2 (32%), the numbers tell us of a society where bought educational privilege also buys lifetime privilege and influence. […] Above all, private schools succeed when it comes to preparing their pupils for public exams – the gateways to universities. In 2018 the proportion of private-school students 10 achieving A*s and As3 at A-level was 48%, compared with a national average of 26%. […] [To] achieve the best possible exam results and the highest rate of admission to the top universities, “working the system” comes into play. Far greater resources are available for diagnosing special needs, challenging exam results and guiding university applications. Underpinning all these areas of advantage are the high revenues from fees: Britain’s 15 private schools can deploy resources whose order of magnitude for each child is approximately three times what is available at the average state school. The relevant figures for university admissions are thus almost entirely predictable. Perhaps inevitably, by far the highest-profile stats concern