Hi there ! My name’s Hadrien, and I’m a French student at the Faidherbe prépa. But, what is a prépa you may ask ? It’s like a extension of high school, but way more focused on one field (such as biology, literature, or maths/physics/chemistry). It’s supposed to last two years long, and there’s some specifics about that as well, but, at the end of those two years, you pass an exam where you ought to be selected for schools (which are called les Grandes Écoles ie Great Schools) all across France. In my case, those schools are kind of engineering schools. The prépa course is possibly the hardest and the most rewarding one of the French Education System, as it often happens that some abandon it and go to uni less than a year in. It is, as most courses in France, entirely free.
I’m in 2nd year, in what is called a Classe Étoile (=Star Class), meaning I was one of the best of my class last year: we tend to aim for higher ranking schools. To be clear, I’m in MP*: the * tends for, well, Star, and the MP is for Maths-Physics, for those are our two main fields of study.
I’ll be posting my work here, since the country is currently in lockdown, and I’ve got nothing else to do. Check out how the prépa system works here !