Thursday, June 18, 2009

Very different from the GMAT essay

Are You Smarter than a French Teenager?

Thursday, 18th June 2009

The Bac began today with, as is traditional, the philosophy paper. Via Charles Bremner and Art Goldhammer, here are some of the questions our French friends had to answer:

For the Literature Stream:

1) Does objectivity in history suppose impartiality in the historian? 2) Does language betray thought ?

For the Science Stream:

1) Is it absurd to desire the impossible? 2) Are there questions which no science can answer?

Well, is it absurd to desire the impossible? Have at it, Spectator readers...

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