In reality, there are 12, considering that the arts form only one specialty (music, dance, circus arts, etc.) and not counting the biology-ecology specialty, which is only offered in agricultural high schools. . This is why you will find more than 12 disciplines in the list below.
Here are the 6 most popular specialties:
– mathematics (taken by 39% of general terminale students),
– economic and social sciences (35%),
– physics-chemistry (31%),
– history-geography, geopolitics and political science, known as “HGGSP” (28%),
– life and earth sciences (25%),
– foreign and regional languages, literature and cultures (19%),
Then you have the humanities, literature and philosophy specialization, which accounts for 10% of the workforce. Then all the others, which are less than 10%, always in order of popularity: digital and computer science (known as “NSI”), plastic arts, engineering sciences and physical sciences, cinema-audiovisual, physical education, practical and sports culture, theatre, art history, music, dance, circus arts, Latin-Greek, biology-ecology.