La prépa, or classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles, is a unique two-year program in the French education system designed to prepare students for entrance exams to elite universities and engineering schools. There are three main types of preparatory courses focused on business, literature, and science. The intense workload often leads students to repeat years if they do not achieve their desired results. However, la prépa provides access to prestigious institutions, resulting in promising career opportunities and forming lifelong friendships despite its challenges.
La prépa is a minimum two-year school programme whose goal is to prepare students for the entrance exams to renowned French universities and engineering schools.
Students who fail to get the school they wanted often repeat for a third year, sometimes even a fourth, highlighting the competitiveness of la prépa.
La prépa opens the door to some of the most prestigious French undergraduate and graduate schools, such as HEC business school or Ecole Polytechnique.
French people usually reminisce about la prépa in roughly the same way as veterans share war stories, reflecting its challenging nature.
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