{"id":1354,"date":"2013-06-04T23:35:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T21:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2013-07-20T15:59:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T13:59:51","slug":"history-and-geography-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/history-and-geography-exam","title":{"rendered":"History and geography exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a student with<strong> no French diploma<\/strong> whatsoever, I have to sit for a <strong>history and geography exam<\/strong> in order to get my <strong>CAP (Certificat d&#8217;aptitude professionnel) diploma<\/strong> for pastry, which is usually awarded to 16-year-old students of professional high schools.<br \/>\nFor me it is <strong>a bit ridiculous<\/strong>, especially considering I have got my University degree a few years ago, but to make it more ridiculous this exam is in addition to <a title=\"Physical Education: done\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/physical-education-done.htm\">Physical Education<\/a> (done), French, and Maths tests (next week). I must be really motivated, uh!<\/p>\n<p>While for Physical Education you don&#8217;t really have to study, in History and Geography I was <strong>obliged to write two 4-page essays<\/strong>, choosing from a limited set of subjects.<\/p>\n<p>The subjects I chose were:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>Geography<\/strong> &#8211; The <strong>agro-business in the United States<\/strong>: is it sustainable on the long term?<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>History<\/strong> &#8211; Evolution of the right of vote: how did the <strong>right of vote evolve for women in France<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dossier-geographie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1581\" alt=\"dossier-geographie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dossier-geographie.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dossier-geographie.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dossier-geographie-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I must admit I thought this writing thing was a pain, and that&#8217;s why I spent a couple of days looking for ready-made essays to download from the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>It was <strong>very hard to find something FOR FREE<\/strong>, so I decided to <strong>write my own from scratch<\/strong> (as I was supposed to!) and it came out quite well (definitely better than I would have written it when I was 16!), now I feel like a real expert on the <strong>right of vote for women in France!<\/strong> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Last week I handed in my essays and had to sit for an <strong>oral exam of 15 minutes<\/strong>: I felt like <strong>a reaaaally good student!<\/strong> And my French was just fine! I answered all the questions and I showed I really knew the timeline of the evolution! <strong>Thanks Wikipedia!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a student with no French diploma whatsoever, I have to sit for a history and geography exam in order to get my CAP (Certificat d&#8217;aptitude professionnel) diploma for pastry, which is usually awarded to 16-year-old students of professional high schools. For me it is a bit ridiculous, especially considering I have got my University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,32],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cap","tag-exam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}