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Often, grandes écoles recruit students not after the end of their high school, but after two or more years of initial higher education. For the most part, this education takes place in special preparatory classes, known as prépas, located in a few high schools that dispense undergraduate college education at an accelerated pace. There are four main categories of prépas:
There is some specific jargon in those classes. For instance, the students in mathématiques spéciales are called taupins (which could be roughly translated as the "moles") because they often wear glasses and never go out. Hence, the year of mathématique spéciale is called the taupe, which could be translated in the context as the "mole hole". One integrates a school when one succeeds in passing the competitive exam to that school. If you integrate a school after two years of prépa, you are 3/2; if you repeat a year, you are 5/2. Indeed, the most presigious engineering school in France is the École Polytechnique, often dubbed X, as the unknown variable in maths. The integralThis article deals with the concept of an integral in mathematical calculus. For other meanings of "integral" see integration. In calculus, the integral of a function is a generalization of area, mass, volume, sum, and total. Unlike the process of differe of X between 1 and 2 (the numbers representing years of study) is 3/2, and the integral between 2 and 3 is 5/2. Being 7/2 is not allowed.
Grandes écoles can be classified into several broad categories:
They train researchers, professorsA professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. Overview Professors give lectures and seminars in their field of study, such as science or literature. They also do advanced research in their fields and are supposed to d and may also be a starting point for high administrative careers. There are four of them:
Their competitive entrance exams are about the most selective. They recruit mostly from taupes, biology prépas and khâgnes.
The normaliens, as the students of the several ENS are known, keep a level of excellence in the various disciplines in which they are trained. Normaliens from France and other European Union countries are considered civil servants in training, and as such paid a monthly salary, in exchange for an agreement to serve France for 10 years, including those of studies.