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The ''classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles'' (CPGE) (English: Higher School Preparatory Classes), commonly called ''classes prépas'' or ''prépas'', are part of the French post-secondary education system. They consist of two very intensive years "" (extendable to three "" or exceptionally four years "") which act as a preparatory course (or cram school) with the main goal of training undergraduate students for enrollment in one of the ''grandes écoles''. The workload is one of the highest in the world 〔()〕 (between 35 and 45 contact hours a week, plus written and oral exams and homework). The students from CPGE have to take national competitive exams to be allowed to enroll in one of the ''Grandes Écoles''. These ''Grandes Écoles'' are higher education establishments (graduate schools) delivering master's degrees and/or doctorates. They include science and engineering schools, business schools, the four veterinary colleges and the four ''écoles normales supérieures'' but do not include medical institutes or architecture institutes. Their competitive entrance exams make having attended one of the ''grandes écoles'' being often regarded as a status symbol as they have traditionally produced most of France's scientists, executives and intellectuals (écoles normales supérieures, école polytechnique,Ecole Centrale de Paris, ecole des mines paris ...). Hence, there are three kinds of different ''prépas'': scientific, business and literary ''CPGE''. Each of them prepare to pass the competitive exams of those ''grandes écoles''. ==Admission== The CPGE are located within high schools for historical reasons (Napoleon created them at first as fourth to sixth year of high school) but pertain to tertiary education, which means that each student must have successfully passed their ''baccalauréat'' (or equivalent) to be admitted to CPGE. Moreover, the admission to the CPGE is usually based on performance during the last two years of high school, called ''première'' and ''terminale''. Thus, each CPGE receives hundreds of applications from around the world every April and May, and selects its new students under its own criteria (mostly excellency). A few CPGE programmes, mainly the private CPGEs (which account for 10% of CPGEs), also have an interview process or look at a student's involvement in the community. In June 2007, 534,300 students passed the "Baccalauréat", and 40,000 (7.5%)〔(Figures ) 〕 of them were admitted to CPGE. On a given class at one of the prep schools listed above, around 1500 application files will be examined for only 40 places.〔http://www.peep.asso.fr/upload/pdf/2890.Post_Bac_attractivite_academie_paris_cpge_et_autres.pdf〕 Students are selected according to their grades in High school and the first part of "Baccalauréat" (equivalent to A-levels in the United Kingdom or Advanced Placement in the United States). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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