Where is the Lycee Francais de New York and how many students does it have?

The Lycee Francais de New York is at 505 East 75th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It has around 1,225 students, which makes it the largest French school in the New York area, with fifteen accredited year groups from pre-school to Terminale.

Do you also cover the AP modules offered at LFNY?

Yes. The Lycee Francais de New York offers AP modules alongside the Baccalaureate programme, notably AP Calculus AB and BC in mathematics, used for applications to American universities. I cover those modules at the same time as the Mathematics speciality, because the content overlaps heavily. What differs is the format of the examination and the French requirement for a written proof.

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Q: Do you tutor students at the Lycee Francais de New York?

Yes, online, from Sixieme to Terminale. The Lycee Francais de New York is accredited by the French Ministry of Education across its entire programme, from pre-school to Terminale, which means its students follow the official French syllabus, exactly the one I have taught for more than 10 years at Lycee Marie de France and College Stanislas in Montreal. The work transfers with no adaptation at all.

Q: Is there a time difference with Montreal?

None. Manhattan and Montreal are in the same Eastern time zone, and both countries change their clocks on the same days. A session set at 5 pm after school stays at 5 pm all year, with no seasonal drift.

Q: Can sessions be held in English?

Yes. A share of Lycee Francais de New York families are English-speaking, and the student sometimes reasons faster in English while still having to write in French on the day. I explain in whichever language unblocks the idea, then have the student restate it in the vocabulary Baccalaureate markers expect.

Online tutoring for students at the Lycee Francais de New York, from Sixieme to Terminale. Mathematics, physics-chemistry, NSI and SVT, the Baccalaureate specialities, the Maths Expertes and Maths Complementaires options, and the AP modules. I am based in Montreal, in the same time zone as Manhattan, and your children sit the same Baccalaureate as my students: the North America paper.

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The Lycee Francais de New York in a few facts

The Lycee Francais de New York is at 505 East 75th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It has around 1,225 students and is accredited by the French Ministry of Education across its entire programme, fifteen year groups from pre-school through to Terminale. It is the largest French school in the New York area, and one of the most significant in the worldwide French network.

Concretely, that means a Terminale student at LFNY follows the official French syllabus, chooses their specialities under the same rules as a student in Bordeaux or Montreal, and sits the same Baccalaureate papers as every candidate in the North America examination centre. That is exactly the ground I have worked for more than 10 years with families at Lycee Marie de France and College Stanislas.

What is distinctive about LFNY is the second track laid on top of the first: AP modules, including AP Calculus AB and BC in mathematics, aimed at applications to American universities. A student in Premiere or Terminale is therefore running two sets of demands at once, in two languages and two examination formats.

Baccalaureate and AP: handle them together, not separately

This is the most expensive mistake I see with LFNY students. They treat the Mathematics speciality and AP Calculus as two distinct subjects, with two sets of notes, two methods and two revision plans. The result is double the workload for content that overlaps by about eighty percent.

Limits, differentiation, antiderivatives, integration and sequences are on both syllabuses. What differs is three precise things, and those are the only ones that deserve separate training.

The write-up

A Baccalaureate marker expects a justified proof, with the hypotheses stated, the theorem named and the conclusion written out. A right answer with no justification is worth close to nothing. The AP marks the result plus a trace of the working. The student has to be able to switch between the two regimes, deliberately.

The vocabulary

A student perfectly comfortable with limits can lose time because they do not immediately connect theoreme des valeurs intermediaires with "intermediate value theorem", or primitive with "antiderivative". That bridge takes a few sessions to build and pays back heavily.

The calendar

AP examinations are in May, and the North America speciality papers are among the earliest in the French network. The two deadlines therefore land at practically the same moment, which means finishing the syllabus considerably earlier than a student in France does.

I went through the French Baccalaureate with the Mathematics speciality, then a B.Sc. at McGill University and an M.Sc. at Concordia University. Both mathematical cultures, the French and the North American, I met one after the other as a student before teaching either.

Where it goes wrong, year by year

The French syllabus concentrates its difficulties in very predictable places. Here are the ones that come back most often with students at the lycee, with the full detail on each year page.

Seconde (Grade 10)

The year the French syllabus hardens all at once

Functions become abstract, vectors arrive, and proof stops being optional. It is also the year the specialities are chosen: a decision taken on a mid-year mark rather than on a clear-eyed reading of the real level is expensive two years later.

Premiere, Mathematics speciality

Sequences, the quadratic and differentiation, all at once

Three heavy chapters chained together in the first term, while the student is also discovering the load of the AP modules. This is where the gap opens between those who automated algebraic calculation in Seconde and everyone else.

Terminale, Mathematics speciality

Limits, continuity, antiderivatives, the exponential and conditional probability

The densest syllabus of lycee, to be finished early since the North America papers are among the first in the French network. The required proofs and reasoning by induction are the two places scripts lose the most marks.

Terminale, Physics-Chemistry speciality

The written paper and the practical examination

Newtonian mechanics, waves, thermodynamics, kinetics and organic chemistry. The practical exam has to be prepared separately, on gestures and a method the written paper never trains.

Maths Expertes

Complex numbers, number theory and matrices

The option that carries weight in a scientific file, for French classes preparatoires and for North American engineering programs alike. It demands a fluency in calculation that the core syllabus does not build.

NSI

Python, data structures and the project

Recursion, lists, dictionaries, trees, databases and object oriented programming, plus the practical examination. A speciality where many students come unstuck in Premiere for want of solid algorithmic foundations.

Seconde Premiere Terminale Troisieme, Brevet Maths speciality Physics-Chemistry Maths Expertes NSI

College, from Sixieme to Troisieme

Requests usually start at lycee, when college is the moment catching up costs least. A Quatrieme student who has not automated algebra and fractions will carry that gap to Terminale, where it turns into slowness on problems that are not even about algebra.

In Troisieme, the year ends with the Brevet, the first national examination of the path. The theorem of Thales, trigonometry, arithmetic, probability, statistics and algorithmics with Scratch or Python: the syllabus is stable and prepares very well at a distance.

Sixieme Cinquieme Quatrieme Brevet

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Not one minute of time difference

Manhattan and Montreal are in the Eastern time zone, and both countries change their clocks on the same days. A Tuesday session at 5 pm stays at 5 pm in January as in June. A tutor in France has to accept slots at 11 pm to reach your child after school.

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The right past papers

LFNY belongs to the North America examination centre, like the French lycees in Canada. Those are the papers I have had students working on for 10 years, with their construction habits and their recurring exercises.

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Someone who knows what comes next

Many LFNY students apply to North American universities. As a graduate of McGill and Concordia, I know what a file with Maths Expertes, an AP Calculus BC and a Baccalaureate distinction is worth, and how to make them work together.

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Mathematics, physics-chemistry, SVT and NSI. A week that is heavy in physics and quiet in maths is handled in the same session, without multiplying tutors or invoices.

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Free corrected exercises, in French

Finding practice material in French, on syllabus and genuinely corrected, is hard from New York. The site offers freely available exercise sets covering Seconde, the Mathematics speciality in Premiere and Terminale, the Maths Expertes and Maths Complementaires options and the Physics-Chemistry speciality, plus a complete four hour mock Baccalaureate. The revision sheets summarise each chapter with the method and the classic traps.

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Frequently asked questions

Do you tutor students at the Lycee Francais de New York?

Yes, online, from Sixieme to Terminale. The school is accredited across its entire programme, so its students follow the official French syllabus, exactly the one I have taught for more than 10 years at Lycee Marie de France and College Stanislas in Montreal. The work transfers with no adaptation at all.

Where is the school and how many students does it have?

At 505 East 75th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, with around 1,225 students. It is the largest French school in the New York area, with fifteen accredited year groups from pre-school to Terminale.

Do you also cover the AP modules?

Yes, notably AP Calculus AB and BC, alongside the Mathematics speciality, because the content overlaps heavily. What differs is the examination format and the French requirement for a written proof.

Which scientific specialities do you cover?

Mathematics, Physics-Chemistry, NSI and SVT, in Premiere as in Terminale, plus the Maths Expertes and Maths Complementaires options. I also work on the Grand oral when the chosen topic is scientific.

Is there a time difference with Montreal?

None. Manhattan and Montreal are in the same Eastern zone, and both countries change their clocks on the same days. A session at 5 pm stays at 5 pm all year.

Can sessions be held in English?

Yes. Many LFNY families are English-speaking, and the student sometimes reasons faster in English while still having to write in French on the day. I explain in whichever language unblocks the idea, then have them restate it in the vocabulary markers expect.