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Lycee francais international de Pekin, Chaoyang

Online Tutor for Students at the French Lycee in Beijing

Online tutoring for students at the Lycee francais international Charles-de-Gaulle in Beijing, from Sixieme to Terminale. Mathematics, physics-chemistry, NSI and SVT, the Baccalaureate specialities, Brevet preparation and the Asia zone papers. I have tutored in Montreal for more than 10 years, and the session sits in the Beijing evening, which is my morning. In English or in French.

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The school

The Lycee francais international Charles-de-Gaulle in Beijing is at 3 Xinjin Lu, in the Laiguangying area of the Chaoyang district, on a 38,000 square metre campus opened in 2016. Founded in 1965, it is one of the oldest French schools in China. It has around 800 students from more than fifty countries and is run directly by the AEFE, meaning the Agency administers it itself.

All fifteen year groups, from pre-school to Terminale, are accredited by the French Ministry of Education. The school also offers international sections, in English and in Chinese, leading to the French international Baccalaureate.

One fact matters more than the rest for a parent: it is the only accredited French school in Beijing. There is no second lycee to turn to if a speciality class is oversubscribed, if a teacher changes mid-year, or if a child needs a different pace. Individual support therefore plays a role here that other cities of the network, like Shanghai or Hong Kong, spread across several sites.

What I see most often with students in Beijing

The international section eats the science time

An international section, in English or in Chinese, adds teaching hours and heavy personal work without removing a single line from the speciality syllabus. The student arbitrates, usually at the expense of mathematics, and the backlog appears in the second term. A fixed weekly hour is generally enough to keep the science syllabus current rather than repair it in a rush in spring.

A small lycee, and therefore a constrained speciality choice

With around 800 students from kindergarten to Terminale, the lycee classes are small. Some speciality combinations do not open every year, and an option like Maths Expertes can end up shared or lightened. A student aiming at a classe preparatoire or an engineering school then has to top up outside the lycee, and needs to know from Seconde what will have to be filled in.

Trilingualism costs marks on the write-up

Beijing students are often excellent at calculation and very fast, but written justification in French stays the weak point: an induction badly initialised, a theorem applied without checking its hypotheses, a missing conclusion. The Baccalaureate mark scheme pays for that written reasoning as much as for the result, and it is where the most marks come back in a few months.

Arriving mid-cycle

A family posted to Beijing in January, a student coming from an American or British system, a return after several years outside the French network: the French syllabus does not present ideas in the same order, and the gap usually concentrates on algebra, geometry with proof and the expectations for written work. A precise diagnosis avoids holding back a student who is in truth only three chapters behind.

How scarce French-curriculum support is in Beijing

The Beijing tutoring market is vast but calibrated on the gaokao and on English-language international programmes. A local private teacher, however good, teaches neither the progression of the speciality, nor the format of the paper, nor the write-up a French marker expects. It is the most common reason families end up searching online.

A weekday slot that suits both sides

Beijing is at UTC+8 all year, since China does not change its clocks. Montreal is at UTC-5 in winter and UTC-4 in summer: the gap is 13 hours from November to March and 12 hours the rest of the year. Your child's evening therefore falls in my morning, an ordinary weekday slot on both sides.

Session in Beijing Montreal, winter Montreal, summer
Weekdays, 7 pm 6 am 7 am
Weekdays, 8 pm 7 am 8 am
Weekdays, 9 pm 8 am 9 am
Saturday, 10 am Friday 9 pm Friday 10 pm

The slot is reserved for the year. It shifts by an hour twice a year, on the Canadian side only, and I warn the family in advance.

Year by year, from Sixieme to Terminale

The syllabus is identical in every accredited school of the network, in Beijing as in Paris or Montreal.

Sixieme Cinquieme Quatrieme Troisieme, Brevet Seconde Premiere Terminale, Bac Maths speciality Physics-Chemistry Maths Expertes NSI Grand oral

Corrected exercises and revision sheets, freely available

Whether you take sessions or not, the whole revision library is free and requires no sign-up. Corrected exercise sets covering the French syllabus from Sixieme to Terminale, revision sheets by chapter, a four hour mock Baccalaureate and a two hour mock Brevet. Everything reads in the browser, with no download, which matters on an irregular connection. It is written in French, the language of the examination.

Corrected exercises Revision sheets

Frequently asked questions

My child is in the international section, does that change anything?

It mainly changes the workload. An international section adds hours without removing a line from the mathematics or physics-chemistry syllabus, so the student cuts back on the sciences and the backlog shows in the second term. The weekly session keeps the science syllabus current rather than repairing it later.

Which Baccalaureate papers does a Beijing student sit?

The Asia examination centre papers, distinct from metropolitan France and North America. They run over two consecutive days, giving two papers per speciality per session. Practice is on those past papers, timed.

Are sessions in French or in English?

In both, depending on what helps. Many students here are trilingual and sometimes reason faster in English. I explain in whichever language unblocks the idea, then have them restate it in the vocabulary the marker expects, which remains French.

Going further

The French network in China

The hub page: every school, the time slots and how the follow-up works.

The Asia zone Baccalaureate

The examination centre, its past papers, the coefficients and the Terminale plan.

Lycee francais de Shanghai

The two campuses, and what differs for a student there.

The CNED in China

For families in a city with no accredited French school.

Is your child at the French lycee in Beijing?

Tell me the year, the specialities and whether an international section is in the mix. I will propose a weekly evening slot, Beijing time, and a plan built on the Asia papers.

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