Key Benefits:
Minister of Defence,
Given the defence code, including its article L. 4132-3 ;
Vu le Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008 bearing special status of the corps of gendarmerie officers, including articles 6, 8, 12 to 16, 45 and 48;
Vu le Decree No. 2008-947 of 12 September 2008 establishing certain provisions applicable to military students in military schools of career cadets;
See?arrested on 24 November 1998, amended by the decrees of 21 June 2001 and 13 January 2005, concerning the sporting events common to the entrance examinations to the major military schools for the recruitment of officers;
See?9 November 2004 relating to the medical and physical fitness requirements of candidates for admission to the corps of officers of the gendarmerie,
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Programmes, operating conditions and the coefficients attributed to the different competition tests 1° and 2° of Article 6 of Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008 referred to above are set out in annex I to the present order.
Programmes, operating conditions and the coefficients assigned to the various competition tests 3° of Article 6 of Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008 referred to above organized for the year 2009 is set out in annex II to this Order.
Programmes, operating conditions and the coefficients assigned to the various competition tests 3° of Article 6 of Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008 referred to above organized for the year 2010 are set out in annex III to this Order.
Programmes, operating conditions and the coefficients assigned to the various competition tests 3° of Article 6 of Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008 referred to above organized from 2011 shall be set out in annex IV to this Decree.
Programmes, operating conditions and the coefficients assigned to the various competition tests 1° of Article 8 of Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008 referred to above are attached as annex V to the present order.
Programmes, operating conditions and the coefficients assigned to the various competition tests 2° of Article 8 of Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008 referred to above are set out in annex VI to this decision.
The trial schedule and the number of places available for each competition are set, annually, by order of the Minister of Defence.
The formalities to be performed by the candidates, in particular the conditions under which they establish and address their application file, as well as the list of examination centres are defined by order of the Minister of Defence.
Contests include written proof of eligibility.
Except for the competition 1° of Article 8 of Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008, which does not include sporting events, competitions include oral and sporting admissions.
Only registered candidates who are eligible for the written eligibility test are allowed to attend the admission examinations.
When a contest has one or more optional tests, the final choice of the option(s) is expressed by the candidate in his application for the contest.
At the request of any candidate who has been granted an exemption under Article 2-I of the above-mentioned decision of 9 November 2004, the president of the jury shall, according to the infirmity presented, arrange the proceedings of the tests.
The organization of each competition requires the establishment of the following organizations:
1° A jury comprising:
- an officer-general of gendarmerie, president, assisted by an officer-general or superior of gendarmerie, vice-president, and, for the competitions provided for in Appendix I to this Order, a second vice-president, personality of the academic or scientific world or senior civil officer of gendarmerie;
- corrections of written proofs;
– Examiners of oral examinations;
- civil or military psychologists;
- officers responsible for the organization and control of the organization and the control of the execution of the sporting events.
The Chair, the Vice-Chair(s) and proofreaders constitute the Eligibility Commission.
The President, the Vice-President(s), the Examiners of Oral Tests and, for examinations other than that provided for in 1° of Article 8 of Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008 referred to abovecivil or military psychologists and officers responsible for the organization and control of the execution of the sporting events are the admission commission.
Members of the jury are appointed annually by the Director General of the National Gendarmerie.
The secretariat shall be provided by an officer who has no deliberative voice or advisory voice;
2° A supervisory committee in each written examination centre, chaired by a senior officer and bringing together the officers responsible for the monitoring of the trials.
The president and members of each supervisory committee shall be appointed by the commanders of the gendarmerie region located at the headquarters of the defence zone or the commander of the overseas gendarmerie, responsible for the physical organization of the examination centres.
The list of candidates authorized to compete is decided by the Director General of the National Gendarmerie.
These candidates are summoned to undergo the examinations by the authority responsible for the organization of the examination centre, as defined in Article 11 of this Order.
Written tests, recorded from 0 to 20, are subject to a double anonymous correction.
Any rating equal to or less than 4 out of 20 to one of the eligibility tests, with the exception, where it exists, of the foreign language composition test, is eliminated.
The nature, form and programme of the written examinations are set out in the annexes to each examination.
Any candidate who does not attend any of the written examinations is present there after the time fixed for the start of the tests or does not issue a composition sheet at the end receives the zero mark for this test.
Any infringement of the regulation, fraud or attempted fraud on the occasion of any of these tests results in the award of the zero mark for the test and, where applicable, the interruption of the test for the candidate concerned.
At the end of the correction of the written examinations, the eligibility committee for each competition:
establish an anonymous list of ranking of candidates in order of merit;
― proposes to the Director General of the National Gendarmerie the total number of points over which it considers that candidates may be declared eligible.
In the light of the Commission's proposal, the Director General of the National Gendarmerie shall, in alphabetical order, determine the nominative list of eligible candidates.
Oral and sporting examinations take place, for each competition, in a single examination centre.
Candidates must present on the first day oral examinations for which they are summoned a medical certificate mentioning, on the one hand, the physical fitness provided for in the above-mentioned decision of 9 November 2004 and, on the other hand, the ability to undergo sporting tests when they exist.
Oral tests are reported from 0 to 20.
The nature, form and programme of oral examinations are set out in the annexes to each competition.
Sports competitions are reported from 0 to 20.
They take place under the control of officers, assisted by physical and sporting training monitors.
The nature, form, coefficient and scales of the sporting events are set out in the annexes to each competition.
Candidates must perform the various sporting competitions in the same order.
Candidates of the competition set out in Appendix I who conducted the same tests during the calendar year as part of the admission examinations to the major military schools can submit a performance statement. This statement is to be produced before the competition's sporting events are performed.
Any candidate who does not attend the sporting event may, by a decision of the officer responsible for the sporting events of the contest in question, be allowed to be tested with another series. If the event is scheduled at a later date, the candidate will return all the sporting events.
If required by atmospheric circumstances, the president of the jury may, on the proposal of the officers responsible for the control of the sporting events, decide to postpone one or more of the tests.
Subject to the provision of the necessary supporting documentation, the candidate who is granted an exemption under section 2-I of the above-mentioned decision of 9 November 2004 shall be exempted from sporting events. Its general average is calculated on all the tests it has undergone without taking into account the coefficient assigned to the sporting events.
Any candidate who, without valid reason, is notified to the admission commission in a timely manner, does not present himself to any of the admission tests or who presents himself after the summoning hour shall receive the zero mark for this test.
Any infringement of the regulation, fraud or attempted fraud on the occasion of any of these tests results in the award of the zero mark for the test and, where applicable, the interruption of the test for the candidate concerned.
A candidate who does not attend the admission test, for a duly recognized force majeure, may be allowed to undergo this test at a later date that must be placed before the end of the admission tests. When the incapacity is medical, this decision is made after advice from a military doctor. In any case, any test not carried out is sanctioned by the zero mark.
Any candidate having:
―takes a grade less than 8 out of 20 at the general fitness test;
―takes a grade of less than 4 out of 20 at one of the other oral examinations, except for the oral examination of the competition 1° of Article 8 of Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008 referred to above ;
∙ a rating of less than 5 out of 20 at one of the sporting events or an average of less than 7 out of 20 for all sports events, with the exception of candidates referred to in sections 20 and 22 of this Order.
After the completion of the admission examinations, the admission commission shall establish for each contest the list of classification of candidates in order of merit. Candidates who have obtained an electrifying rating at either of the admission tests are excluded from this list.
For the competition 1° of Article 8 of Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008 referred to above, candidates classified ex aequo at the end of the examinations are first chosen according to the grade obtained at the oral admission test and, if necessary, according to the classification at the end of the eligibility tests and then, in the event of equality, according to the grade obtained at the general culture test.
The Admission Commission proposes to the Director General of the National Gendarmerie the number of points above which it considers that the candidates may be declared admitted.
The Director General of the National Gendarmerie shall, by contest, decide on the list of candidates:
a list of candidates declared admitted;
- a supplementary list;
―the date from which it can no longer be appealed to candidates from the supplementary list.
These lists, established by order of merit, are published in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
The decision of 27 June 2005 on the admission examination at the National Gendarmerie School is repealed.
The Director General of the National Gendarmerie is responsible for the execution of this Order, which will be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
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CONCOURS ON OVERVIEW OF TITULAR CANDIDATS VALIDING THE END OF THE FIRST YEAR OF MASTER GRADE OR A SCOLARITY CERTIFICATE VALIDING THE PREVIOUS ANNOUNCED FOR THE ATRIBUTION OF MASTER GRADE
(1° of Article 6 of Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008 referred to above)
CONCOURS ON OVERVIEW OF THE CIVIL FUNCTIONING OF THE STATE, TERRITORAL COLLECTIVITIES, PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISM
(2° of Article 6 of Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008 referred to above)
I. - Nature, form and programs of eligibility tests
Eligibility tests include:
– a general culture test (duration: 5 hours); coefficient 5);
– a case synthesis test (duration: 4 hours); coefficient 5);
– an optional test (duration 4 hours); coefficient 6).
1.1. General culture test
This test is intended to highlight, in addition to the knowledge and personal ideas of the candidates, their general qualities of style, clarity of mind, judgment and method.
It consists of drafting, with or without the help of documentation, a duty on a general subject relating to the evolution of ideas and political, economic and social facts in France and in the world since the beginning of the 19th century.
1.2. Synthesis of case
This test aims to determine the suitability of candidates to identify the essential ideas of a file and to return them in writing in the form of a clear, precise and concise presentation.
It consists of the writing in three pages maximum of an objective synthesis, devoid of any personal appreciation, built according to a classical plan (introduction, development, conclusion). It is entirely written and only large parts can possibly be preceded by a title.
The file, with a maximum volume of twenty pages, gathers documents of various origins (press extracts, books, statistical data...) relating to ideas or news facts.
1.3. Optional test
This test shall, at the option of the candidate, bear one of the following:
- economic and human geography;
- history;
- Economics;
management;
Mathematics;
physical;
chemistry;
biology;
information and communication technologies;
criminal law;
administrative law;
constitutional law and public freedoms;
- Community and European law;
international relations;
― languages (choice: German, English, Spanish, Italian).
(a) Economic and human geography option:
This test consists of drafting, without the assistance of documentation, a duty relating to one of the issues in the following program:
Population distribution worldwide
Demography:
the natural movement of the population:
– the basic data (birth, mortality, natural balance, age structures, gender, age pyramids...)
– the factors of evolution (scientific and technical, economic and political, cultural and religious...)
migratory movements:
- internal migration;
international migration;
- demographic results (perspectives and forecasts): different types of countries (structures and changes).
People:
– the inequalities of the people and their explanations (natural and historical, economic, social and cultural);
―population and development (double inequality):
- old country and young countries;
rich and poor countries;
― opposition of centres and peripheries:
- the urban explosion;
rural areas;
the state of the world in 2020; the effects of population growth, ageing, strengthening contrasts of wealth and economic dynamism, tensions and potential conflicts.
Organization of geographical space
Cities and urban systems:
― the foundations of concentration (centralisation and polarization);
the city (its organization and operation);
urban cities and towns:
- urban functions and activities;
urban society (its structures and behaviours);
- the urban space and its differentiation (centre and periphery, the suburbs, the extension of the urbanization and its consequences);
- recent, economic, social and cultural changes; their spatial expression; the crisis of cities;
– the growth of large cities; metropolises and megapolises; quantitative and qualitative concentration, concentration of wealth and poverty. Socio-spatial segregations. Tensions and conflicts;
– the relationship between city and country, between city and region. Urban networks and urban systems;
- internal and external transport; the growing role of communications and the importance of relational life.
Regions, territories, states, major geoeconomic ensembles: the fundamental principles of the organization of space and regionalization:
the region:
– factors of emergence and consideration of regional reality (identity and limitations);
- the different types of regions (geographical regions, administrative regions, homogeneous regions, polarized regions...);
– the territories: the emergence of a new concept and the affirmation of a new reality resulting from individual and collective appropriation of space. Its inclusion in the new administrative organization of France (country and communities);
- States and the management of their territory:
– mesh, limits and control;
- trends in decentralization;
- States and their international relations:
elementary notions of geopolitics; the borders, their role and their meaning;
– recent trends in integration; the European construction and the constitution of major geo-economic ensembles (EU, NAFTA, MERCOSUR, APEC, ASEAN);
– the increased role of major international organizations (IMF, World Bank, WTO).
Globalization, globalization, interdependence
and trade in the world system
Location of key resources.
Distribution of major economic productions.
Configuring consumer markets.
Implantation of decision-making powers.
Provisions of the main flows of exchanges of raw materials, material and intangible products, capital and information.
Globalization process.
A global market.
New International Labour Division.
Transport revolution.
Influence of new communication technologies.
Influence of increased financialization of the economy.
Institutional interdependence.
Emergence of active movements opposing the growing grip of globalization.
Development policies, the environment
and land use planning
Policies and practices of economic development, land development and environmental protection. The rising requirements and the practical modalities of their integration into different types of countries, particularly within the European Union.
Economic, social and cultural development (from global to local, the scope of endogenous development).
Land-use planning and the main types of action (regionalization, city and network policy, infrastructure, equipment and services, planning of activities, etc.).
Environmental protection:
― problems posed by food production and its management; by water, distribution and treatment; by energy supply ...;
– problems of natural risks and destructive actions of man (pollutions, deforestations, desertification, exhaustion of resources...);
– problems of heritage protection.
The concept of sustainable development and its inclusion in precautionary policies.
(b) Contemporary history option:
This test consists of writing, without the help of documentation, a duty relating to the following program:
France from 1871 to today: politics, economy, civilizations, international relations, no domain being excluded.
(c) Economics option:
This test consists of drafting, without the assistance of documentation, a duty relating to one of the issues in the following program:
Micro-economy
Consumer theory.
The producer's theory.
Pure and perfect competition.
Monopoly.
Imperfect competition.
Market failures and public intervention.
Macroeconomics
Officers and accounting operations:
- national accounts;
– accounting balance and economic balance.
Macroeconomic balance with flexible prices: the classical and neoclassical approach.
The macroeconomic balance with rigid prices:
– the Keynesian approach;
– the IS-LM model.
The theory of imbalance and micro-economic foundations of macroeconomics.
The international economy
The exchange market.
Balance of Payments (BP).
International trade.
The exchange rate.
The international monetary system.
Regional integration.
Monetary union.
The single European currency.
European integration.
Balances and economic policy
Inflation.
Unemployment.
Fiscal policy and fiscal policy.
Monetary policy.
(d) Management option:
This test consists of drafting, without the assistance of documentation, a duty relating to one of the issues in the following program:
The theory of organizations
Traditional Theories, Human Relations Theory.
Theories of contingence, system theory.
New approaches: decision theory, strategic analysis, resource theory and skills, population ecology and evolutionism, neo-institutionalism.
Major functions
Business management: market approach and marketing.
Production management: content and control.
Procurement management and logistics.
Human resources management: the content of the function and contemporary issues.
Accounting and financial management.
The new forms of organization
Project management.
Process management.
Networking forms: networked enterprise, enterprise network, partnerships, alliances, cooperation.
The company and strategy
The evolution of strategic thinking.
The strategic approach.
Information and information system.
Strategic diagnosis
The diagnosis and competitive dynamics: the analysis of competitive forces.
Diagnostics and organizational dynamics:
– Technology analysis;
– analysis of the potential of the organization (string of value).
Strategic choices
Intersectoral and inter-enterprising strategies.
International strategies.
Implementation of strategic choices.
Some current issues
Quality management.
Knowledge and skills management.
Risk and uncertainty management.
Flexibility management.
Management of innovation and change.
(e) mathematical option:
This test consists of drafting, without the assistance of documentation, a duty relating to courses and/or problems in the following program:
Analysis
Vector space, standards:
– standards on a real or complex vector space (definitions, properties, associated concepts);
― as a result of functions (the vector spaces considered in this paragraph are of finite dimension on R or C and the applications are defined on a part of such vector space and value in another):
• Equivalence of standards, Cauchy suite;
– notions of topology, neighbourhood, continuity, uniform continuity, compact parts;
– real or complex pre-hilbertian spaces. Scalar product, Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, standard: orthonormal family, Schmidt method. Existence of an orthonormal base in a finite dimension space. Orthogonal projection on a finished subspace.
Functions of a real variable, differential and integral calculation (the functions studied are defined on an interval and values in a finite dimension vector space on R and C):
- derivation:
- algebraic operations on derivatives;
– Ck-class functions (natural whole k or infinite k), Ck-class functions per piece;
- integration into a segment:
― properties of the integral;
― primitives of a continuous function over an interval. Partial integration, variable change;
– inequality of finished increments for a Class C1 function on a segment (a, b). Characterization of constant functions and lipschitzian functions on an interval;
― Taylor formula: Taylor formula in order p, remains integral for a Cp + 1 class function, Taylor-Lagrange inequality. Integration of limited developments. Taylor-Young's Theorem.
Series:
• series of actual or complex numbers:
― convergent, divergent series, absolutely convergent. Cauchy convergence criterion. Convergence of an absolutely convergent series;
― positive series. Employment of comparison relationships for the study of convergence;
- alternate series. Convergence of an alternate series, increase of the rest;
- operations on series;
― sequences and series of functions (the functions referred to in this paragraph are real or complex):
- simple convergence, uniform convergence of a series of functions;
― suites and series uniformly convergent of functions on an interval;
― whole series (the coefficients of the whole series considered in this paragraph are real or complex):
― whole series of a complex variable;
― whole series of a real variable. Full-series development;
― definition of exp (z) or (cz), cos (z), sin (z) for complex z. Exponential of a sum;
― Fourier series; Dirichlet theorem on the Fourier series development of a periodic function of class C1 per piece, Parseval formula for such functions.
Differential equations:
― linear systems of order 1 to constant coefficients. Study of the X' = AX system, where A is a diagonal matrix with real or complex elements, resolution of the Cauchy problem;
― linear equations of order 2. Equation of the type x'' + a(t)x' + b(t)x = c(t), where a, b, c are continuous on an interval with real or complex values. Theorem of existence and uniqueness of a solution to the problem of Cauchy. Resolution in case a, b are constants. Method of variation of constants;
• concepts on non-linear equations:
― solutions of a differential equation x' = f (t, x) (resp x' = f(t, x, x')), where f is class C' on an open R2 (class C2 on an open R3). Theorem of existence and local uniqueness of solutions to the problem of Cauchy. Equation resolution x' = a(t)g(x), where a is continuous on an R interval and g is class C1 and not canceling on an R interval.
Functions of several real variables:
- differential calculation (the functions considered in this paragraph are defined on an Rp open with R3 values):
– C1 class applications, differential, jacobian matrix, jacobian;
– definition of Ck class functions on a value Rp open in Rn (natural whole k or infinite k);
― critical points of a class function C1 on an open from Rp; necessary condition for the existence of a local extremum. For a Class C1 digital function on an R2 open; Taylor-Young formula, study of the existence of a local extremum in a critical point;
full calculation:
– double and triple integrals. Properties. Calculation in Cartesian coordinates. Change of variables; case of passage in polar coordinates;
― integral curvature of a differential form of degree 1 continues on an open of Rp.
Algebra
Linear and multilinear algebra (in this chapter the base body is R or C):
– duality of finite dimension vector spaces. Associated bases of an E space and its E* dual.
― matrix calculation and linear equation systems;
– reduction of endomorphisms and square matrices:
― specific values of endomorphism, under clean spaces, clean vectors;
– reduction of a finite dimension endomorphism. Characteristic polynomial, order of multiplicity of a clean value. Diagonal endomorphism;
– clean values of a square matrix, clean vectors. Diagonalization of square matrices.
Euclidian vector spaces (the vector spaces considered in this chapter are of finite dimension on R):
– geometry of Euclidian spaces:
― symmetrical endomorphism; associated matrix in an orthonormal base;
― orthogonal automorphisms, orthogonal group, orthogonal special group (rotations), orthogonal matrices, orthogonal basic change;
– reduction of symmetrical endomorphisms. Reduction of symmetrical endomorphism in an orthonormal base. Diagonalization of a symmetrical matrix by means of an orthogonal matrix. Definition of a quadratic form. Associated symmetrical endomorphism. Definition of positive defined quadratic forms.
(f) Physical option:
This test consists of drafting, without the assistance of documentation, a duty relating to courses and/or problems in the following program:
Mechanics
General theorems of the mechanics of the material and solid point: Newton laws. Kinetic energy and potential energy.
Theorems of kinetic energy and kinetic moment. gravitational interference.
Electromagnetism and optical
Vacuum electrostatic and linear and isotropic dielectric media: electrostatic field, potential. Gauss' Theorem. Driver balance. Condensers.
Electrocinetic:
- laws of circuits. Networks. Sources of tension. Power sources. Continuous currents, alternative currents. Complex electrical impedance. Power in continuous and sinusoidal systems;
– free, forced and maintained electrical oscillations. Resonance. Electromechanical analogy;
― the production and distribution of electrical energy. Electrical security.
Magnetostatic vacuum and linear and isotropic magnetic media: magnetic induction. Magnetic force.
Electromagnetic and self-induction induction: electromagnetic force. Electric generators.
Maxwell's Equations:
- progressive waves and stationary waves. Monochromatic electromagnetic waves. Polarization. Reflexion, refraction. Doppler effect. Radar;
― dispersion of electromagnetic waves in media. Group speed and phase speed. Propagation in the lines. Metal guides. Resonance in the cavities. Radiant systems, antennas.
Electromagnetic waves in the field of visible and infrared:
- model of the light beam. Refraction index. Mirrors. Dioptre. Lentils thin. Association of two thin lenses. Earth light and astronomical bezel. Telescope. Microscope;
- interference. Huygens-Fresnel principle. Diffraction. Optical fibers. Laser operating principle;
- energy photometry. Flux, intensity, light, energy illumination. Visual photometry marks.
Electronics and electricity
General:
– conservation laws, electric current, elementary dipôle. Passive elements;
– laws of Kirchhoff, general theorems, duality.
Electronic components and RLC circuits on a permanent and transitional basis:
complex impedances, transfer functions, complex power and impedance adaptation. Reaction loops;
• response to a sinusoidal circuit.
Operating amplifier in linear and saturated: follow-up, reversing, non-reversing, summator, subtractor, integrator, oscillator.
Thermodynamic and mechanical fluids
Classic thermodynamic: the three principles. Thermodynamic potentiels. Balance conditions. Stability of a balance. Thermal machines.
Kinetic gas theory: pressure. Free average course. The perfect gas to balance. Average kinetic energy. Thermodynamic temperature. The state of the perfect gas. Speed distribution. Real gas. Equation of Van der Waals.
Fluid statistics: theorem of Archimedes. Surface tension. Capillarity.
Cinematic fluids: Euler's equation. Relation of Bernoulli. Viscosity. Number of Reynolds.
Atomic physics and nuclear physics
Atom structure: hydrogen atom. Atomic systems with several electrons.
General characteristics of the atomic nucleus.
Natural and artificial radioactivity:
- radioactive decay. Period. Radioactive filiation. Nuclear reactions. Effective section notion. Liaison energy. Fission. Principle of the operation of nuclear reactors;
– nuclear methods of analysis.
Elements of radiation protection and protection of human life.
(g) Chemistry option:
This test consists of drafting, without the assistance of documentation, a duty relating to one of the issues in the following program:
Atomistic
Electronic structure of the atom.
Chemical bonds; ionic, covalent, metallic bonds; atomic orbitals; molecular orbitals; polarity of bonds; multiple links; off-site links.
Molecular orbits; homonuclear diatomical molecules; heteronuclear diatomical molecules.
Periodic classification; periodic properties.
Chemical thermodynamic
States of a system; state variables; state functions.
Perfect gas model.
First principle; Standard states; formation enthalpie; liaison energy.
Second principle; entropy.
Third principle; standard molar entropy; free enthalpie.
Solutions properties; chemical potential; Henry's law; activity; Raoult law; standard state.
Physical balances; state changes; phase change diagrams.
Ionic balances; Low-soluble salts; acids and bases; buffer solutions.
Odoreduction balances; oxidation number; oxidation reactions; electrodes and batteries; Nernst equation; electrolysis.
Chemical
Response speed; reaction order; Speed constant.
Simple reaction speed laws; activation energy.
Theory of collisions; Complex theory activated.
Cinetics of nuclear disintegration reactions; radioactivity.
Catalyse ; enzyme reactions.
Organic chemistry
Geometric structure of molecules; stereochemistry.
Reactivity in organic chemistry; basic concepts: electronic effects; steric effects; orbital effects (frontal orbitals); aromaticity; acidic-basicity; nucleophilia, electrophia.
Reactional mechanisms: reactionary intermediaries; solvent effects; kinetic control, thermodynamic control.
Types of reactions: nucleophile and electrophia substitution; nucleophile and electrophile addition; radical reaction; elimination; oxidoreduction; transposition.
Study of the main chemical functions: alcenes; alcynes; alcohols; halogenated derivatives; aromatic; amines; aldehydes and ketone; carboxylic acids and derivatives; epoxy.
Polymers; polymerization techniques; macromolecule synthesis and configuration; large classes of synthetic and natural polymers.
Inorganic chemistry
Structural inorganic chemistry; Brait networks; compact stacking.
Phase balance diagrams.
Molecular inorganic chemistry; transitional metal complexes (molecular orbital charts, crystalline field); organometallic chemistry; reactivity (notion of lability and inertia); optical and magnetic properties.
Analytical chemistry
Spectroscopic methods (compound identification); UV spectroscopy, visible, IR; RMN spectrometry (proton, carbon 13); mass spectrometry (electronic impact, chemical ionisation).
Separation methods; molecular interactions; sharing coefficient; chromatography on thin layers; gas chromatography; liquid chromatography.
Electrochemical methods; amperometry; voltametry; polarography.
Thermal analysis; thermometric analysis (ATD, AED); thermomechanical analysis.
Cristallography; diffraction of X-rays.
(h) Biology option:
This test consists of drafting, without the assistance of documentation, a duty relating to one of the issues in the following program:
Cell biology, biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics
The fundamental chemical components of living beings. Relationship between the chemical structure of molecules and their functions.
The characters of eucaryotes, procaryotes and viruses.
Cell cycle and determinism in eucaryotes.
Intra and intercellular exchanges and communications.
Cell energy metabolism. Sources and conversions of energy in cell life: breathing, fermentation, photosynthesis, chemiosynthesis.
Genetic information: nature, transmission and expression in procaryotes and eucaryotes.
Stability and variations in genetic information: recombination in vivo and in vitro, mutations.
Genetic engineering: methods and applications.
Animal Biology and Physiology
(the program is restricted to mammals)
Relationship function: Structural, functional and system regulation for relation function:
– the transmission of information within the organization: nervous and humoral communications;
• sensory functions (definition and general description of the sensory function from examples);
- specialized sensory organs and cells; the transduction of sensory stimuli into receptor potential and then into a spreading nervous message; interoception; exteroception;
- reflex movements, voluntary movements;
― the functioning of the effectors: muscle and skeleton.
Nutrition function: Structural, functional organization and regulation of nutrition function systems:
- food needs;
- diet and digestion;
- breathing;
- traffic;
– the great ways of metabolism and their regulation at the body level;
- excretion.
Reproduction function, development and growth:
- the determination and differentiation of sex;
- gametogenesis and fertilization;
― embryonic development and post-mbryonic development, their determinisms;
- embryonic, fetal and neonatal physiology;
― the parturition and lactation;
- the breeding cycle;
– mastery of human reproduction.
Maintaining the integrity and identity of the organization:
- immunology: non-specific and specific immune responses, cellular and humoral immunity, disorders and deficiencies of the immune system, the principle of immunotherapy;
― the internal environment: the regulation of blood parameters, hemostasis, water balance and osmography;
– the reactions of the body according to its living environment.
Plant Biology and Physiology
(the program is restricted to angiosperms)
Cytology, histology and anatomy of angiosperms.
Growth and development:
– the plant cell and the plant tissues, structure, layout, role;
growth and organogenesis: apical cell, notion of meristema, unlimited organogenesis and histogenesis;
– growth rates, correlations, growth regulators.
Sex reproduction:
- meiosis, fertilization, zygote, alternation of generations;
flower: edification, structure, operation; egg and seed, germination, fruit;
― flowering physiology: flowering, vernalization, photoperiodism.
Vegetative multiplication:
- diversity of natural and artificial vegetative multiplication;
– in vitro culture, biological and physiological bases, interests.
Importance of soil in plant biology.
Nutrition:
mineral nutrition: absorption, transport, use of water and mineral elements, perspiration;
• photosynthesis; photorespiration; become synthesized constituents; autotrophy; heterotrophy.
Ecology
Ecosystem Notion. Some examples of how an ecosystem works.
Relations and interactions between living species: parasitism, saprophytism, symbiosis, competition, predation.
Role of biotic and abiotic factors in the environment.
Human action on ecosystems.
Life in extremes.
Organization of communities and dynamics of settlements.
Evolution
The ontogenic and phylogenic aspects of evolution.
The specimen.
Genetics and evolution. Genetic polymorphism.
The origin and evolution of life.
Major stages of life diversification, correlation with environmental changes, radiation, extinctions.
Hypologetic reconstitutions: concept of paleontological species, analysis of lines, cladistic analysis.
Palaeontology inputs to the analysis of the modalities and mechanisms of biological evolution.
The water out of the vertebrates.
Hominization.
(i) Information and communication technology option:
This test consists of drafting, without the assistance of documentation, a duty relating to one of the issues in the following program:
Networks and communications
OSI model.
Transmission and communication materials.
Local networks (Ethernet, Token Ring, broadband, FDDI).
TCP/IP network protocols.
Network administration.
Computer architecture
The components and architecture of a micro-computer.
The processors.
The different buses.
Memory.
Peripheral buses.
Mass memory.
Video cards.
Special devices (multimedia...).
Internet/intranet
The main tools and search engines. Methodology.
Security issues.
Operating systems
Features of operating systems.
Resource management.
Memory management.
Inputs/outputs.
Algorithmic
Sequential, iterative, alternative structure.
Lists, batteries, rows, trees.
Research and sorting algorithms.
Security.
Language C
Operators.
Pointers.
Functions.
Tables, strings, structures.
Databases
The functions of a relational database management system (SGBDR).
Organizations (hierarchical, network, relational, object).
The relational model of EF CODD.
The databases distributed.
SQL language: queries and views.
Conduct of projects
Software life cycle.
Software quality.
MERISE method.
Security of information systems.
Law and information technology
The Computer Law and Freedoms (National Commission on Information and Freedoms).
Intellectual property.
Computer crime.
(j) Penal law option:
This test consists of drafting, without the assistance of documentation, a duty relating to one of the issues in the following program:
General criminal law
The criminal phenomenon (crime and crime).
The definition of criminal law (legal and scientific content).
The evolution of criminal law and criminal doctrines (from antiquity to today).
Reports of criminal law with other disciplines (legal and non-legal).
The principle of legality of offences and penalties (justification and decline).
Domestic sources of criminal law (constitutional sources, ordinary laws, regulations).
Extranational sources of criminal law (community law and human rights).
Customs, customs, customs, circulars, general principles of law and conventions in criminal law.
Appreciation of the validity of the texts (constitutionality control and legality control).
The interpretation of the texts in criminal matters.
Timely application of texts in criminal matters.
The application of texts in space in criminal matters.
The criminal qualification of the facts.
Classifications of offences (crimes, offences, contraventions and other distinctions).
The material element of the offences (attempted offences, offences consumed).
The moral element of offences (intentional and unintentional offences).
Subjective causes of irresponsibility or mitigation of criminal liability (mental disorders, constraint, error of law, criminal minority).
The evidence of the offence.
Amnesty.
The principle of criminal responsibility for personal fact.
The criminal responsibility of co-authors and accomplices.
The criminal responsibility of legal persons.
The aims of the sanction in criminal matters.
The legal classifications of criminal sanctions (criminal, correctional, contraventional, primary and secondary penalties, penalties and security measures).
Custodial or restrictive sentences.
Heritage sentences.
Custodial or restrictive penalties.
Recidivism and other causes of aggravation of the sentence.
The actual offence contest.
Legal causes of exemption or mitigation.
The methods of judicial customization of sentences.
The execution of sentences.
Extinct sentences.
Criminal procedure
Definition and purpose of criminal proceedings.
Distinction of criminal proceedings and other procedures.
The history of criminal proceedings: major criminal procedure systems (accusatory procedure, inquisitorial procedure, mixed procedures).
The sources of the French criminal procedure.
The guiding principles of the French criminal procedure (preliminary article of the Code of Criminal Procedure resulting from the Act of 15 June 2000).
Criminal evidence (general principles of evidence and evidence).
Organization and jurisdiction of repressive courts (general principles of organization; classifications of courts: rules of jurisdiction).
The status and powers of the public prosecutors.
Organization of the judicial police and judicial police operations (administrative police and judicial police; officers and judicial police officers; identity checks and checks; preliminary investigations and investigations of flagrante delicto.
Actions brought before the criminal courts (public action and civil action).
Preparatory instruction (general characteristics; referral, powers, and duties of the investigating judge; course of the instruction; rogatory commissions; expertise; role of the judge of freedoms and detention; role of the board of instruction; nullity of information).
Judgment (court procedure and remedies; authority of the matter judged).
Special criminal law
Definition, object and sources of special law.
Offences against persons:
- offences of a purely bodily nature:
― voluntary attacks on the lives of others (murder, poisoning);
- voluntary harm to the integrity of others (violences);
- involuntary homicides;
- involuntary harm to the integrity of others;
– Hazardous Offences:
― deliberately endangering others (declaring risks to others)
- driving in alcoholic conditions;
― failure to provide relief to anyone at risk;
drug offences;
sexual offences:
sexual assault (viol and other assaults, sexual exposure, sexual harassment)
- non-violent sexual abuse on minors;
- offences against the child and the family:
- non-compliance with monetary obligations (release of family);
― non-compliance with custody obligations (non-representation of children);
– breaches the physical or psychological integrity or morality of the minor (food or care deprivation, moral abandonment, the dissemination of pornographic or violent messages).
Offences against property:
- fundamental criminalization of fraudulent appropriations:
― theft, scam, abuse of trust, recel of things;
– destruction, deterioration and degradation of property.
Other offences:
- offences against public interests:
― false and use of false, active corruption and passive corruption, illegal taking of interest;
corporate offences:
- abuse of social property.
(k) Administrative right option:
This test consists of drafting, without the assistance of documentation, a duty relating to one of the issues in the following program:
Sources of administrative law
Internal sources.
International treaties.
The administrative organization
State administration:
the central administration, the President of the Republic;
– Prime Minister, ministers, advisory administration, independent administrative authorities;
― the disconcerned state administration (prefect, sub-prefect), the state's external services.
Local authorities:
― the region, department, commune, community groups of local communities, the status of Paris-Lyon-Marseille, the administrative control of local authorities.
Public institutions.
The relationship between the public:
― centralization, decentralization and deconcentration.
The action of the administration
The principle of administrative legality.
The purpose of the administration's action:
the general theory of public services;
the administrative police.
Extra-contractual administrative liability:
― the responsibility of the administration; liability for fault, responsibility without fault;
– the grievor's responsibility and his relationship with the administration.
Administrative justice
The main administrative courts:
the State Council;
- administrative appeal courses;
- administrative courts.
Sharing jurisdictions between administrative and judicial courts, the Dispute Tribunal.
litigation; the prerogatives of the administration, the distinction of litigation, the litigation procedure, the appeal for excess of power, remedies.
Public Service
The general theory of public service law; the sources, composition and legal status of staff, the general organization of the public service.
The legal regime of the public service; the grievor's career, the grievor's rights and obligations.
(l) Constitutional right and public freedoms:
This test consists of drafting, without the assistance of documentation, a duty relating to one of the issues in the following program:
Constitutional law
Introduction: the subject of constitutional law: the political organization of any human community constituted in State.
Fundamental principles of constitutional law
Political power, State and constitution.
Study of the unitary state and the federal state.
Typology of political regimes and corresponding forms of state:
- monocratic form;
- oligarchical form;
democratic form.
Major contemporary political systems:
– authoritarian systems, totalitarian systems;
– modern democratic systems.
The concept of constitutional law
The sources of constitutional law:
constitutional laws;
the superiority of constitutional laws on ordinary laws and the control of the constitutionality of laws;
- declarations of law and their legal value.
Reports of constitutional law and international law.
French constitutional history since the Third Republic.
The Constitution of the Fifth Republic
Its basic principles:
national sovereignty and separation of powers.
The fundamental organs of the State and their functions:
the President of the Republic;
the Government;
- Parliament;
the Constitutional Council and constitutional control;
the judicial authority and its independence.
Public freedoms
General principles of public freedoms
The concept of public freedoms:
freedom;
– the bipartite classification of public freedoms (individual freedom and collective freedoms).
The sources of public freedoms:
the constitutional source;
the conventional source;
the legislative source;
the regulatory source;
- Jurisprudential sources;
- the hierarchy of sources.
The protection of public freedoms:
- judicial control (protection against the law and protection against the acts of the administration);
- non-judicial control (the Ombudsman of the Republic and the strengthening of the guarantee of the administered).
The limits to public freedoms:
― exceptional regimes (Article 16 of the Constitution, state of siege, state of emergency, theory of exceptional circumstances).
The main public freedoms
Individual freedoms:
– the protection of privacy;
personal security;
– freedom to go and come;
- the right to life.
Collective freedoms:
freedom of assembly;
freedom of demonstration;
– freedom of association;
freedom of the press;
freedom of audiovisual communication;
religious freedom;
– freedom of education.
(m) Community and European law option:
This test consists of drafting, without the assistance of documentation, a duty relating to one of the issues in the following program:
General Community law/institutional aspects
The stages of European construction:
• Creation of the Communities;
- evolution of the Communities;
– Communities in the European Union.
The institutional system of the European communities:
status and skills;
- institutions and bodies/repartition of powers;
- finances of the European Union;
external relations of the Communities.
The legal system of the European Communities:
- sources of community law: different types of acts;
― the character of community law: the principle of immediate applicability/the principle of direct applicability/the principle of primacy;
implementation of community law.
The judicial system of the European Communities:
• Community jurisdictional bodies;
the different types of appeal;
judicial cooperation in the European Communities.
Europe in perspective:
Europe in the world;
– Europe of defence;
– Europe of police and justice.
Material Community Law/Actions and Policies
of the European Communities
Domestic market law:
- the freedom of movement of goods (exhibition of customs duties and equivalent effect taxes, prohibition of quantitative restrictions on trade and equivalent measures of effect);
– people (field of application, content of free circulation);
services;
- capital;
- competition rules;
- rules applicable to private and public enterprises (agreements, dominant position and concentration);
- aids granted by States (principle for the prohibition of State aids, exemptions, significant role of the European Commission).
The Economic and Monetary Union.
Social policy and economic and social cohesion:
social policy:
context (political, legal, socio-economic);
― field of action (thematic and implementation modalities);
- regulation (decision process and achievements);
economic and social cohesion:
- assistance to regions (structural actions, pragmatic approaches, principles and central themes);
― the different types of actions (action by goal and community initiatives).
Common agricultural policy.
Transport policy.
Common trade policy/relations between the European Union and the World Trade Organization.
Public services and the European Union: heterogeneity of national designs:
European institutions and public service.
(n) Option international relations:
This test consists of drafting, without the assistance of documentation, a duty relating to one of the issues in the following program:
History of international relations since 1945
The period 1945-1990:
- East-West relations;
decolonization, non-alignment and North-South reports.
The recompositions after 1990:
the collapse of the USSR and the end of bipolarity;
– transformations in Europe;
– the erasure of the third world.
Fundamental data of international relations
General data on demographic, geographic, cultural, religious, military and technological factors underlying international relations. Geopolitical and geostrategic elements.
Great legal principles of international relations. Reports of force and law.
Actors of international relations:
- States (constitutive elements, legal principles of equality and sovereignty and hierarchy between States, independence, competence, function and transformation of States, the right of peoples to self-determination, succession of states);
international organizations; origins and general theory. The United Nations and specialized agencies, regional organizations;
– private actors in international relations. The individual, multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Role of civil society in international relations.
Summary of sources of international law:
international treaties, customs, general principles of law;
the acts of international organizations;
- unilateral acts.
The instruments of international relations
The diplomatic tool. Central Authority (President of the Republic, Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Parliamentary Control). Diplomatic and consular agents (statut, functions). Diplomatic relations.
International negotiation.
The peaceful settlement of disputes and the principle of prohibition of the use of force. International litigation (summary notifications on judicial and arbitrary bodies and their procedure).
The work of the United Nations and other agencies in conflict prevention and resolution, peace operations.
International responsibility. Constraint measures (sanctions and countermeasures), self-defence, conditions of use of armed force.
Diplomacy and military matters, modalities for conducting external operations, arms control and disarmament. Defense and security in Europe.
New areas of international action
The phenomenon of globalization and its effects.
Trade, economic and financial relations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), a summary of international financial institutions and regional economic integration organizations outside the European framework: North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mercado Comun del Sur (MERCOSUR).
International protection of human rights.
The development of international criminal justice.
Humanitarian action.
International protection of the environment.
The circulation of men and ideas.
The foreign policy of France
The political and security aspect.
Financial, economic and commercial aspects, development cooperation and assistance, cultural aspects.
The European construction
The stages of European construction.
European institutions.
The decision-making processes of the European Union.
The European Common Security Policy.
Cooperation in the areas of justice and internal affairs.
The enlargement of the European Union.
The Economic and Monetary Union.
(o) Foreign living language option:
This event must allow to evaluate both the level of linguistic culture (idioms, grammar, vocabulary...), the teaching, literary knowledge of the language and civilization of the country chosen by each candidate. The foreign living language test consists of:
– a translation (theme and version);
– a written composition, in the chosen language relating to a topical or social issue relating to the country concerned.
The languages offered for the choice of candidates are: German, English, Spanish, Italian.
The use of the monolingual or bilingual dictionary is prohibited.
II. - Nature, form and programs of admission tests
Admission tests include:
Oral tests
A general fitness test (duration 45: minutes); coefficient 8).
A test on the general organization of defence and internal security (duration 30: minutes); coefficient 4).
A foreign living language test (duration 30: minutes); coefficient 4).
Sports events with average grades
is affected by coefficient 2
A race to climb to the smooth rope.
A swim test.
A race test (distance 3 000 meters).
A race test (distance 50 meters).
2.1. Nature, form and programs of oral examinations
2.1.1. General aptitude test
This trial aims to highlight the suitability of the candidate in the state of gendarmerie with regard to his personality and motivation, as well as his general culture, his faculties of expression and reasoning, his vivacity of mind and his emotional balance.
It includes:
― an individual interview, conducted by a psychologist, to inform the president of the jury on the suitability of the candidate for employment. This interview requires no specific preparation and includes written tests and oral interview;
- an individual interview with the president and the vice-presidents of the jury. It begins with a 15 to 20-minute presentation on a general theme related to ideas or facts that are necessary for understanding the modern world. He continues in the form of a dialogue with the jury.
After drawing the subject of the initial presentation, the candidate has a preparation time of 20 minutes.
For this interview, the president of the jury has, as an indication, the candidate's file.
2.1.2. Test on the general organization
Defence and Internal Security
This test is intended to highlight the knowledge of candidates on national defence and security policy choices.
It consists of an interrogation comprising, on the one hand, a statement drawn by lot and, on the other hand, sub-items in the following programme.
For this test, a memento is provided to eligible candidates and includes a bibliography designed to deepen the themes addressed.
After drawing the subject of the presentation, the candidate has a preparation time of about 20 minutes.
Issues
National sovereignty.
Defence in a European context:
- concept and problem.
Threats: risk and vulnerability:
- demographic imbalances;
– Inter-ethnic regional conflicts;
- chemical and biological threats;
the nuclear threat;
terrorism;
– factors of insecurity.
The foundations and doctrine
French defence policy since 1945.
The French concept of defence.
The policy of nuclear deterrence.
The white book on defense.
Public policies for internal security.
Organization and actors
The general defence organization.
Military defence:
– major actors (national military, army of land, air force, national navy);
the role of the gendarmerie in the operational defence of the territory.
Economic defence.
Civil defence.
The internal security system:
– the actors;
– partnerships.
2.1.3. Foreign living language test
This test consists of commenting in the chosen language and then translating, in part or in its entirety, a text on a topic of news or society drawn from the daily or periodic press, excluding any article using a technical vocabulary. It can continue with a short general interview with the examiner.
The candidate opts for one of the following languages: German, English, Spanish, Italian, obligatoryly different from the one chosen at the fourth qualifying test.
The use of the monolingual or bilingual dictionary is prohibited. After drawing lots of the support text of the interrogation, the candidate has a preparation time of about 30 minutes.
2.2. Nature, form and scale of sporting events
2.2.1. Swimming test
It is about swimming in free style, in swimming pool, a distance of 50 meters with or without turns. The candidate may, at his or her choice, plunge, jump or be already in the water in contact with the wall at the time the departure is given. The candidates are in a bathing suit. The only authorized equipment is: bath cap, swimming glasses, pinch and ear caps.
Competitors are divided by groups of numerical importance as similar as possible and numbered to five swimmers.
2.2.2. Half ground racing test
This is a 3000-metre race, carried out on an athletics track, starting online.
Candidates are in sportswear and footwear are allowed.
Candidates perform this test by groups of numerical importance as similar as possible and in numbers less than or equal to fifteen.
2.2.3. Speed racing test
This is a 50-metre race, carried out on a track and in a corridor, the departure can be made using starting-blocks.
Candidates are in sportswear and footwear are allowed.
The candidates perform this test by groups of digital importance as similar as possible.
2.2.4. Proof of rope climbing
This is to climb to the smooth rope in free style and in limited time only once a rope of 5 meters measured from the ground.
The departure is on a foot at the initiative of the candidate. The chronometer is triggered when the candidate's second foot leaves the ground. The chronometer is stopped when the candidate touches the 5-metre mark. If the time is 9 seconds for boys and 15 seconds for girls without the 5-metre mark being affected, the candidate is arrested and the height is taken into account according to the given scale.
The rope is marked every 50 centimeters, from 1.5 meters to 6 meters.
2.2.5. Sports competitions
| NOTES | NATATION 50 M | COURSE 50 M | COURSE 3,000 M | CORDE 5 M | ||||
| H | F | H | F | H | F | H | F | |
| 20 | 0' 29'' 6 | 0' 36'' 2 | 6'' 47 | 7'' 61 | 10' 29''' | 12' 58''' | 4'' 05 | 5'' 99 |
| 19 | 0' 30'' 2 | 0' 37'' 2 | 6''' 51 | 7'' 69 | 10' 41'' | 13' 16''' | 4'' 16 | 6''' 49 |
| 18 | 0' 30'' 8 | 0' 38'' 4 | 6''' 56 | 7'' 77 | 10' 53''' | 13' 37''' | 4'' 27 | 7'' 04 |
| 17 | 0' 31''' 6 | 0' 39'' 7 | 6'' 61 | 7'' '86 | 11' 06''' | 13' 59''' | 4'' 41 | 7'' 63 |
| 16 | 0' 32'' 3 | 0' 41'' 1 | 6'' 65 | 7'' '96 | 11' 21'' | 14' 23'' | 4'' 56 | 8'' 28 |
| 15 | 0' 33'' 1 | 0' 42'' 7 | 6''' 70 | 8' 07 | 11' 36'' | 14' 49''' | 4'' 73 | 8'' 97 |
| 14 | 0' 35''' 1 | 0' 44''' 5 | 6'' 82 | 8'' 18 | 11' 53'' | 15' 17''' | 4'' 93 | 9'' 73 |
| 13 | 0' 36'' 5 | 0' 46''' 5 | 6'' '89 | 8'' 31 | 12' 10''' | 15' 48''' | 5''' 16 | 10''' 55 |
| 12 | 0' 38'' 0 | 0' 48'' 8 | 6'' 97 | 8'' 44 | 12' 29''' | 16' 21'' | 5''' 43 | 11'' 44 |
| 11 | 0' 39'' 7 | 0' 51'' 3 | 7'' 06 | 8'' 58 | 12' 50''' | 16' 58''' | 5'' 75 | 12'' 40 |
| 10 | 0' 41'' 7 | 0' 54'' 1 | 7'' 15 | 8'' 73 | 13' 12''' | 17' 37'''' | 6'' 13 | 13'' 08 |
| 9 | 0' 43'' 9 | 0' 57''' 2 | 7''' 25 | 8'' 89 | 13' 36''' | 18' 19'' | 6'' 60 | 13''' 36 |
| 8 | 0' 46''' 4 | 1 00'' 8 | 7''' 36 | 9'' 06 | 14' 02''' | 19' 06''' | 7'' 19 | 14'' 04 |
| 7 | 0' 49''' 1 | 1' 04'' 7 | 7'' 47 | 9''' 25 | 14' 29''' | 19' 56''' | 7'' 95 | 14''' 32 |
| 6 | 0' 52'' 3 | 1' 09'' 1 | 7'' 60 | 9'' 45 | 14' 59''' | 20' 51'' | 9'' | 15' 00 |
| 5 | 0' 56'' 0 | 1' 14'' 0 | 7'' 70 | 9'' 70 | 15' 30''' | 21' 40''' | 3.5 m (1) | 3.5 m (1) |
| 4 | 0' 59'' 8 | 1' 19'' 6 | 7''' 88 | 9'' 89 | 16' 05''' | 22' 54''' | 3 m (1) | 3 m (1) |
| 3 | 1' 04'' 2 | 1' 25'' 8 | 8'' 03 | 10'' 14 | 16' 42''' | 24' 04''' | 2.5 m (1) | 2.5 m (1) |
| 2 | 1' 09''' 3 | 1' 32'' 7 | 8'' 20 | 10''' 40 | 17' 22''' | 25' 19''' | 2 m (1) | 2 m (1) |
| 1 | 1' 14'' 9 | 1'40'' 5 | 8'' 38 | 10''' 69 | 18' 05''' | 26' 42''' | 1.5 m (1) | 1.5 m (1) |
| 0 | Note awarded to any candidate who does not attend a test, does not complete it or performs a lower performance to note 1. | |||||||
| (1) With the following time limitations: 9 seconds for boys and 15 seconds for girls without the 5-metre margin or hit. Note. ― In case of intermediate performance, the rating to be assigned is the one that corresponds to the immediately lower performance. | ||||||||
A N N E X E I
ASSISTANCE ON ORGANIZED ASSISTANCE OF THE YEAR 2009 ASSESSED TO THE GENDARMER GENDARTERY SUBSTANCES TITULAR TO THE GLOBAL DIPLOYMENT OF THE GLOBALLY
(3° of Article 6 and I of Article 45 of Decree No. 2008-946
of 12 September 2008)
I. - Nature, form and programs of eligibility tests
Written examinations include:
– a general culture test (duration: 4 hours); 25 coefficient);
– a test for the introduction to the study of law or constitutional law (duration: 3 hours); coefficient 25).
1.1. General culture test
This test is intended to highlight, in addition to the knowledge and personal ideas of the candidates, their general qualities of style, clarity of mind, judgment and method.
It consists of drafting, with or without the help of documentation, a duty on a matter of general interest or news.
The subjects relate to ideas or facts that are essential to the understanding of the modern world.
1.2. Proof of introduction to law study
or Constitutional Law
This test consists of drafting, without the assistance of documentation, a duty relating to one of the issues in the program below.
Introduction to the Study of Law
The field of law.
The sources of law.
The general theory of law.
Case law and its role.
The judicial organisation in France.
Constitutional law
Constitutional law; its object:
democracy and election;
– the parliamentary system and the collaboration of powers;
– the presidential regime and the separation of powers.
The Constitution of the Fifth Republic:
General study (historical, formation, general philosophy);
the President of the Republic;
the Government;
- Parliament;
the Constitutional Council;
- secondary constitutional bodies;
– revision of the Constitution.
II. - Nature, form and schedule of admission tests
Admission tests include:
Oral tests
A general fitness test (duration: 50 minutes, 20 minutes of preparation; coefficient 20).
A professional knowledge test (duration: 50 minutes, 20 minutes of preparation; coefficient 20).
Sports events with an average rating of 10:
- a swimming test;
- a speed race test;
– a half-ground race test;
– a rope climbing test.
2.1. Nature, form and program of oral examinations
2.1.1. General aptitude test
This trial aims to highlight the suitability of the candidate in the state of gendarmerie with regard to his personality and motivation, as well as his general culture, his faculties of expression and reasoning, his vivacity of mind and his emotional balance.
It includes:
― an individual interview, conducted by a psychologist, to inform the president of the jury on the suitability of the candidate for employment. This interview requires no specific preparation and includes written tests and oral interview;
an individual interview with the president and the vice-president of the jury. It begins with a 15 to 20-minute presentation on a general theme related to ideas or facts that are necessary for understanding the modern world. He continues in the form of a dialogue with the jury.
After drawing the subject of the initial presentation, the candidate has a preparation time of 20 minutes.
For this interview, the president of the jury has, as an indication, the candidate's file.
2.1.2. Proof of professional knowledge
The purpose of this test is to verify that the candidate has acquired sufficient knowledge of the content of the texts relating to major professional areas.
It consists of an interrogation comprising, on the one hand, a statement drawn by lot and, on the other hand, sub-items in the following programme. After drawing the subject of the presentation, the candidate has a preparation time of 20 minutes.
General organisation of defence in France
The French concept of defence.
The policy of nuclear deterrence.
Major actors (national gendarmerie, army of land, air, national navy).
The National Gendarmerie: its role in the operational defence of the territory.
Economic defence.
Civil defence.
Knowledge of statutory and regulatory texts
The general status of the military.
The statutory positions of the military.
The special status of the corps of gendarmerie officers.
Discipline in the armies.
General criminal law
The definition of criminal law.
The definition of the criminal offence.
The constituent elements of the offence (legal, material, moral).
Classification of offences (crimes, offences, contraventions).
The evidence of the offence.
The punitive attempt.
The principle of criminal responsibility.
The criminal responsibility of co-authors and accomplices.
The aggravating circumstances.
Causes of irresponsibility or mitigation of criminal responsibility.
Recidivism and other causes of aggravation of the sentence.
The actual offence contest.
Legal causes of exemption or mitigation.
Extinct sentences and penalties.
2.2. Nature, form and scale of sporting events
2.2.1. Swimming test
It is about swimming in free style, in swimming pool, a distance of 50 meters with or without turns. The candidate may, at his or her choice, plunge, jump or be already in the water in contact with the wall at the time the departure is given. The candidates are in a bathing suit. The only authorized equipment is: bath cap, swimming glasses, pinch and ear caps.
Competitors are divided by groups of numerical importance as similar as possible and numbered to five swimmers.
2.2.2. Half ground racing test
This is a 3000-metre race, carried out on an athletics track, starting online.
Candidates are in sportswear and footwear are allowed.
Candidates perform this test by groups of numerical importance as similar as possible and in numbers less than or equal to 15.
2.2.3. Speed racing test
This is a 50-metre race, carried out on a track and in a corridor, the departure can be made using starting-blocks.
Candidates are in sportswear and footwear are allowed.
The candidates perform this test by groups of digital importance as similar as possible.
2.2.4. Proof of rope climbing
This is to climb the smooth rope in free style and in limited time only once, a rope of 5 meters measured from the ground.
The departure is on one foot standing at the initiative of the candidate. The chronometer is triggered when the candidate's second foot leaves the ground. The chronometer is stopped when the candidate touches the 5-metre mark. If the time is 9 seconds for boys and 15 seconds for girls without the 5-metre mark being affected, the candidate is arrested and the height is taken into account according to the given scale.
The rope is marked every 50 centimeters from 1.5 meters to 5 meters.
2.2.5. Sports competitions
| NOTES | NATATION 50 M | COURSE 50 M | COURSE 3,000 M | CORDE 5 M | ||||
| H | F | H | F | H | F | H | F | |
| 20 | 0' 29'' 6 | 0' 36'' 2 | 6'' 47 | 7'' 61 | 10' 29''' | 12' 58''' | 4'' 05 | 5' 99 |
| 19 | 0' 30'' 2 | 0' 37'' 2 | 6''' 51 | 7'' 69 | 10' 41'' | 13' 16''' | 4'' 16 | 6''' 49 |
| 18 | 0' 30'' 8 | 0' 38'' 4 | 6''' 56 | 7'' 77 | 10' 53''' | 13' 37''' | 4'' 27 | 7'' 04 |
| 17 | 0' 31''' 6 | 0' 39'' 7 | 6'' 61 | 7'' '86 | 11' 06''' | 13' 59''' | 4'' 41 | 7'' 63 |
| 16 | 0' 32'' 3 | 0' 41'' 1 | 6'' 65 | 7'' '96 | 11' 21'' | 14' 23'' | 4'' 56 | 8'' 28 |
| 15 | 0' 33'' 1 | 0' 42'' 7 | 6''' 70 | 8' 07 | 11' 36'' | 14' 49''' | 4'' 73 | 8'' 97 |
| 14 | 0' 35''' 1 | 0' 44''' 5 | 6'' 82 | 8'' 18 | 11' 53'' | 15' 17''' | 4'' 93 | 9'' 73 |
| 13 | 0' 36'' 5 | 0' 46''' 5 | 6'' '89 | 8'' 31 | 12' 10''' | 15' 48''' | 5''' 16 | 10''' 55 |
| 12 | 0' 38'' 0 | 0' 48'' 8 | 6'' 97 | 8' 44''' | 12' 29''' | 16' 21'' | 5''' 43 | 11'' 44 |
| 11 | 0' 39'' 7 | 0' 51'' 3 | 7'' 06 | 8'' 58 | 12' 50''' | 16' 58''' | 5'' 75 | 12'' 40 |
| 10 | 0' 41'' 7 | 0' 54'' 1 | 7'' 15 | 8'' 73 | 13' 12''' | 17' 37'''' | 6'' 13 | 13'' 08 |
| 9 | 0' 43'' 9 | 0' 57''' 2 | 7''' 25 | 8'' 89 | 13' 36''' | 18' 19'' | 6'' 60 | 13''' 36 |
| 8 | 0' 46''' 4 | 1 00'' 8 | 7''' 36 | 9'' 06 | 14' 02''' | 19' 06''' | 7'' 19 | 14'' 04 |
| 7 | 0' 49''' 1 | 1' 04'' 7 | 7'' 47 | 9''' 25 | 14' 29''' | 19' 56''' | 7'' 95 | 14''' 32 |
| 6 | 0' 52'' 3 | 1' 09'' 1 | 7'' 60 | 9'' 45 | 14' 59''' | 20' 51'' | 9'' | 15' 00 |
| 5 | 0' 56'' 0 | 1' 14'' 0 | 7'' 70 | 9'' 70 | 15' 30''' | 21' 40''' | 3.5 m (1) | 3.5 m (1) |
| 4 | 0' 59'' 8 | 1' 19'' 6 | 7''' 88 | 9'' 89 | 16' 05''' | 22' 54''' | 3 m (1) | 3 m (1) |
| 3 | 1' 04'' 2 | 1' 25'' 8 | 8'' 03 | 10'' 14 | 16' 42''' | 24' 04''' | 2.5 m (1) | 2.5 m (1) |
| 2 | 1' 09''' 3 | 1' 32'' 7 | 8'' 20 | 10''' 40 | 17' 22''' | 25' 19''' | 2 m (1) | 2 m (1) |
| 1 | 1' 14'' 9 | 1'40'' 5 | 8'' 38 | 10''' 69 | 18' 05''' | 26' 42''' | 1.5 m (1) | 1.5 m (1) |
| 0 | Note awarded to any candidate who does not attend a test, does not complete it or performs a performance less than the sanctioned by note 1 | |||||||
| (1) With the following time limitations: 9 seconds for boys and 15 seconds for girls without the 5-metre margin or hit. Note. ― In case of intermediate performance, the rating to be assigned is the one that corresponds to the immediately lower performance. | ||||||||
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ASSISTANCE ON ORGANIZED ASSISTANCE OF THE ASSISTANCE OF THE ASSISTANCE OF THE ASSISTANCE OF
(3° of Article 6 and
I of Article 45 of Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008)
I. - Nature, form and programs of eligibility tests
Written examinations include:
– a general culture test (duration: 4 hours); 25 coefficient);
– an optional test (duration: 3 hours); 15 coefficient);
– a foreign language composition test (duration: 3 hours); coefficient 10).
1.1. General culture test
This test is intended to highlight, in addition to the knowledge and personal ideas of the candidates, their general qualities of style, clarity of mind, judgment and method.
It consists of drafting, with or without the help of documentation, a duty on a matter of general interest or news.
The subjects relate to ideas or facts that are essential to the understanding of the modern world.
1.2. Optional test
This test shall, at the option of the candidate, bear one of the following:
― synthesis of file;
- Professional concrete case.
1.2.1. Synthesis of file
This test aims to determine the suitability of candidates to highlight the essential ideas contained in a file between 10 and 20 pages on a general or professional subject and not to express their personal ideas on the subject. The synthesis, which must not exceed three pages, must be built according to the classic plan of a presentation and be written entirely in a clear and concise style. Only large parts may be preceded by a title.
1.2.2. Professional concrete case
This test is intended to determine the suitability of candidates to face a situation likely to be encountered in the exercise of responsibilities within a device or training under one of the two subdivisions of the weapon, as well as to demonstrate their ability to rely on tactics, equipment used by the gendarmerie, regulation, legislation, human resources management and implementation.
It consists of drafting, with or without the assistance of documentation, a duty on a general question that is relevant to a concrete professional situation, or in answering various questions that may arise at the discretion of the evolution of the problem developed in the concrete case.
1.3. Foreign language composition test
This test consists of writing, in the chosen language, with or without the help of documentation, a duty on a topic of news or society. The candidate must deal with the subject for which he opted, among the two proposed.
The candidate obtaining a rating greater than 8/20 shall, following the admission tests, be given points greater than 8 assigned to the coefficient 10.
The use of the monolingual or bilingual dictionary is prohibited.
This test can only be composed in a single language: German, English, Arabic, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
II. - Nature, form and schedule of admission tests
Admission tests include:
Oral tests
A general fitness test (duration: 50 minutes, 20 minutes of preparation; coefficient 20).
A professional knowledge test (duration: 50 minutes, 20 minutes of preparation; coefficient 20).
Sports events with an average rating of 10:
- a swimming test;
- a speed race test;
– a half-ground race test;
– a rope climbing test.
2.1. Nature, form and program of oral examinations
2.1.1. General aptitude test
This trial aims to highlight the suitability of the candidate in the state of gendarmerie with regard to his personality and motivation, as well as his general culture, his faculties of expression and reasoning, his vivacity of mind and his emotional balance.
It includes:
― an individual interview, conducted by a psychologist, to inform the president of the jury on the suitability of the candidate for employment. This interview requires no specific preparation and includes written tests and oral interview;
an individual interview with the president and the vice-president of the jury. It begins with a 15 to 20-minute presentation on a general theme related to ideas or facts that are necessary for understanding the modern world. He continues in the form of a dialogue with the jury.
After drawing the subject of the initial presentation, the candidate has a preparation time of 20 minutes.
For this interview, the president of the jury has, as an indication, the candidate's file.
2.1.2. Proof of professional knowledge
The purpose of this test is to verify that the candidate has acquired sufficient knowledge of the content of the texts relating to major professional areas.
It consists of an interrogation that includes, on the one hand, a presentation on a topic drawn by lot and, on the other, sub-items. After drawing the subject of the presentation, the candidate has a preparation time of 20 minutes.
Applicants must be interviewed on several topics so that their overall knowledge is objectively evaluated.
The briefing and sub-items are based on the following program.
A list will be circulated annually, specifying the texts to be known in the areas related to the general defence organization and to the knowledge of professional texts.
General organisation of defence in France
The French concept of defence.
The policy of nuclear deterrence.
Major actors (national military, army of land, air force, national navy).
The National Gendarmerie: its role in the operational defence of the territory.
Economic defence.
Civil defence.
Knowledge of professional texts
Organization and employment of units.
Intelligence.
The judicial police.
The administrative police.
Staff.
Logistics.
Telecommunications and IT.
General criminal law
The definition of criminal law.
The definition of the criminal offence.
The constituent elements of the offence (legal, material, moral).
Classification of offences (crimes, offences, contraventions).
The evidence of the offence.
The punitive attempt.
The principle of criminal responsibility.
The criminal responsibility of co-authors and accomplices.
The aggravating circumstances.
Causes of irresponsibility or mitigation of criminal responsibility.
Recidivism and other causes of aggravation of the sentence.
The actual offence contest.
Legal causes of exemption or mitigation.
Extinct sentences and penalties.
2.2. Nature, form and scale of sporting events
2.2.1. Swimming test
It is about swimming in free style, in swimming pool, a distance of 50 meters with or without turns. The candidate may, at his or her choice, plunge, jump or be already in the water in contact with the wall at the time the departure is given. The candidates are in a bathing suit. The only authorized equipment is: bath cap, swimming glasses, pinch and ear caps.
Competitors are divided by groups of numerical importance as similar as possible and numbered to five swimmers.
2.2.2. Half ground racing test
This is a 3000-metre race, carried out on an athletics track, starting online.
Candidates are in sportswear and footwear are allowed.
Candidates perform this test by groups of numerical importance as similar as possible and in numbers less than or equal to 15.
2.2.3. Speed racing test
This is a 50-metre race, carried out on a track and in a corridor, the departure can be made using starting-blocks.
Candidates are in sportswear and footwear are allowed.
The candidates perform this test by groups of digital importance as similar as possible.
2.2.4. Proof of rope climbing
This is to climb to the smooth rope in free style and in limited time only once a rope of 5 meters measured from the ground.
The departure is on one foot standing at the initiative of the candidate. The chronometer is triggered when the candidate's second foot leaves the ground. The chronometer is stopped when the candidate touches the 5-metre mark. If the time is 9 seconds for boys and 15 seconds for girls without the 5-metre mark being affected, the candidate is arrested and the height is taken into account according to the given scale.
The rope is marked every 50 centimeters from 1.5 meters to 5 meters.
2.2.5. Sports competitions
| NOTES | NATATION 50 M | COURSE 50 M | COURSE 3,000 M | CORDE 5 M | ||||
| H | F | H | F | H | F | H | F | |
| 20 | 0' 29'' 6 | 0' 36'' 2 | 6'' 47 | 7'' 61 | 10' 29''' | 12' 58''' | 4'' 05 | 5' 99 |
| 19 | 0' 30'' 2 | 0' 37'' 2 | 6''' 51 | 7'' 69 | 10' 41'' | 13' 16''' | 4'' 16 | 6''' 49 |
| 18 | 0' 30'' 8 | 0' 38'' 4 | 6''' 56 | 7'' 77 | 10' 53''' | 13' 37''' | 4'' 27 | 7'' 04 |
| 17 | 0' 31''' 6 | 0' 39'' 7 | 6'' 61 | 7'' '86 | 11' 06''' | 13' 59''' | 4'' 41 | 7'' 63 |
| 16 | 0' 32'' 3 | 0' 41'' 1 | 6'' 65 | 7'' '96 | 11' 21'' | 14' 23'' | 4'' 56 | 8'' 28 |
| 15 | 0' 33'' 1 | 0' 42'' 7 | 6''' 70 | 8' 07 | 11' 36'' | 14' 49''' | 4'' 73 | 8'' 97 |
| 14 | 0' 35''' 1 | 0' 44''' 5 | 6'' 82 | 8'' 18 | 11' 53'' | 15' 17''' | 4'' 93 | 9'' 73 |
| 13 | 0' 36'' 5 | 0' 46''' 5 | 6'' '89 | 8'' 31 | 12' 10''' | 15' 48''' | 5''' 16 | 10''' 55 |
| 12 | 0' 38'' 0 | 0' 48'' 8 | 6'' 97 | 8' 44''' | 12' 29''' | 16' 21'' | 5''' 43 | 11'' 44 |
| 11 | 0' 39'' 7 | 0' 51'' 3 | 7'' 06 | 8'' 58 | 12' 50''' | 16' 58''' | 5'' 75 | 12'' 40 |
| 10 | 0' 41'' 7 | 0' 54'' 1 | 7'' 15 | 8'' 73 | 13' 12''' | 17' 37'''' | 6'' 13 | 13'' 08 |
| 9 | 0' 43'' 9 | 0' 57''' 2 | 7''' 25 | 8'' 89 | 13' 36''' | 18' 19'' | 6'' 60 | 13''' 36 |
| 8 | 0' 46''' 4 | 1 00'' 8 | 7''' 36 | 9'' 06 | 14' 02''' | 19' 06''' | 7'' 19 | 14'' 04 |
| 7 | 0' 49''' 1 | 1' 04'' 7 | 7'' 47 | 9''' 25 | 14' 29''' | 19' 56''' | 7'' 95 | 14''' 32 |
| 6 | 0' 52'' 3 | 1' 09'' 1 | 7'' 60 | 9'' 45 | 14' 59''' | 20' 51'' | 9'' | 15' 00 |
| 5 | 0' 56'' 0 | 1' '14' 0 | 7'' 70 | 9'' 70 | 15' 30''' | 21' 40''' | 3.5 m (1) | 3.5 m (1) |
| 4 | 0' 59'' 8 | 1' 19'' 6 | 7''' 88 | 9'' 89 | 16' 05''' | 22' 54''' | 3 m (1) | 3 m (1) |
| 3 | 1' 04'' 2 | 1' 25'' 8 | 8'' 03 | 10'' 14 | 16' 42''' | 24' 04''' | 2.5 m (1) | 2.5 m (1) |
| 2 | 1' 09''' 3 | 1' 32'' 7 | 8'' 20 | 10''' 40 | 17' 22''' | 25' 19''' | 2 m (1) | 2 m (1) |
| 1 | 1' 14'' 9 | 1'40'' 5 | 8'' 38 | 10''' 69 | 18' 05''' | 26' 42''' | 1.5 m (1) | 1.5 m (1) |
| 0 | Note awarded to any candidate who does not attend a test, does not complete it or performs a performance less than which is sanctioned by note 1. | |||||||
| (1) With the following time limitations: 9 seconds for boys and 15 seconds for girls without the 5-metre margin or hit. Note. ― In case of intermediate performance, the rating to be assigned is the one that corresponds to the immediately lower performance. | ||||||||
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ASSISTANCE ON ORGANIZED OVERVIEW FROM 2011 TO THE SUB-OFFICIANS OF GENDARMER GENDARTERY TELEVANT LICENCE OF THE GLOBAL OR TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT OR ANY PART OF THE GLOBALLY
(3° of Article 6 of Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008)
I. - Nature, form and programs of eligibility tests
Written examinations include:
– a general culture test (duration: 4 hours); 25 coefficient);
– an optional test (duration: 3 hours); 15 coefficient);
– a foreign language composition test (duration: 3 hours); coefficient 10).
1.1. General culture test
This test is intended to highlight, in addition to the knowledge and personal ideas of the candidates, their general qualities of style, clarity of mind, judgment and method.
It consists of drafting, with or without the help of documentation, a duty on a matter of general interest or news.
The subjects relate to ideas or facts that are essential to the understanding of the modern world.
1.2. Optional test
This test shall, at the option of the candidate, bear one of the following:
― synthesis of file;
- Professional concrete case.
1.2.1. Synthesis of file
This test aims to determine the suitability of candidates to highlight the essential ideas contained in a file between 10 and 20 pages on a general or professional subject and not to express their personal ideas on the subject. The synthesis, which must not exceed three pages, must be built according to the classic plan of a presentation and be written entirely in a clear and concise style. Only large parts may be preceded by a title.
1.2.2. Professional concrete case
This test is intended to determine the suitability of candidates to face a situation likely to be encountered in the exercise of responsibilities within a device or training under one of the two subdivisions of the weapon, as well as to demonstrate their ability to rely on tactics, equipment used by the gendarmerie, regulation, legislation, human resources management and implementation.
It consists of drafting, with or without the assistance of documentation, a duty on a general question that is relevant to a concrete professional situation, or in answering various questions that may arise at the discretion of the evolution of the problem developed in the concrete case.
1.3. Foreign language composition test
This test consists of writing, in the chosen language, with or without the help of documentation, a duty on a topic of news or society. The candidate must deal with the subject for which he opted, among the two proposed.
The candidate obtaining a rating greater than 8/20 shall, following the admission tests, be given points greater than 8 assigned to the coefficient 10.
The use of the monolingual or bilingual dictionary is prohibited.
This test can only be composed in a single language: German, English, Arabic, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
II. - Nature, form and schedule of admission tests
Admission tests include:
Oral tests
A general fitness test (duration: 50 minutes, 20 minutes of preparation; coefficient 20).
A professional knowledge test (duration: 50 minutes, 20 minutes of preparation; coefficient 20).
Sports events with an average rating of 10:
A swimming test;
A speed race test;
A half-ground race test;
A rope climbing test.
2.1. Nature, form and program of oral examinations
2.1.1. General aptitude test
This trial aims to highlight the suitability of the candidate in the state of gendarmerie with regard to his personality and motivation, as well as his general culture, his faculties of expression and reasoning, his vivacity of mind and his emotional balance.
It includes:
― an individual interview, conducted by a psychologist, to inform the president of the jury on the suitability of the candidate for employment. This interview requires no specific preparation and includes written tests and oral interview;
an individual interview with the president and the vice-president of the jury. It begins with a 15 to 20-minute presentation on a general theme related to ideas or facts that are necessary for understanding the modern world. He continues in the form of a dialogue with the jury.
After drawing the subject of the initial presentation, the candidate has a preparation time of 20 minutes.
For this interview, the president of the jury has, as an indication, the candidate's file.
2.1.2. Proof of professional knowledge
The purpose of this test is to verify that the candidate has acquired sufficient knowledge of the content of the texts relating to major professional areas.
It consists of an interrogation that includes, on the one hand, a presentation on a topic drawn by lot and, on the other, sub-items. After drawing the subject of the presentation, the candidate has a preparation time of 20 minutes.
Applicants must be interviewed on several topics so that their overall knowledge is objectively evaluated.
The briefing and sub-items are based on the following program.
A list will be circulated annually, specifying the texts to be known in the areas related to the general defence organization and to the knowledge of professional texts.
General organisation of defence in France
The French concept of defence.
The policy of nuclear deterrence.
Major actors (national gendarmerie, army of land, air, national navy).
The National Gendarmerie: its role in the operational defence of the territory.
Economic defence.
Civil defence.
Knowledge of professional texts
Organization and employment of units.
The defense.
Intelligence.
The judicial police.
The administrative police.
Staff.
Logistics.
Telecommunications and IT.
General criminal law
The definition of criminal law.
The definition of the criminal offence.
The constituent elements of the offence (legal, material, moral).
Classification of offences (crimes, offences, contraventions).
The evidence of the offence.
The punitive attempt.
The principle of criminal responsibility.
The criminal responsibility of co-authors and accomplices.
The aggravating circumstances.
Causes of irresponsibility or mitigation of criminal responsibility.
Recidivism and other causes of aggravation of the sentence.
The actual offence contest.
Legal causes of exemption or mitigation.
Extinct sentences and penalties.
2.2. Nature, form and scale of sporting events
2.2.1. Swimming test
It is about swimming in free style, in swimming pool, a distance of 50 meters with or without turns. The candidate may, at his or her choice, plunge, jump or be already in the water in contact with the wall at the time the departure is given. The candidates are in a bathing suit. The only authorized equipment is: bath cap, swimming glasses, pinch and ear caps.
Competitors are divided by groups of numerical importance as similar as possible and numbered to five swimmers.
2.2.2. Half ground racing test
This is a 3000-metre race, carried out on an athletics track, starting online.
Candidates are in sportswear and footwear are allowed.
Candidates perform this test by groups of numerical importance as similar as possible and in numbers less than or equal to 15.
2.2.3. Speed racing test
This is a 50-metre race on a track and in a corridor, the departure can be made using starting-blocks.
Candidates are in sportswear and footwear are allowed.
The candidates perform this test by groups of digital importance as similar as possible.
2.2.4. Proof of rope climbing
This is to climb to the smooth rope in free style and in limited time only once a rope of 5 meters measured from the ground.
The departure is on one foot standing at the initiative of the candidate. The chronometer is triggered when the candidate's second foot leaves the ground. The chronometer is stopped when the candidate touches the 5-metre mark. If the time is 9 seconds for boys and 15 seconds for girls without the 5-metre mark being affected, the candidate is arrested and the height is taken into account according to the given scale.
The rope is marked every 50 centimeters from 1.5 meters to 5 meters.
2.2.5. Sports competitions
| NOTES | NATATION 50 M | COURSE 50 M | COURSE 3,000 M | CORDE 5 M | ||||
| H | F | H | F | H | F | H | F | |
| 20 | 0' 29'' 6 | 0' 36'' 2 | 6'' 47 | 7'' 61 | 10' 29''' | 12' 58''' | 4'' 05 | 5' 99 |
| 19 | 0' 30'' 2 | 0' 37'' 2 | 6''' 51 | 7'' 69 | 10' 41'' | 13' 16''' | 4'' 16 | 6''' 49 |
| 18 | 0' 30'' 8 | 0' 38'' 4 | 6''' 56 | 7'' 77 | 10' 53''' | 13' 37''' | 4'' 27 | 7'' 04 |
| 17 | 0' 31''' 6 | 0' 39'' 7 | 6'' 61 | 7'' '86 | 11' 06''' | 13' 59''' | 4'' 41 | 7'' 63 |
| 16 | 0' 32'' 3 | 0' 41'' 1 | 6'' 65 | 7'' '96 | 11'21'' | 14'23'' | 4'' 56 | 8'' 28 |
| 15 | 0'33''' 1 | 0'42'' 7 | 6''' 70 | 8' 07 | 11'36''' | 14'49'' | 4'' 73 | 8'' 97 |
| 14 | 0'35'' 1 | 0'44'' 5 | 6'' 82 | 8'' 18 | 11'53'' | 15'17''' | 4'' 93 | 9'' 73 |
| 13 | 0'36''' 5 | 0'46'' 5 | 6'' '89 | 8'' 31 | 12'10''' | 15'48'' | 5''' 16 | 10''' 55 |
| 12 | 0'38'' 0 | 0'48'' 8 | 6'' 97 | 8'44'' | 12'29''' | 16'21''' | 5''' 43 | 11'' 44 |
| 11 | 0'39' 7 | 0'51'' 3 | 7'' 06 | 8'' 58 | 12'50''' | 16'58''' | 5'' 75 | 12'' 40 |
| 10 | 0'41'' 7 | 0'54'' 1 | 7'' 15 | 8'' 73 | 13'12'' | 17'37''' | 6'' 13 | 13'' 08 |
| 9 | 0'43'' 9 | 0'57'' 2 | 7''' 25 | 8'' 89 | 13'36''' | 18'19'' | 6'' 60 | 13''' 36 |
| 8 | 0'46'' 4 | 1'00'' 8 | 7''' 36 | 9'' 06 | 14'02'' | 19'06'' | 7'' 19 | 14'' 04 |
| 7 | 0'49'' 1 | 1'04'' 7 | 7'' 47 | 9''' 25 | 14'29'' | 19'56''' | 7'' 95 | 14''' 32 |
| 6 | 0'52'' 3 | 1'09'' 1 | 7'' 60 | 9'' 45 | 14'59' | 20'51'' | 9'' | 15' 00 |
| 5 | 0'56'' 0 | 1'14'' 0 | 7'' 70 | 9'' 70 | 15'30''' | 21'40'' | 3.5 m (1) | 3.5 m (1) |
| 4 | 0'59'' 8 | 1'19'' 6 | 7''' 88 | 9'' 89 | 16'05''' | 22'54''' | 3 m (1) | 3 m (1) |
| 3 | 1'04'' 2 | 1'25'' 8 | 8'' 03 | 10'' 14 | 16'42''' | 24'04'' | 2.5 m (1) | 2.5 m (1) |
| 2 | 1'09'' 3 | 1'32'' 7 | 8'' 20 | 10''' 40 | 17'22''' | 25'19'' | 2 m (1) | 2 m (1) |
| 1 | 1'14'' 9 | 1'40'' 5 | 8'' 38 | 10''' 69 | 18'05''' | 26'42''' | 1.5 m (1) | 1.5 m (1) |
| 0 | Note awarded to any candidate who does not attend a test, does not complete it or performs a performance less than which is sanctioned by note 1. | |||||||
| (1) With the following time limitations: 9 seconds for boys and 15 seconds for girls without the 5-metre margin or hit. Note. ― In case of intermediate performance, the rating to be assigned is the one that corresponds to the immediately lower performance. | ||||||||
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CONCOURS OF ADMISSION IN THE CORPS OFFICERS OF NATIONAL GENDARMERY IMPLEMENTED TO GENDARMERY MAJORS AND GENDARMER YEARS INSCRITES TO THE ADVANCEMENT TABLE
(Art. 8 [1°] of the Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008)
I. - Nature, form and programme
written proof of eligibility
Eligibility tests include writing:
a general culture duty (duration: 4 hours); 30 coefficient);
– a duty of professional knowledge (duration: 3 hours; coefficient 20).
1.1. General culture test
This test is intended to highlight, in addition to the knowledge and personal ideas of the candidates, their general qualities of style, clarity of mind, judgment and method.
It consists of drafting, with or without the help of documentation, a duty on a matter of general interest or news.
The subjects relate to ideas or facts that are essential to the understanding of the modern world.
1.2. Proof of professional knowledge
This test is to assess the candidate's knowledge of the service, organization and administration of the gendarmerie, and to determine the candidate's ability to formulate synthetic, clear and objective answers on cross-cutting professional issues requiring the inclusion of directives from several texts.
The test covers five questions that call answers that do not exceed half a page.
II. - Nature, form and program
Oral Intake Test
The admission test consists of an oral interview with a jury (duration: 30 minutes); coefficient: 50).
2.1. This 30-minute interview is divided into a presentation, followed by an exchange with the jury:
2.1.1. Briefing
(duration: 10 minutes/preparation: 20 minutes)
It is a question of presenting a topic drawn by lot on one of the texts referring to the themes listed below.
The list of texts is broadcast annually.
After the presentation of the main topic drawn by lot and prepared for 20 minutes, candidates can also be interviewed on several other topics related to the themes listed below so that their overall knowledge is objectively evaluated:
The constitutional, legal and regulatory framework
instructing the action of the gendarmerie
The principles of public freedoms: freedom to go and come, respect for privacy, freedom of assembly.
The legislative principles governing computer science and freedom.
Public order legislation and regulations.
Relief plans provisions.
Institutional and community partners of the gendarmerie
State institutions disconcerned.
Decentralised local authorities (regional councils, general councils, communities of communes).
The role of mayors in public safety and order.
Territorial security and cooperation mechanisms for crime prevention and control.
The independent administrative authorities: the High Authority to Combat Discrimination and Equality, the National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms.
Key issues of internal security
Organized crime and networks.
Irregular immigration.
The work is concealed.
Terrorism.
2.1.2. Exchange with jury (duration: 20 minutes/without preparation)
Its objective is to assess the candidate's ability to integrate the ethical and behavioural requirements of an officer's state, to determine his motivation, level of experience, culture and openness, as well as his ability to occupy the jobs that may be entrusted to him.
For this exchange, the president of the jury has, as an indication, the candidate's file.
2.2. Endnote
Any rating equal to or less than 6/20 obtained from this test shall be eliminated.
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CONCOURS ON OVERVIEW OF CAPITAINES OR OFFICERS OF GRADE CORRESPONDANT ISSUS OF THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMES OF THE TERRITORY, OFFICERS OF MARINE OR OFFICIALS OF THE MARINE OR OFFICIALS OF THE OFFICERS OF THE AIR, OFFICERS OF THE OFFICE
(2° of Article 8 of Decree No. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008)
I. - Nature, form and program of the eligibility test
The eligibility test consists of a single written test: a general culture test (duration: 4 hours); coefficient 20).
This test is intended to highlight, in addition to the knowledge and personal ideas of the candidates, their general qualities of style, clarity of mind, judgment and method.
It consists of drafting, with or without the help of documentation, a duty on a matter of general interest or news.
The subjects relate to ideas or facts that are essential to the understanding of the modern world.
II. - Nature, form and programs of admission tests
Admission tests include:
― an oral general fitness test (duration: 45 minutes; 20 coefficient);
- sporting events whose average grades are affected by coefficient 10;
- a swimming test;
- a speed race test;
– a half-ground race test;
– a rope climbing test.
2.1. Nature, form and program of the oral test
General aptitude test
This trial aims to highlight the suitability of the candidate in the state of gendarmerie with regard to his personality and motivation, as well as his general culture, his faculties of expression and reasoning, his vivacity of mind and his emotional balance.
It includes:
― an individual interview, conducted by a psychologist, to inform the president of the jury on the suitability of the candidate for employment. This interview requires no specific preparation and includes written tests and oral interview;
an individual interview with the president and the vice-president of the jury. It begins with a 15 to 20-minute presentation on a general theme related to ideas or facts that are necessary for understanding the modern world. He continues in the form of a dialogue with the jury.
After drawing the subject of the initial presentation, the candidate has a preparation time of 20 minutes.
For this interview, the president of the jury has, as an indication, the candidate's file.
2.2. Nature, form, scale of sporting events
2.2.1. Swimming test
It is about swimming in free style, in swimming pool, a distance of 50 meters with or without turns. The candidate may, at his or her choice, plunge, jump or be already in the water in contact with the wall at the time the departure is given.
The candidates are in a bathing suit. The only authorized equipment is: bath cap, swimming glasses, pinch and ear caps.
Competitors are divided by groups of numerical importance as similar as possible and numbered to five swimmers.
2.2.2. Half ground racing test
This is a 3000-metre race, carried out on an athletics track, starting online. Candidates are in sportswear and footwear are allowed. Candidates perform this test by groups of numerical importance as similar as possible and number less than or equal to fifteen.
2.2.3. Speed racing test
This is a 50-metre race, carried out on a track and in a corridor, the departure can be made using starting-blocks.
Candidates are in sportswear and footwear are allowed.
The candidates perform this test by groups of digital importance as similar as possible.
2.2.4. Proof of rope climbing
This is to climb to the smooth rope in free style and in limited time only once a rope of 5 meters measured from the ground.
The departure is on one foot standing at the initiative of the candidate. The chronometer is triggered when the candidate's second foot leaves the ground. The chronometer is stopped when the candidate touches the 5-metre mark. If the time is 9 seconds for boys and 15 seconds for girls without the 5-metre mark being affected, the candidate is arrested and the height is taken into account according to the given scale.
The rope is marked every 50 centimeters, from 1.5 meters to 6 meters.
2.2.5. Sports competitions
| NOTES | NATATION 50 M | COURSE 50 M | COURSE 3,000 M | CORDE 5 M | ||||
| H | F | H | F | H | F | H | F | |
| 20 | 0' 29'' 6 | 0' 36'' 2 | 6'' 47 | 7'' 61 | 10' 29''' | 12' 58''' | 4'' 05 | 5' 99 |
| 19 | 0' 30'' 2 | 0' 37'' 2 | 6''' 51 | 7'' 69 | 10' 41'' | 13' 16''' | 4'' 16 | 6''' 49 |
| 18 | 0' 30'' 8 | 0' 38'' 4 | 6''' 56 | 7'' 77 | 10' 53''' | 13' 37''' | 4'' 27 | 7'' 04 |
| 17 | 0' 31''' 6 | 0' 39'' 7 | 6'' 61 | 7'' '86 | 11' 06''' | 13' 59''' | 4'' 41 | 7'' 63 |
| 16 | 0' 32'' 3 | 0' 41'' 1 | 6'' 65 | 7'' '96 | 11' 21'' | 14' 23'' | 4'' 56 | 8'' 28 |
| 15 | 0' 33'' 1 | 0' 42'' 7 | 6''' 70 | 8' 07 | 11' 36'' | 14' 49''' | 4'' 73 | 8'' 97 |
| 14 | 0' 35''' 1 | 0' 44''' 5 | 6'' 82 | 8'' 18 | 11' 53'' | 15' 17''' | 4'' 93 | 9'' 73 |
| 13 | 0' 36'' 5 | 0' 46''' 5 | 6'' '89 | 8'' 31 | 12' 10''' | 15' 48''' | 5''' 16 | 10''' 55 |
| 12 | 0' 38'' 0 | 0' 48'' 8 | 6'' 97 | 8' 44''' | 12' 29''' | 16' 21'' | 5''' 43 | 11'' 44 |
| 11 | 0' 39'' 7 | 0' 51'' 3 | 7'' 06 | 8'' 58 | 12' 50''' | 16' 58''' | 5'' 75 | 12'' 40 |
| 10 | 0' 41'' 7 | 0' 54'' 1 | 7'' 15 | 8'' 73 | 13' 12''' | 17' 37'''' | 6'' 13 | 13'' 08 |
| 9 | 0' 43'' 9 | 0' 57''' 2 | 7''' 25 | 8'' 89 | 13' 36''' | 18' 19'' | 6'' 60 | 13''' 36 |
| 8 | 0' 46''' 4 | 1 00'' 8 | 7''' 36 | 9'' 06 | 14' 02''' | 19' 06''' | 7'' 19 | 14'' 04 |
| 7 | 0' 49''' 1 | 1' 04'' 7 | 7'' 47 | 9''' 25 | 14' 29''' | 19' 56''' | 7'' 95 | 14''' 32 |
| 6 | 0' 52'' 3 | 1' 09'' 1 | 7'' 60 | 9'' 45 | 14' 59''' | 20' 51'' | 9'' | 15' 00 |
| 5 | 0' 56'' 0 | 1' 14'' 0 | 7'' 70 | 9'' 70 | 15' 30''' | 21' 40''' | 3.5 m (1) | 3.5 m (1) |
| 4 | 0' 59'' 8 | 1' 19'' 6 | 7''' 88 | 9'' 89 | 16' 05''' | 22' 54''' | 3 m (1) | 3 m (1) |
| 3 | 1' 04'' 2 | 1' 25'' 8 | 8'' 03 | 10'' 14 | 16' 42''' | 24' 04''' | 2.5 m (1) | 2.5 m (1) |
| 2 | 1' 09''' 3 | 1' 32'' 7 | 8'' 20 | 10''' 40 | 17' 22''' | 25' 19''' | 2 m (1) | 2 m (1) |
| 1 | 1' 14'' 9 | 1'40'' 5 | 8'' 38 | 10''' 69 | 18' 05''' | 26' 42''' | 1.5 m (1) | 1.5 m (1) |
| 0 | Note awarded to any candidate who does not attend a test, does not complete it or performs a performance less than which is sanctioned by note 1. | |||||||
| (1) With the following time limitations: 9 seconds for boys and 15 seconds for girls without the 5-metre margin or hit. Note. ― In case of intermediate performance, the rating to be assigned is the one that corresponds to the immediately lower performance. | ||||||||
Done in Paris, November 28, 2008.
For the Minister and by delegation:
The Director of Human Resources
Ministry of Defence,
J. Roudière
