Beyond language skills The fundamental aim of an OISE Prepa course is to equip students with the necessary codes and methods to anticipate the expectations of the examiners. The entrance exams are not a linguistic test: they are designed to assess how the candidate’s intellectual abilities translate into Spanish.

The courses are staffed by a group of specialised teachers, recruited for their teaching skills, experience, enthusiasm and knowledge of the examiners’ expectations. Teachers who offer an objective linguistic and cultural perspective, nurturing the student’s critical spirit while working to optimise impactful discourse.

For over 50 years, OISE has been constantly innovating to help its students succeed. The pedagogical management of OISE schools determines, for each student, the pedagogical formula best suited to his or her profile, which may take the form of teaching modules in groups of a maximum of 4 people at a rate of 30 hours per week, an individual course of 15 hours per week, or a combination of the two.

The Prépa OISE course is designed for ambitious students who wish to master the complexity of the tests and gain the confidence and confidence to take the competitive entrance exams in Spanish. The Prépa OISE programmes are designed for Terminale students planning to enter the Prépa and for 1st or 2nd year Prépa students.

The Prépa OISE course provides the knowledge and mindset needed to succeed in the competitive entrance exams to the Grandes Ecoles, encourages you to assess your potential, to discover how to go further in your quest for excellence, to gain enough self-confidence to excel, to approach the tests with confidence and to be prepared for the entrance exams.
Thanks to OISE’s pedagogical approach and ongoing dialogue with experts in France, teachers are fully aware of the content of the tests and the requirements of the Grandes Écoles jury, whatever the exam.

The programmes, which are renewed each year, are in line with the exams and are based entirely on what the jury expects of candidates: intensive training in text commentary, both oral and written, to develop the ability to extract the essential points from a text and to stimulate reflection on the topics covered. Intensive training in listening to and analysing recorded texts in order to quickly grasp the key points methodical preparation of argumentation, taking into account both the revision of form and reinforcement content and the development of grammatical, lexical and syntactic skills to avoid gaps, avoid pitfalls and excel in expression (the jury expects great precision in the use of grammatical and syntactical expressions) training in translation (version and/or subject), cross-correction, comparative analytical summary, depending on the chosen section, in different language fields: economic, literary, political, journalistic and everyday language.