Sub-paragraph 1: Common section

Candidates for the examination for the common part of the third-degree state diploma in sports education must pass tests relating to the knowledge programme set out in annex II-8 to this code. This examination comprises :
A. - The defence of a dissertation relating to research into an aspect of a sporting discipline, with particular reference to the biological sciences or the humanities (duration: one hour; coefficient 4).
The subject of the dissertation must be submitted by the candidate to the Minister for Sport for approval.
Eight copies must be sent to the secretariat of the examination venue at least two months before the date set for the defence.
The document must be at least forty typewritten pages long (21 × 29.7 page format, recto only).
B. - A modern foreign language test (coefficient 1) chosen from English, German, Spanish or Italian, comprising:
- translation into French of a text of no more than twenty typewritten lines (21 × 29.7 page format) (preparation time: one hour maximum). Candidates are judged on both the relevance of their translation and their understanding of the text;
- an interview with the jury (duration: thirty minutes maximum). The candidate must demonstrate a spoken knowledge of the foreign language in question from the point of view of both comprehension and expression.
The interview may refer to the text of the translation or may be extended to general problems of sport.
C. - One test to be chosen from (coefficient 1):
- a language test designed to check the candidate's knowledge of a modern foreign language other than the one chosen in test B, from among the following languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian. The candidate must present the jury with a selection of texts on sport (magazines, newspapers, press articles, extracts from articles or other publications), all of which must be between ten and fifteen pages in size 21 × 29.7.
During this test, the candidate prepares a written commentary of around twenty lines on a text chosen by the jury from among the texts presented. This work serves as an introduction to a dialogue between the candidate and the jury (preparation: forty minutes maximum; interview: thirty minutes maximum);
- a practical IT test involving the design of a database or a programme as a tool for analysing physical and sporting activities (using known software) (marked out of 20; preparation: one hour maximum; duration: one hour);
- a management test involving the management of a federation or public finance. The candidate presents a file of no more than fifteen pages given at the time of registration relating to a concrete situation which serves as a starting point for the interview (marked out of 20; duration: thirty minutes maximum).