At the end of secondary school, most of the wishes of students for orientation towards French higher education are the subject of judgements of teachers and headteachers.What are students thinking about these judgements which are decisive for their orientation? At the time of discovering these judgements, on the “sheet for future”, what meanings do pupils give to these judgements and how do they interpret them? Twenty-five pupils in their final year of technological education in three French secondary schools were confronted with their “sheet for future”, during individual interviews. It appears that the pupils are not familiar with the content of this sheet and the criteria it evaluates. They comment on it from the angle of their lack of understanding of the criteria, the lack of credit they give it, their feeling of being unfairly overvalued, and their disappointment. This is to be seen in parallel with a lack of knowledge of the workings of selection in higher education.