This article describes how two jurors’ activity is articulated with the activity of candidates having participated in three interview simulations inspired by the oral part of the physical education test in the competitive examination to become a primary school teacher. The inter-individual dynamics is analysed with respect to the semiologic approach of the course of action; in accordance with the presuppositions of situated cognitive anthropology, activity is regarded as a series of actions strongly linked to the context, in this particular case a context of evaluation and competition preparation. The collection of convergences and divergences in candidates’ and jurors’ preoccupations shows that the norms related to professional culture prevail over those written in the ministerial decree that defines the test.