ROME. It will still be a maturity exam under the banner of Covid, but “it will not be a series B exam”. Word of the Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi, who underlines to Repubblica.it how the boys have “faced a very hard test, they are showing great maturity, they will remember it in a positive way”. One out of three of the 540,000 graduates arrives at the appointment after having celebrated the legendary night before the exams (data from Skuola.net), albeit in full compliance with the current times. For the second consecutive year, there will be no written tests and the exam will consist of a mega oral interview of one hour that will start from the discussion of the paper. A job assigned by the professors on the basis of the path carried out and the disciplines characterizing the course of study, which can also be integrated with contributions from other disciplines. For example, there will be Latin language and culture and Greek language and culture for the classical high school, mathematics and physics for the scientific high school, foreign language and culture for the linguistic high school. The interview will continue with the discussion of a text already being studied in the teaching of Italian language and literature, with the analysis of materials prepared by the commission with discussion of conceptual issues characterizing the various disciplines. There will be space for the exposure of the experience carried out in the Pcto (Pathways for transversal skills and orientation).
Most of the students involved come from high schools, 255,899 against 196,354 from technical institutes and 96,908 from professionals. Boys and girls were able to prepare for the big day with materials made available by the ministry online and on TV, in collaboration with Rai, but also with podcasts on Spotify. Over 750 thousand contacts were reached with the #MiRisponde column on Instagram, created to answer questions about exams. The examining commissions will be composed of six internal and one external professors. During the interview, the commission will take into account the so-called student curriculum, a document that presents the extracurricular activities carried out by the graduates (music, sport, volunteering, culture). «It was introduced to understand how much you have enriched in your path: there is no one who can imagine that those who have spent 5 thousand euros to go to London are rewarded and not those who have volunteered in the parish. It is not used to score but it is used by the boy to present himself »confirms Bianchi. The maximum score that high school students can obtain is 100/100 and, for the best, honors. Most of the credits are the result of the three years of each student (60). While the oral interview can have a maximum evaluation of 40 points, to which a bonus of 5 points can be added.
The Minister of Education assures that the school will be back in attendance from September, but Dad will not be archived either. As for the future, he warns: it is necessary to find new formats because we are still moving in «that of the last century» and «we are in a phase of anthropological transformation». And even if early school leaving has increased, the minister reiterates that “Covid has exacerbated the problems that already existed. Before the health emergency, dispersion was higher than the European average, ”he recalls.