Third Media Exams, in Sicily we start on Wednesday (and in presence)

At the end of the lessons in Emilia Romagna, Marche, Veneto and Molise, the eighth grade exams for about 570 thousand students start tomorrow, and this year, unlike last year, they will be in attendance. For 1 in 4 the tests will start immediately after the end of the lessons but the wait will be short enough for almost everyone, given that for another 55% the exams will start from the following week (i.e. from June 14 onwards) and only 1 in 5 will have to wait for the second part of the month.

Tuesday 8, in fact, will be the turn of the last bell in Lazio and Valle d’Aosta; on the 9th in Sicily, Liguria and Umbria; the 10th in Tuscany, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Abruzzo; the day after the school will end in Basilicata, Piedmont and Puglia; on the 12th in Sardinia, Campania and Calabria; the last will be Bolzano on June 16th.

To avoid gatherings outside the institutes on the last day of school, many principals have already issued circulars with which they stagger the outputs of the children, spacing them at least an hour from each other. Due to the pandemic, a traditional eighth grade exam will not be set up but everything will be contained in a work previously done by the students and illustrated to the commission.

The eighth grade exam will take place in the period between the end of the lessons and June 30, 2021. It includes an oral test starting from the discussion of a paper on a topic that has been assigned to each pupil and each pupil by the Class Council by 7 May. The paper was then sent by the pupils to the class council.
The paper consists of an original product, consistent with the theme assigned by the class council. It can be made in the form of written text, multimedia presentation, film, artistic or technical-practical production. It involves one or more disciplines among those included in the study plan. During the oral exam the levels of mastery of the Italian language, of logic and mathematical skills, of foreign language skills and of skills in Civic Education will be assessed. The final evaluation will be expressed in tenths. It will be possible to get praise.
Admission to the exam is decided by the class council. With reference to the need to have attended at least three quarters of the personalized annual number of hours, exceptions may be made by the Council itself, taking into account the specific situations due to the epidemiological emergency. In the case of partial or failure to acquire the learning levels in one or more disciplines, the Class Council may decide, with adequate motivation, the non-admission to the exam.