The New Finishing Exams

Authors: Valeria Bussolotti, Ilaria Lorenzoni.

A few months ago the Minister of Education changed the final school exams. In past years students would prepare a topic and then discuss it in front of the commission. The exam commission could ask questions on any topic. There were three written tests: Italian, Business Administration and one general test on all subjects called the “Quizzone”. Now there are only two written tests: Italian is the first, and a different subject for every type of school is the second. For us at ITE the second test is on Business Administration. During the oral examination the students must talk about the internship that they have done and they must also choose one of three envelopes in which there are different topics that the students may not know. Normally the exams last fifteen days and include both the written and the oral exams. For these changes we are very anxious and really worried. The topics could include anything that we have studied this year, so we think that it’s physically impossible! We think that being examined on all subjects is really difficult; despite this we will work hard to do our best on the exam.