Hugs and emotion, and the song that rises towards the sky. Last night the students of the Parini classical high school met, as per tradition, in the school courtyard to sing “Night before exams”. Rites and last hours of revision, alone or with friends for all the graduates who, this morning, will be in the classroom at 8.30, when the bell rings the start of the first final exam. The whole topic is going crazy on the web and yesterday the Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditarain an interview with Skuola.net he launched a small spoiler. The theme tracks? «Graduate students will find them interesting», said the minister, inviting the students to «Don’t waste time looking for them on the Internet. They were chosen in March” (therefore subsequent events are excluded from the current topic). The traces of the second test? “They won’t (be) particularly difficult, they won’t disturb the average student.” The oral? «It will not be notional, I hope that it will take place in a very dialogical and serene way, in fact it is the recommendation that we also gave to the commissioners», concluded Valditara, who said that he graduated with 56/60 from classical high school.
Almost a thousand more high school graduates than last year will take the state exam in Lombardy. The wave of demographic decline, already significant in primary schools, even causing the merging of some schools, is not yet felt in high school. There are 79,960 people admitted to the exams, last year there were 75,988. Those not admitted were only 3.3% and they were mainly young people who had stopped attending lessons. The majority of high school graduates, i.e. 74,314, will take the tests in their own school, while private students who present themselves externally are 2,643. There are 8,260 candidates in the equal elections.
In Milan the exam brings 24,800 kids to class, three hundred more than last year. Among them there are also two early adopters, who access the exam a year early due to merit (6 in the whole region). There are 1,029 students presenting as external candidates. Judging the tests in Lombardy will be 1,803 commissions appointed by the Regional School Office for state schools and 266 for private ones. Appointments that required a lot of work especially in some provinces, such as Pavia and Bergamo, where there had been dozens of defections. The role of president can only be held by other school managers, that of commissioners by teachers, even those retired (for a maximum of 3 years) or by university professors. Tomorrow we return to the classroom for the second test: Greek to classical, mathematics to scientific and so on. In professional studies, the outline of the second test is different from institute to institute, as it is drawn up by the specialization professors, as required by the reform that came into force last year.
