Overview
- The national exams start Thursday, June 18 with the common Italian written test at 8:30, followed by the second, discipline-specific test on June 19, and orals no sooner than two days after the written exams.
- A total of 527,607 candidates are registered this year, split between 513,479 internal and 14,128 external candidates, served by 13,989 commissions covering 27,884 classes.
- The new Maturità model evaluates knowledge plus personal maturity and autonomy and explicitly weights school‑work training, digital skills, civic education and items recorded in each student’s formal curriculum.
- The oral exam is now mandatory and begins with a student’s personal reflection supported by the curriculum, continues with questioning on four fixed subjects set by the ministry, includes presentation of school‑work experiences, and closes with civic‑education discussion; failure to actively participate will result in failing the exam.
- Operational rules aim for uniformity and fairness with the first written offering seven tracce and six hours to complete while the second test is tailored by study track, and media attention is focused on celebrity candidates such as Blanco who are taking the exam alongside ordinary students.