Flexible Matura rules to the killing spree: relief for pupils!

Flexible Matura rules to the killing spree: relief for pupils!

After the tragic killing spree in Graz, Education Minister Christoph Return (NEOS) has announced a flexible regulation for the Matura tests to help the students concerned. As reports Kleine Zeitung, Maturantinnen and Maturants can get a high school leaving certificate in which the annual grade of the corresponding subject is taken over as Maturanote becomes. This should reduce the pressure to take exams immediately after traumatic experiences.

In addition, the pupils can regularly take or catch up their oral exams, whereby the exams can take place in autumn both before the summer holidays and in the first secondary date. It is important that the decision to make an oral Matura does not have to be made immediately, but also an option in autumn.

changes in the examination requirements

From the coming school year there will also be changes to the requirements for the oral Matura. Around 40,000 pupils will be able to complete the oral examination under the current, pandemeine-related regulations, as my district. These regulations stipulate that the annual grade is incorporated into the overall rating, but Minister of Education is planning a rejection of these requirements.

from 2025/26 The existing "50-50-30" regulation is extended to the oral Matura. This means that in addition to the annual grade, a minimum output of 30 percent must also be provided in the exams. The aim of these adjustments is a fairer assessment that takes into account the continuous performance of the students and their examination competence.

criticism and challenges

The teacher union has already made concerns that the current regulations could be misused, which undermines the comparability of the degrees. The "50-50-30" regulation will be applied from February. Critics fear that these new requirements could increase the stress for students, especially in subjects such as mathematics.

The principles behind these reforms are the need to analyze structural and school organizational changes in the education system, as is also addressed in the context of the [Dipf] (https://www.dipf.de/de/institut/arbeitsge-s-servkeiche/bildstructure-und reforms). Here the importance of investigating educational processes and the identification of inequalities in the educational success is emphasized.

Overall, it remains to be seen how pupils and teachers will react to the upcoming changes and what effects they have on the existing education system.