The topics for the first exam are common to all study programs and are seven in total, divided into three different types: two text analyses (one poetic and the other prose), three argumentative text topics, and two current affairs essays.
At 8:30 a.m., immediately after the electronic file containing the evidence was opened, the first certainties and rumors began to filter through . The writer Cesare Pavese and the poem "I Will Pass Through Piazza di Spagna" are among the topics offered to the high school graduates, who are asked to analyze and interpret the literary text and answer a series of questions. It's a poem about unrequited love for American actress Constance Dowling.
According to ANSA, among the proposals for the first written exam, students will be given a passage from Professor Frank Furedi's text "Borders Matter. Why Humanity Must Rediscover the Art of Drawing Sources."
The theme proposed to the final year students at the centre of one of the argumentative text topics (B1) is the Constituent Assembly , with an excerpt taken from the inaugural speech of President Giuseppe Saragat.
Vitaliano Brancati and a passage from his prose work "I piaceri" are the focus of one of the assignments. Students must understand and analyze the text, summarizing its content, commenting on it, and answering some questions. "I piaceri" by Vitaliano Brancati (1907-1954) is the diary in which the writer expressed his meditations, fantasies, nostalgia, and memories of even painful experiences.
One of the two topical themes of the first exam of the 2026 final exam revolves around the concept of "enchantment." The source is an article by journalist Wenke Husmann, "Funziona a meraviglia," which appeared in the magazine "Internazionale" in January 2026. Students are asked to make a series of considerations on the human capacity for wonder at natural phenomena.
According to what we have learned, one of the argumentative text topics (B2) starts from a passage by journalist and writer , taken from " , on scientific creativity. The student is asked to summarise the text and express his or her point of view on the topic covered, justifying and supporting his or her own considerations.
