The final exams for 12,378 Sardinian and 524,415 Italian students began this morning with the Italian test. Sardinia is the Italian region with the highest percentage of students not admitted: 7.1%, compared to an Italian average of 3.5%.
The first written test in Italian is common to all study paths. The topics are developed by the Ministry of Education and are seven in total, divided into three different types: 2 text analysis, 3 argumentative text topics and 2 current affairs topics .
THE TRACKS
The first track of the current affairs theme - type C - recalls Judge Paolo Borsellino through a text entitled "I giovani, la mia speranza" , published in Epoca in October 1992, and reflects on the importance of the culture of legality brought to young people as a long-term deterrent to the proliferation of mafia culture.
The second track of the current affairs theme - type C - is on social media platforms, in particular on the fact that they are full of content designed to trigger the feeling of indignation and that, precisely because of this, they end up saturating our capacity to be indignant . The proposed text is by Anna Meldolesi and Chiara Lalli - "Indignation is the engine of the social world. But is it useful for anything?" - published in 7-Sette, a weekly supplement of the 'Corriere della Sera'. The high school graduates are invited, drawing on their experiences, knowledge and readings, to reflect on this characteristic of social media, also by dividing the paper into paragraphs and then presenting it with an overall title that synthetically expresses its content.
The first track of typology B - argumentative text - is a text taken from the work of the author Piers Brendon entitled "The thirties. The decade that shook the world" in which he talks about the New Deal, the 'recipe' of the American president Roosevelt after the great crisis of '29.
The second track of Type B - argumentative text - is on the topic of "Respect" and focuses on an article by the journalist of "Avvenire", Riccardo Maccioni, indicated by his article as the word of the year according to Treccani and published on December 17, 2024 on the newspaper's website. A topic, that of respect, which is very close to the heart of the Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara, as also some of the ministerial provisions of recent years have demonstrated.
