The Central Matura ends on Thursday with the Italian exams. For the high school graduates, however, this does not mean the end of this year’s matriculation examination season.
In two and a half weeks, the oral maturity exams, which are staggered depending on the school, will begin. In addition, those students who are on a five after the written Matura can improve it on May 31 or June 1 in a compensatory exam.
Technically, these compensatory exams are part of the written Matura (although they are oral). Anyone who has a negative grade after the written Matura, even after including the annual grade, is allowed to take part – i.e. either a four in the annual report and a five on the exam or who missed the threshold of 30 percent of the points in the exam.
Oral exams will start soon
The oral matriculation examinations are also on the program from the end of May or the beginning of June. According to the law, there must be at least two weeks between the last written exam and the start of the oral exam – unlike the Central Matura or the compensation exam, there is no uniform date for the oral Matura throughout Austria. Depending on the school, it is staggered until just before the end of the school year.
All students are allowed to take part, regardless of the result of the written Matura or the compensatory examination. Here, too, the grade of the annual report is included in the grade for the Matura – the prerequisite for this is not a certain number of points, as is the case with the exam, but only active participation in the oral exam. Teacher representatives saw this recently critical. In contrast to the written Matura and the compensation test, the questions for the oral Matura are not specified centrally, but are worked out by the respective class teacher (based on the subject areas specified by the respective subject teachers of the school).
