Maturity 2025, here are the tracks of the second written test

At 8:30 the second written test of the final exam began, concerning the subjects characterizing the individual study paths: Latin at the Classical High School; Mathematics at the Scientific High School; Foreign Language and Culture 1 at the Linguistic High School; English for the Technical Institutes of the Economic Sector, "Tourism" major; Geopedology, Economics and Appraisal for the "Construction, Environment and Territory" major. The duration varies depending on the major. There are 524,415 students called to take the state exams this year (511,349 internal candidates and 13,066 external).

It is an excerpt from a dialogue by Cicero, Laelius de amicitia, the text proposed to classical high schools on the day of the second written test of the Maturity exam. In the dialogue, composed in 44 BC but set in 129 BC, Cicero describes with heartfelt accents the friendship between two leading figures of the Roman political class of the time, Gaius Laelius and Scipio Emilianus, who had recently passed away. In addition to the translation, the graduates are invited to reflect on the bond of friendship by showing understanding and interpreting it, to answer a series of questions, to make a linguistic and stylistic analysis of the text.

Cicero had been missing from the state exam since 2009 and with this proposal he becomes the most proposed Latin author in history from the post-war period to today, with 17 Maturities under his belt, ousting Seneca who is stuck at 16 and Tacitus at 5. The count is from the Skuola.net portal which, given this relative "scarcity" of alternatives, crowned him as the favorite already on the eve of the tests.

The study of a function, with a quote from Descartes 'reason is nothing without imagination' was proposed to the high school graduates at the scientific high school, on the day of the second written test which this year is mathematics. Cicero - graduated from the Classical high school - scores twice and manages the incredible feat of also entering the Mathematics test for the scientific high school. One of the eight questions that complete the track - number 7 - starts from a quote of his, taken from the work " De divinatione "

The Mathematics track for the Scientific High School focuses on two problems that both begin with a quote. The first starts with Descartes' phrase: "Reason is nothing without imagination". The second starts with a phrase attributed to Plato: "Beauty is mixing, in just proportions, the finite and the infinite". The classic study of functions follows.

In the questions of the Scientific test there are various mixtures between humanistic and logical-mathematical culture: from the futurist work of Boccioni also reported on the 20 cent coin to a text by Cicero that refers to the predictions of fortune tellers (and therefore to probabilistic calculation), passing through the anagrams from puzzles of the word 'study'. Finally a closing with a quote from the mathematician David Hilbert that does not require any type of exercise, a sort of signature and programmatic manifesto of the track: "Mathematics knows no races or geographical borders; for mathematics, the cultural world is a single nation"

At the Itia technical institute, Computer Science and Telecommunications, 'Computer Science' branch, the Computer Science test focuses on a practical case relating to the development of a web platform to combat fake news, through the labeling of a dataset that serves to train an artificial intelligence model to classify the news present on the web

At the Art High School, the test for audiovisual and multimedia subjects focuses on the theme of 'care'. The reference text is the famous song " La cura " by the singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, who passed away in 2021. The images used include works by Picasso, Diego Rivera, Elliot Erwitt and photographs by Sandro Scalia of Palermo. The meaning of Battiato's text lies in the desire to care for, to take care of the loved one: "... because you are a special being, and I will take care of you".