Corona Matura
The changed form of the Austrian school leaving examination in 2020 was called the Corona Matura . This became necessary due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting school closings .
In order to be able to compensate for the lack of face-to-face teaching, the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research - or Education Minister Heinz Faßmann - announced and implemented various easements. Above all, this includes measures in the two pillars of the written and oral Matura.
course
With the announcement of the first school closings on March 11th, Education Minister Faßmann announced to Armin Wolf in ZiB 2 that the Matura would be postponed in the current school year: "It's clear where we are going. The dates will be extended and the Matura a bit moved backwards. " On March 17th, a more precise statement was made, the written school leaving examination should be postponed for at least two weeks - from May 5th to May 18th. In addition, it was made clear on 23 March that the high-school graduates - in preparation for the exams - should have the option of at least two weeks of face-to-face teaching at the schools; In addition, the order of the written examinations has been shifted, with the "correction-intensive" subject German being put first. In addition, only "essential" schoolwork should take place.
On March 25, federal school spokeswoman Jennifer Uzodike , member of the federal board of the ÖVP -near pupil union , announced that she would insist on holding the Matura, because "we don't want to be the year that is said to have received the Matura as a gift ". This gave them into an OTS - sending known.
The measures relating to the exact process of the final examination were announced by Faßmann at a press conference on April 8th . This included a further postponement of the first exam day to May 25th and the elimination of the oral Matura. This could be taken on a voluntary basis, otherwise the final grade in the respective subject was entered in the Matura certificate . In addition, the presentations of the pre-scientific work at the schools where these had not yet been held were omitted ; the grading was only based on the written work. The presentations should only be carried out if a negative assessment was threatened.
Another relief was the written Matura. This was only to be filed in three subjects; the students, who had originally chosen four subjects, got their final grade entered in their high school diploma. In addition, the grade of the written exam only counted to 50%, the other half resulted from the annual grade. If the assessment was then unclear, the exam grade "stood out" than the annual grade.
Time schedule
| Preparation and end of school | |
|---|---|
| until April 24th | Announcement of the performance level of the students |
| until May 4th | Selection of examination areas by the student |
| until May 14th | necessary schoolwork and assessment tests |
| until May 20th | Grading conference / assessment of the final theses |
| 4th - 22nd May | Complementary classes in schools |
| Written exam dates | |
| 25. May | non-standardized written exams |
| May 26 | German |
| May 27th | English |
| 28th of May | (Applied Mathematics |
| May 29th | French |
| Latin | |
| Greek | |
| 3rd of June | Spanish |
| Croatian | |
| Hungarian | |
| Italian | |
| June 4th | Slovenian |
| Compensation tests | |
| June 22 | oral, non-standardized compensatory exams |
| 23–24 June | oral, standardized compensation tests |
| additional | |
| May 29th - June 29th | Oral examination period
Presentation of final work in the event of a threatened negative assessment |
| until June 30th | Handover of annual and school-leaving certificate |
These data were published in a graphic by the Vorarlberger Nachrichten on April 23 , after the exact legal basis had been published in the Federal Law Gazette : preparation and implementation of final exams for the 2019/20 school year
Web links
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) portal page of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research - including:
- Legal basis, published in the Federal Law Gazette : BGBl. II No. 167/2020 , last amended by BGBl. II No. 198/2020
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Austria Press Agency : The Corona Matura - all questions and answers. In: The press . May 22, 2020, accessed May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Austria Press Agency : Faßmann leaves postponement of the central school-leaving exam open. In: Wiener Zeitung . March 11, 2020, accessed May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Austria Press Agency : Matura postponed by at least two weeks. In: ORF News . March 17, 2020, accessed May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Austria Press Agency : From May 18th: Central Matura starts with a “lead time”. In: ORF News . March 23, 2020, accessed May 23, 2020 .
- ^ Daniel Thomas Bayer: Student Union: No Matura is by no means a solution. In: APA Original Text Service . March 25, 2020, accessed May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Lisa Nimmervoll: In the Corona year, high school graduates are waived the oral examination. In: The Standard . April 7, 2020, accessed May 23, 2020 .
- ^ Marian Smetana: Education Minister Heinz Faßmann: "This year slimmed down Matura". In: Salzburger Nachrichten . April 8, 2020, accessed May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Austria Press Agency : Matura: Examination "trumps" certificate grade. In: ORF News . April 22, 2020, accessed May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Birgit Entner-Gerhold: The Matura grade will not be the grade of the written Matura for everyone. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten . April 23, 2020, accessed May 23, 2020 .