Around half a million pupils in Italy
started their high-school final exams with a written test for
Italian on Wednesday.
The students have to write an essay or analyse a text on the
basis of the choice of seven options.
It is the first time high-school leavers are doing written exams
after two years of orals due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The obligation to wear facemasks has been dropped, although they
are recommended.
The exam started at 8:30 across the nation and pupils can take
up to six hours to complete it.
The seven options included the analysis of a poem by Giovanni
Pascoli, a work written by Life Senator and Holocaust survivor
Liliana Segre with former magistrate Gherardo Colombo, a speech
given by Italian Nobel-prize-winning physicist Giorgio Parisi,
and the subject of 'hyperconnectivity'.
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