Exam time for Polish high school seniors

High school seniors around Poland started a round of graduation exams on Thursday.

Students sit a school-leaving exam in Gorzów Wielkopolski, western Poland, on Thursday.

Photo: PAP/Lech Muszyński

The tests began at 9 a.m. with an exam in Polish, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.

The matura high school-leaving exams are a rite of passage in Poland. Photo: PAP/Lech Muszyński

Od godz. 9:00 trwa #matura2023 z języka polskiego. Ponad 270 tysięcy maturzystów z całego kraju rozpoczęło tegoroczne maturyhttps://t.co/BhtKR4XRHG

— PolskieRadio24.pl (@PR24_pl) May 4, 2023

On Friday, high school seniors will have their foreign-language skills assessed, and on Monday their knowledge of mathematics.

Photo: PAP/Lech Muszyński

Students must take exams in three compulsory subjects. Most have opted to also take additional subjects, which are required for admission to universities, according to officials.

Trwa #matura2023 z języka polskiego. Prezydent @AndrzejDuda złożył życzenia tegorocznym maturzystom https://t.co/beJRnhGPMn

— PolskieRadio24.pl (@PR24_pl) May 4, 2023

The matura exams are a rite of passage in Poland and determine young people's futures to a large extent.

They will be taken this month by more than 270,000 secondary school students nationwide, state news agency PAP reported.

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Source: IAR, PAP/PAP

Click on the audio player above to listen to a report by Radio Poland's Ada Janiszewska.