A 72-page guide with all the new features of Maturità 2026

If not a real reform, what awaits the 500,000 'maturity' school-leavers in 2026 is certainly a profound restyling of the State examination. One of the tasks of the light commissions established by decree Dl 127/2025 - and made up of five members, two of whom are internal and two external, such as the chairman, instead of seven as was the case until last year, ed. Without limiting themselves, therefore, to verifying in the course of the interview the simple preparation on the subjects to be examined, which - and this is another of the upcoming changes - will be limited to the four subjects for each address identified by MIM with the ministerial decree of the end of January, which also decided the subjects of the second written test.

It is precisely the oral is where the most impactful changes are concentrated. And also the most politically relevant ones. We are talking, for example, about the 'mute scene' ban wanted by Minister Giuseppe Valditara to avoid a repetition of the script that was staged last summer. When, in a dozen or so cases scattered throughout Italia, some graduating students refused to answer the commissioners' questions because they had already reached the minimum mark (which was and remains 60/ 100) between the written exam grade and the school credit. This will no longer be possible: to be valid, the examination must be taken in all its components. On pain of flunking.

An entire chapter of the Guida alla Maturità 2026, which will be on newsstands on Wednesday 3 June with Il Sole 24 Ore, is dedicated to the news of the oral exam and which also aims to cast an eye over post-diploma choices. Starting with university enrolment for those who want to continue their studies or the Its Academy to work earlier. After all, more than one in three students continue to make a definitive choice only after graduation. And so it is a good idea to get there informed.