Maturità 2025, from school credit to tests: how the final grade is formed

The final grade in the final state examination of the second cycle consists of an assessment relating to the course of study and an assessment relating to the examination papers.

School credits are the instrument through which significance is given to the course of studies. Specifically, the class council, during the final examination, takes into consideration the final three years, awarding, at the end of each year, credits to a maximum of twelve, thirteen, fifteen respectively. Credit is awarded by taking into account the average marks obtained by the student in the individual years (third, fourth, fifth) as set out in Appendix A. The recent regulatory provision (Law 150/2024) that intervenes to amend Article 15, paragraph 2 bis, of Legislative Decree 62/2017, states that the highest mark within the band, due on the basis of the grade average, may be awarded if the behaviour mark awarded is equal to or higher than nine tenths.

The transversal skills and guidance pathways contribute to the assessment of the disciplines to which they relate, in fact contributing to the formation of the grade average and, consequently, to the award of school credit. The criteria defined by the board of teachers for the definition within the fluctuation band, once the average has been consolidated, also affect the awarding of credit. The maximum value of the course of study is forty points and constitutes the basis on which the assessments of the three examinations for which the board is responsible will be added.

There are some special cases, which follow different criteria in defining the credit: below we describe two that differ significantly from the general criterion. The reform of the so-called New Vocational Education and Training (Legislative Decree 61/2017) operates at regime for the third year. Consequently, there will be students who have attended the IeFP courses up to the third or fourth year and have, then, made the transition to vocational education permitted by the regulations in force; for such students, who do not possess the school credit for the third and/or fourth year, it will be the class council that will attribute it during admission to the state examination. The attribution of credit, in these cases, is made through the recognition of "training credits" carried out at the time of the transition between the IeFP and IP systems, taking into account any entry tests in vocational education and vocational education and training qualifications obtained.

An even different discipline is that which concerns second-level adult education pathways: these are, in fact, pathways articulated over two didactic periods, instead of three years, with a consequent different definition of the credit score. For these pathways, Article 11, paragraph 5, establishes that the class council, in the final examination, awards the school credit accrued in the second didactic period on the basis of Table A annexed to Legislative Decree 62/2017, with reference to the fourth class; a score that must then be doubled, up to a maximum of 25 points. The credit relative to the third didactic period follows what is indicated in table A for the fifth classes.