State Examination 2025: Cicero at the Classical, Descartes at the Scientific - Analysis of the address tests

According to initial rumours, the mathematics track for the scientific high school focuses on two problems that both begin with a quotation. The first starts with Descartes' sentence: 'Reason is nothing without imagination'. The second starts with a sentence attributed to Plato: "Beauty is mixing, in right proportions, the finite and the infinite". This is followed by the classic function study. The mingling of humanistic and logical-mathematical culture also continues in the questions, where there are several references to the first world that serve as the starting point for questions from the second: from Boccioni's futurist work also featured on the 20 cent coin to a text by Cicero that refers to the predictions of soothsayers (and therefore to probabilistic calculus), passing through the riddle anagrams of the word "study". Finally, a closing with a quote from the mathematician David Hilbert that requires no exercise, a sort of signature and programmatic manifesto of the track: 'Mathematics knows no races or geographical boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is a single nation'.

At the technical institute Itia address Informatics and Telecommunications, articulation Informatics, the test - of Informatics - according to the first rumours, focuses on a practical case related to the development of a web platform to counter fake news, through the labelling of a dataset to train an artificial intelligence model to classify news on the web.

At the artistic high school, the test for audiovisual and multimedia disciplines focuses on the theme of 'care'. The reference text is the famous song by Franco Battiato, who died in 2021.

One of the proposed tracks for the Liceo Linguistico English exam asks the student to develop a paper on the subject of fast fashion and its impact on public health and the environment, starting from an in-depth article published on the Boston University website. Another track, on the other hand, focuses on an excerpt from the novel "Every Day is Mother's Day" by the English author Hilary Mantel, in which the author's experience as a social worker in a geriatric hospital, with the stories of patients and in which the theme of "loss" is central.