All you need to know about the Hungarian maturity

On May 5, Hungarian language and literature will start with a written graduation, as last year, placing greater emphasis to the students’ material knowledge. In the first part of the exam, the practical task was replaced with a literacy test, while in the second, instead of comparative analysis, a topic essay was optional as an optional option. The changes will remain this year, so the written Hungarian maturity will be as follows:

Intermediate level:

• First round a 40 -point comprehension task and a 20 point literary and grammar quiz Waiting for candidates for a total of 90 minutes.
• The second part is a 40 -point interpretation or an essay of a topic You can choose between what they have to write in 150 minutes.

Last year, a new literary and grammatical task, which measures the student’s knowledge, consists of different types of issues. The Office of Education issued for this in 2024 a guide toaccording to which the tasks to be solved are organized around 4-6 questions or task groups, recognizing age styles, style features, style types, artificial, genre knowledge (recognition), compulsory memorities, artistic knowledge, and tools for literary text. On the worksheet, the examiners meet the following tasks:

• Fill in tables,
• True-to-be
• setting order,
• pairing,
• Text supplement,
• to identify concepts,
• Recognition and complement of memorities.

Raised level:

• The first part of the exam is a 40 -point literacy and linguistic literary literature contains, which can be associated with a literary or linguistic talk, essay, or a lyrical work, a prose work, or a drama, or their details. Students have 90 minutes to do so.
• In the second part they get a line of text 40+20 points: a interpretive text and a reflective text They have to write in 150 minutes. In the interpretive text, a literary work must be analyzed, interpreted and evaluated, or compared two literary works, while in the reflective text a reasonable or opinion essay should be formulated for a particular literary, cultural, aesthetic, philosophical, ethical question and phenomenon.

It is good to know that severe spelling errors and disorganized spelling can lead to point deduction at the medium and advanced level: students can lose 8 points for the former and 2 points for the latter. Spelling dictionaries are provided and intermediate for the first part of the exam in the classrooms, and the second part of the intermediate exam can be used in the textbook list.

They provided poor performance last year

The examination of the exam – primarily the introduction of the literary worksheet – was already last year sharp criticism Value, as the test that focuses on lexical knowledge can include a lot of data, and due to preparing for it, much less time will Mariann Schillera member of the Hungarian Association of Hungarian Teachers said students would need both students at the university and in the labor market. A specialist is Eduline He had previously noted that changes in Hungarian maturity also affect the lower grades, as this requires the emphasis on education that does not necessarily help to become a reader.

Hungarian teachers predicted the loss of the newly introduced system – and with it Hungarian teaching – years ago in their view The death of literary teaching and « nationwide » is the new type of exam. So he didn’t even surprise them so much that the middle-level Hungarian language and literature in graduation in 2024 the lowest average of the last five years Born with 60.61 percentage points. This means that on the renewed exam Last year students performed almost 6 percentage points worseas in previous years – he drew attention to Eduline. The portal also pointed out that the government was pleased with the data published by the Education Office. Zoltán Maruzsa, Secretary of State for Public Education, considered the 2024 baccalaureate as successful, saying that the new system worked well and the 3.8 average of the students’ grades is equivalent to the average of recent years.

Hungarian language and literature will begin at 9 pm on May 5th. The full of the 2025 test schedule You can find in the table below: