High school exit exams elsewhere

[regentrude]

In another thread, EsterMaria had the idea to post examples of high school exit exams in other parts of the world.

 

Here is a link to the mathematics final exams for any college prep high school in my home state in Germany.

http://www.sn.schule.de/~matheabi/index.m.html

 

"gk" means "Grundkurs", the mandatory basic math course taken by every college bound student. "LK" means "Leistungskurs", the advanced course for student who choose math to be one of the subjects they want to take a harder class in. (Every student is required to declare several subjects in which he is taking the harder class)

 

Here is a sample for an English (foreign language) exam, LK:

http://www.stark-verlag.de/upload_file/Muster/145460m1.pdf

there would also be an oral part to the examination

 

 

And here is a collection of old exams in various subjects:

http://www.bildung-lsa.de/index.php?KAT_ID=335

Edited March 6, 2012 by regentrude

[Xander]

You can download A-level specimen/past papers from the exam boards' websites.

 

 

OCR:

http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/type/gce/index.aspx

 

Edexcel:

http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gce/gce08/Pages/default.aspx

 

AQA:

http://www.aqa.org.uk/qualifications/a-level.php

 

WJEC:

http://www.wjec.co.uk/index.php?subject=30&level=21

[Jean in Newcastle]

In Japan they are not exit exams but entry exams to get into a specific level of study (or track within that level). I couldn't find any by googling but they would be in Japanese anyway.;)

 

Wait - here are samples from a university entrance exam in mathematics: http://www.maa.org/juee/

Edited March 6, 2012 by Jean in Newcastle

[Ester Maria]

Last year (all are .PDF files):

 

Math, for students of scientific lycees

Design / architecture, for students of artistic lycees (this one is taken over a period of several days, candidates take it for six hours daily)

Foreign languages, for students of linguistic lycees (they do not all take all languages and the tests are not of equal difficulty for all languages; for English, you can scroll down to pages 6-9)

 

- All of the above are so-called "second tests", which are orientation-specific (first test is shared, Italian, which I am ignoring here as it is not terribly relevant; further tests depend on the type of school - second test is in one discipline only, and the third test in which a lot of subjects are mixed and which depends on the school so you only find simulations online, not official exams)

 

- For the third test, there are various types of questions, so you can see examples of math in three different typologies:

Typology A, dealing with the arguments synthetically

Typology B, open-ended questions - to translate one: Explain Euler's theorem and provide an example of a solid for whom it is not true (in the section Geometry of space, 1st question)

Typology C, darned multiple choice

 

English typology A, B, and darned C

 

I thought math and English were good to use as examples because they are pretty universal, I do not have to translate stuff :D, but the same things exist for art history, law, Latin, sciences, etc., depending on which subjects are meshed together. After the third exam, there is an oral exam.

 

Second exam gets picked every year on a national level, so for example classical lycees had Latin last year, but Greek this year; scientific lycees get math (legally they can get Latin too, LOL, but it does not happen in practice) and linguistic ones get languages.

 

ETA: Oh, and if you ask me... Both the first & the second tests from the last year are too easy; the third test would depend on the combination of subjects and typologies and how it is done.

Edited March 6, 2012 by Ester Maria

[Ester Maria]

In Japan they are not exit exams but entry exams to get into a specific level of study (or track within that level).

We have in some cases both the exit exams - to qualify to exit high school - and then the entry exams - to qualify to enter a particular course of university studies.

[Roadrunner]

We have in some cases both the exit exams - to qualify to exit high school - and then the entry exams - to qualify to enter a particular course of university studies.

 

This is how it used to be, but they reformed the system. I can't find samples online. In my alphabet it would look like Martian anyway.

 

I did find something from Russia

http://www.ucheba.ru/ege-article/12812.html

[elegantlion]

Thank you all for posting these.

[Laura in Torino]

I found this today in LaStampa and thought it would be a good addition to the list:

 

http://matutor.scuola.zanichelli.it/base/

 

It's online practice for the math portion of the maturita', plus previous tests.

 

Buona lavora!