SKAM ITALIA AND BASICS OF ITALY PT 1: SCHOOLS
Hello everyone! Since Skam Italia is starting next week I decided to tell you about the school system in Italy, which is my country.
The first thing you need to know is that we have 3 years of kindergarden, 5 years of primary school, 3 years of middle school and 5 years of high school (we finish school when we are 18/19 as in Norway). In elementary and middle school you basically study the same subjects but in different ways (of course you’ll study them more in-depth in middle school).
High school is kind of complex because we decide in which type of school we want to study in our last year of middle school. High schools are divided in three major groups: licei (singular is liceo), istituti tecnici (sing. istituto tecnico) and istituti professionali (sing. istituto professionale).
At liceo you study more on a theoretical basis. In all of them you study Italian, History, Philosophy, Maths, Science, Physics, English, History of Art and P.E. (also Latin, but you sometimes you only study it for two years), but they are studied on a different level for each school. There are six main types of liceo: liceo classico (probably the one of Skam Italia) where you study mostly Italian but also Greek and Latin; liceo scientifico where Maths and Science are the two main subjects; liceo delle scienze umane where you study subjects as Psychology and Sociology; liceo linguistico (this is my school) where you can study languages, for example I do Spanish and Russian; liceo artistico where you study how to draw but also architecture for example; liceo musicale e coreutico where you study music. After liceo you are supposed to go to university otherwise you will not be able to find a good job.
At istituti tecnici you get both a theoretical education and a specialization. You can study for example economics, turism, technology etc.
At istituti professionali you study really practical subjects like engineering, agricolture, gastronomy etc and you are able to start a job as soon as you complete your studies.
Before finally finishing high school you have to do the esame di stato (state exame) or maturità (literally maturity) that takes place every year in June and July. We do four different tests: the prima prova (first test) in which the subject is always Italian, the seconda prova, the terza prova (in these two subjects are changable) and esame orale (oral test) in which we are tested orally in basically all the subjects.
Before the maturità we do the matura that I don’t think that all students in Italy do, but I think it’s the closest thing we have to the Norwegian Russefeiring tradition. It’s basically a very big party that takes place on a Friday at the end of May for all the last year students. We basically get drunk and party all night. (By the way I’m in my last year and I’m super excited about this, less about maturità though)
In basically all Italy students go to school from Monday to Saturday (so don’t be surprised if we will get clips on Saturday morning with the characters ar school) from around 8 am to around 1 pm. Most public schools work like this but in some private schools students go to school from Monday to Friday and also in the afternoon, but it reallt depends on the school.
We do both written (verifiche/compiti in classe) and oral tests (interrogazioni). The scale of marks goes from 2 (also 0 and 1 for some teachers) to 10, with 6 being the passing mark and 10 being the hightest of course. You can also get marks like 7 and a half or 7/8 or 7+ or 7- for example.
I hope this was useful for you!
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