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Key Facts: BY Abitur Catholic Religion (eA) Exam

1 of 4 tasks

Candidate's choice in the written Abitur (Textaufgabe, Erweiterte Textaufgabe, Themenaufgabe, Aufgabe mit Gestaltungsanteil)

ISB Übersicht Illustrierende Prüfungsaufgaben Katholische Religionslehre (Stand Februar 2026)

270 min / 120 BE

Working time and maximum Bewertungseinheiten at erhöhtes Anforderungsniveau (gA: 210 min / 100 BE)

ISB Allgemeine Hinweise zu den Illustrierenden Prüfungsaufgaben Katholische Religionslehre

4 hours / week

Unterrichtsumfang of Leistungsfach Katholische Religionslehre eA in the Profil- und Leistungsstufe (gA: 2 hours)

ISB Übersicht Illustrierende Prüfungsaufgaben Katholische Religionslehre

Bible

The permitted aid (Hilfsmittel) for the written Abitur tasks in Katholische Religionslehre

ISB Allgemeine Hinweise IlluPA Katholische Religionslehre

LehrplanPLUS Jgst. 12/13 (erhöht)

Curriculum basis of the first G9 Abitur 2026 for Leistungsfach Katholische Religionslehre

lehrplanplus.bayern.de, Gymnasium Katholische Religionslehre 12/13 (erhöht)

13 May 2026

Written exam date for weitere Abiturprüfungsfächer at erhöhtes Anforderungsniveau in 2026 (incl. Religionslehre as Leistungsfach)

KM Bayern, Aktuelles zur Abiturprüfung 2026

300 / 900

Maximum Abitur points from the five Prüfungsfächer; at least 300 of 900 points required for the Allgemeine Hochschulreife

KM Bayern, Aktuelles zur Abiturprüfung 2026

100

Original English MCQ study items in this bank (not official format)

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Bavaria Abitur Katholische Religionslehre (eA/Leistungsfach) is a 270-minute constructed-response exam: one task chosen from four, max. 120 BE, Bible as the only aid — not MCQ. Content follows LehrplanPLUS Gymnasium Jgst. 12/13 (erhöht): anthropology, God question and Bible, ethics with Katholische Soziallehre, truth claims and Christian hope. This free English MCQ bank is a study adaptation only.

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1In Catholic theology, what does it mean to call the Bible 'God's word in human words'?
A.Divine authorship cancels all human literary forms and historical conditioning
B.God's self-communication is attested through historically situated human authors, languages, and genres
C.Only the New Testament counts as God's word; the Old Testament is merely preparatory folklore
D.Every verse must be read as a timeless scientific statement
Explanation: Catholic teaching holds that revelation is mediated: inspired human authors write within their languages, cultures, and literary genres, yet the Scriptures as a whole witness to God's word. This formula rejects both a flat fundamentalism that erases human mediation and a reduction that treats the Bible as only human opinion.
2Which approach to Scripture does LehrplanPLUS contrast with a fundamentalist reading at eA depth?
A.A purely allegorical method that ignores the literal sense
B.Differentiated historical-critical and theological interpretation that asks about author, genre, context, and Wirkungsgeschichte
C.Reading only the Psalms as inspired
D.Accepting only privately revealed messages as authoritative
Explanation: At erhöhtes Anforderungsniveau, students are expected to engage Scripture differently from a fundamentalist reading: they analyze genre, historical setting, and interpretive tradition, then relate ethical or theological claims to life. ISB materials highlight this deepened Bibelauslegung demand for eA versus a more limited gA competency.
3Where in the Torah (Pentateuch) is the Decalogue transmitted in two classical versions?
A.Only in Leviticus
B.Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5
C.Only in Numbers
D.Genesis 1 and Genesis 2
Explanation: The Decalogue appears in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. Christian ethics treats it as a covenant framework of freedom and dignity, paired in LehrplanPLUS with the Sermon on the Mount as a key biblical reference for moral reflection.
4In Matthew 5:21–48, how does Jesus relate to the Law in the so-called antitheses of the Sermon on the Mount?
A.He abolishes the Decalogue as obsolete
B.He radicalizes and interiorizes the commandments by addressing anger, lust, truthfulness, and enemy love
C.He restricts ethics to ritual purity alone
D.He teaches that civil law replaces Torah
Explanation: The Matthean antitheses deepen the Law: murder is linked to anger, adultery to lustful looking, oaths to simple truthfulness, and retaliation to love of enemies. Catholic ethics reads this as fulfillment that intensifies the moral claim rather than a simple cancellation of Torah.
5What does the divine name revealed in Exodus 3:14 ('I am who I am' / Ehyeh asher ehyeh) primarily signal in classical Christian theology?
A.That God is identical with the cosmos
B.God's free, self-revealing presence that resists full conceptual capture
C.That Moses invents a tribal deity without transcendence
D.That God's name is irrelevant to prayer
Explanation: Exodus 3:14 is a foundational revelation text: God discloses a name that affirms living presence and freedom while refusing idolatrous control. Christian theology links it to the mystery of divine aseity and to later trinitarian reflection without reducing God to a worldly object.
6Which Pauline chapter is the classic New Testament locus for extensive reflection on resurrection hope?
A.Romans 13
B.1 Corinthians 15
C.Philemon
D.Titus 1
Explanation: 1 Corinthians 15 develops the resurrection of Christ as the ground of Christian hope and discusses the resurrection of the dead. LehrplanPLUS eschatology blocks regularly point students to this chapter when relating individual and universal hope.
7What is meant by the Catholic teaching that Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition form one deposit of faith?
A.Tradition replaces Scripture once councils meet
B.Scripture and the living apostolic Tradition together transmit revelation, authentically interpreted by the Magisterium
C.Only private mystical writings count as Tradition
D.Scripture and Tradition are unrelated and often contradictory by design
Explanation: Dei Verbum teaches that Scripture and Tradition flow from the same divine wellspring and form one sacred deposit. The Magisterium serves the Word by interpreting it authentically; it is not a third competing source inventing revelation independently.
8A student claims: 'If a biblical narrative uses mythic or symbolic language, it cannot communicate truth.' Which response best matches Catholic hermeneutics?
A.Agree: only laboratory-style reportage can be true
B.Disagree: truth in Scripture is communicated through diverse literary forms, including narrative, poetry, and symbolic language
C.Agree: all symbolic texts should be discarded from the canon
D.Disagree only for the Gospels; symbolism elsewhere is worthless
Explanation: Catholic interpretation recognizes that truth is not limited to modern historiographic prose. Poetry, parable, apocalyptic, and symbolic narrative can disclose theological truth. The interpretive task is to discern the sense the human authors intended and the truth God wished to communicate for salvation.
9Genesis 1:26–28 is central to Christian anthropology primarily because it speaks of humans as:
A.Eternal gods equal to the Creator
B.Created in the image and likeness of God, with vocation to stewardship
C.Soulless animals without dignity
D.Products of chance alone with no relational call
Explanation: The imago Dei (Gottebenbildlichkeit) grounds human dignity, relationality, and responsibility for creation. LehrplanPLUS places Gen 1–3 at the heart of the Christian Menschenbild, linking Personalität, Sozialität, and Transzendentalität.
10How should the prophetic critique of injustice (e.g., Amos, Isaiah) be related to Catholic social ethics at eA level?
A.As irrelevant ancient politics with no theological claim
B.As a biblical witness that worship without justice is empty, informing later Soziallehre principles
C.As proof that ethics has no place in religion
D.As a command to abolish all civil government
Explanation: The prophets bind covenant fidelity to justice for the poor and vulnerable. Catholic social teaching receives this trajectory when it insists that faith has public ethical consequences. An eA answer should show the line from prophetic critique to modern principles without equating Israelite monarchy with today's state forms.

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