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Key Facts: BY Abitur Ethics (eA) Exam

1 of 4 tasks

Candidate's choice in the written Abitur (four proposed tasks; Teilaufgaben with/without text, erörternde and gestalterische elements)

ISB Übersicht Illustrierende Prüfungsaufgaben Ethik (Stand Juli 2025); GSO Anlage (Ethik)

270 min / 120 BE

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

ISB Übersicht Illustrierende Prüfungsaufgaben Ethik; GSO Anlage (Ethik)

13 May 2026

Written eA block date for 'alle weiteren Abiturprüfungsfächer' including Ethik Leistungsfach (KM Bayern Terminübersicht 2026)

KM Bayern, Aktuelles zur Abiturprüfung 2026

4-stündig Leistungsfach

Ethik eA is compulsory as Abiturprüfungsfach; written or oral examination possible

ISB Übersicht Illustrierende Prüfungsaufgaben Ethik

LehrplanPLUS Jgst. 12/13 eA

Curriculum basis of the first G9 Abitur 2026 (Profil- und Leistungsstufe, erhöht), including Eth12 1.2 Bereichsethiken

lehrplanplus.bayern.de, Gymnasium Ethik 12/13 (erhöht); ISB Implementierung LehrplanPLUS Ethik

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

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Bavaria Abitur Ethik (eA/Leistungsfach) is a 270-minute constructed-response exam: one task chosen from four, max. 120 BE — not MCQ. Content follows LehrplanPLUS Gymnasium Jgst. 12/13 eA: ethical theories, Bereichsethiken (incl. media), anthropology, society/politics ethics, Erkenntnistheorie/freedom. This free English MCQ bank is a study adaptation only.

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1In LehrplanPLUS Leistungsfach Ethik, normative ethical theories primarily supply candidates with...
A.frameworks for justifying why an action counts as right or wrong
B.statistical averages of what most people in Bavaria currently prefer
C.legal statutes that automatically settle every moral conflict
D.purely private tastes that cannot be discussed in public
Explanation: Normative ethics offers reasoned models — virtue, duty, consequences, discourse, responsibility — for justifying moral judgments. At eA, students must compare these frameworks and apply them to cases, not merely report majority tastes or statutes.
2Plato's Idea of the Good functions in ethical theory primarily as...
A.the highest measure by which particular virtues and just institutions are oriented
B.a catalogue of consumer preferences in the marketplace
C.a refusal to rank any ends as better than others
D.a claim that only pleasure can be intrinsically valuable
Explanation: In Plato, the Idea of the Good is the supreme orientation for knowledge and virtue; particular goods and political arrangements are judged by their participation in it. It is not hedonism, preference listing, or value relativism.
3Aristotle's doctrine of the mean (Mesotes) holds that moral virtue typically...
A.lies in a context-sensitive intermediate between excess and deficiency
B.always requires maximizing total pleasure for everyone
C.consists solely in obeying a formal duty independent of character
D.is identical with legal compliance under positive law
Explanation: Aristotelian ethische Tugend is a hexis that hits the mean relative to us — courage between cowardice and recklessness. It is character-centered and situational, not pure hedonism, pure deontology, or mere legality.
4Kant's Grundformel of the categorical imperative requires that you act only on maxims that...
A.you can will as a universal law for all rational agents
B.maximize your personal advantage in the short term
C.match the customs of your immediate peer group
D.produce the greatest aggregate happiness in this particular case
Explanation: The universal-law formula tests whether a maxim can be willed without contradiction as a law for all. It is deontological: rightness tracks universalizability of the maxim, not personal gain, local custom, or case-by-case utility.
5Kant's Formula of Humanity (Selbstzweckformel) forbids treating persons merely as...
A.means to an end, without also respecting them as ends in themselves
B.citizens who may vote in elections
C.beings who ever experience pleasure or pain
D.members of any particular nation-state
Explanation: The Selbstzweckformel demands that humanity in oneself and others never be used merely as a means. Instrumental use is allowed only when the person's dignity as an end is simultaneously respected (e.g., fair contracts).
6Classical act utilitarianism judges an action by...
A.whether its consequences produce the greatest overall happiness or preference satisfaction
B.whether its maxim can be universalized as a law of nature
C.whether it expresses a virtuous character trait of the agent
D.whether it matches revealed religious commandments
Explanation: Act utilitarianism is consequentialist: the right act is the one with best overall outcomes (happiness/preferences). Universalizability is Kantian; character is Aristotelian; divine command is a different foundation.
7Rule utilitarianism differs from act utilitarianism mainly by...
A.evaluating the utility of adopting general rules rather than calculating each single act in isolation
B.denying that happiness has any moral relevance
C.requiring that every rule be willed as a Kantian duty
D.restricting moral concern to the agent's own family only
Explanation: Rule utilitarianism asks which rules, if generally followed, would maximize utility, then judges acts by those rules. It remains utilitarian (happiness-relevant) and is not automatically Kantian or egoistically restricted.
8A common Leistungsfach-level criticism of act utilitarianism is that it may...
A.justify sacrificing an innocent person if that somehow maximizes total utility
B.forbid all calculation of consequences under any circumstances
C.require agents never to consider other people's welfare
D.collapse into Plato's theory of Forms without remainder
Explanation: Critics argue that pure act utilitarianism can license rights violations when aggregate utility rises. It does not forbid consequence-calculation; it centers it. It is impartial, not egoistic, and is not a Platonist metaphysics.
9Habermas's discourse ethics locates moral validity primarily in...
A.norms that could win uncoerced agreement in an ideal discourse among those affected
B.the private conscience of a solitary ruler
C.the maximization of GDP as a proxy for the good
D.the unexamined traditions of a closed community
Explanation: Diskursethik treats justified norms as those that participants could accept under conditions of free, equal, and informed argumentation. It opposes authoritarian fiat, crude economic reduction, and uncritical traditionalism.
10In discourse ethics, a herrschaftsfreier Diskurs ideally excludes...
A.coercion, manipulation, and exclusion that block equal participation
B.all disagreement about normative claims
C.any reference to empirical facts
D.the possibility of revising one's initial opinion
Explanation: Herrschaftsfreiheit means power asymmetries should not distort who may speak and be heard. Disagreement, facts, and opinion-revision are all part of genuine discourse; coercion and manipulation are what must be excluded.

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