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Key Facts: Maturità Linguistico Exam

60 / 100

Minimum score required to pass the Maturità diploma

MIM Ordinanza Ministeriale 54/2026

40 points

Maximum academic credit (credito scolastico) from years 3-5

MIM Quadri di Riferimento

6 hours

Duration of Prima Prova (Italian essay/text analysis)

MIM Official Exam Guidelines

6 hours

Duration of Seconda Prova (Foreign Language comprehension/production)

MIM Official Exam Guidelines

Set by commission

Duration of multidisciplinary Colloquio Orale

MIM Official Exam Guidelines

B2 / C1

CEFR foreign language proficiency assessed at graduation

MIM Quadri di Riferimento Liceo Linguistico

€12.09

Statutory state examination registration fee (tassa erariale)

Agenzia delle Entrate / MIM

The Maturità Liceo Linguistico is Italy's foreign-language secondary school-leaving exam consisting of two 6-hour written papers (Italian and Foreign Language B2/C1) and a multidisciplinary oral colloquio. Evaluated out of 100 points (minimum 60 to pass), combining up to 40 school credit points and 60 examination points.

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1In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Macbeth reflects upon the death of Lady Macbeth with the lines: "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more: it is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing." What central philosophical outlook is encapsulated in this soliloquy?
A.A resolute stoicism urging the protagonist to accept royal destiny with calm resignation
B.A Neoplatonic conviction that earthly illusions will be redeemed in an immortal afterlife
C.A Machiavellian justification of ruthless political action regardless of transient moral judgments
D.An existential nihilism portraying human life and worldly ambition as utterly devoid of meaning and permanence
Explanation: In Act V, Scene 5, Macbeth's reaction to the news of his wife's death reveals complete existential despair. The theatrical metaphor reduces life to a brief, insubstantial performance ("a poor player") and history to meaningless noise ("sound and fury, / Signifying nothing"), stripping his bloody pursuit of power of all purpose.
2In Hamlet's soliloquy in Act III, Scene 1 ("To be, or not to be, that is the question..."), what primary consideration prevents the Danish prince from taking his own life to escape earthly suffering?
A.His unwavering duty to execute immediate physical revenge against King Claudius
B.His fear of losing his legal right to the throne of Denmark under elective succession
C.The paralyzing dread of the unknown and what dreams may come in "the undiscovered country" after death
D.The moral advice provided by Horatio reminding him of Christian fortitude
Explanation: Hamlet explicitly states that "the dread of something after death, / The undiscovered country from whose bourn / No traveller returns, puzzles the will." This existential uncertainty makes human beings bear current afflictions rather than flee to unknowable torments.
3In Book I of John Milton's epic Paradise Lost, the fallen archangel Satan proclaims: "The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. / What matter where, if I be still the same...?" How does this statement illuminate Milton's complex characterization of Satan?
A.It establishes Satan's titanic psychological autonomy and unyielding defiance, making his own ego the ultimate arbiter of reality
B.It shows Satan embracing humility and acknowledging that divine geography is arbitrary
C.It represents a satirical parody of medieval scholastic debates regarding purgatory
D.It reflects orthodox 17th-century Puritan theological teachings regarding predestined salvation
Explanation: Milton endows Satan with magnificent rhetorical power and psychological defiance. By asserting that the mind constructs its own reality independent of physical location or divine judgment, Satan embodies the tragic hubris of absolute self-deification, foreshadowing Romantic interpretations of him as an epic rebel.
4In Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), how does Crusoe's habit of keeping a meticulous written journal and drawing up double-entry ledgers of "Evil" and "Good" reflect the ideological ethos of the 18th-century English middle class?
A.It combines Puritan spiritual introspection with bourgeois accounting methods and practical economic rationality
B.It demonstrates his rejection of European commerce in favor of pastoral utopian isolation
C.It mocks the rise of banking institutions in London during the South Sea Bubble
D.It shows his complete descent into madness through obsessive-compulsive clerical rituals
Explanation: Defoe's protagonist embodies the rising mercantile bourgeoisie (homo oeconomicus). His journal fuses the Puritan tradition of spiritual self-examination—interpreting trials as divine providence—with practical commercial bookkeeping, turning survival on the island into an exercise in methodical labor and enterprise.
5In Book IV of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Lemuel Gulliver visits the country of the Houyhnhnms. What philosophical target is Swift primarily satirizing through the contrast between the virtuous, rational horses and the repulsive, human-like Yahoos?
A.The European scientific method established by Francis Bacon in the Novum Organum
B.The anthropocentric pride of mankind and the Enlightenment definition of man as inherently an "animal rationale"
C.The commercial navigation laws enacted by the British Whig administration
D.The equestrian practices and horse-breeding techniques of the Irish aristocracy
Explanation: Swift famously remarked in a letter to Alexander Pope that humans are not animal rationale, but merely rationis capax (capable of reason). By making horses the embodiment of pure reason and depicting human-like beings as savage, filthy beasts, Swift systematically demolishes human moral vanity and intellectual arrogance.
6William Blake organized his poetry into Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794), showing "the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul." When contrasting "The Lamb" with "The Tyger", what essential theological question does Blake pose in "The Tyger"?
A.Whether pagan mythologies can be harmonized with Anglican ecclesiastical dogma
B.Whether the industrial factory system will completely replace agricultural husbandry in Britain
C.Whether human language possesses sufficient lexical variety to describe exotic animals
D.Whether the fierce, destructive energies of creation can originate from the same creator who made gentle innocence ("Did he who made the Lamb make thee?")
Explanation: In "The Tyger", Blake confronts the terrifying dualism of the universe. Unlike the gentle, pastoral creator celebrated in "The Lamb", the forge of the Tyger suggests an awe-inspiring, sublime deity responsible for both ferocity and innocence, challenging orthodox Christian complacency.
7In the 1800 Preface to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth famously formulated a foundational doctrine of English Romantic poetry. According to Wordsworth, what is the origin of authentic poetry?
A.The strict imitation of Classical models through refined Latinate diction and heroic couplets
B.The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings taking its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity
C.The detached intellectual observation of urban civil society and political institutions
D.The scholarly translation of ancient Celtic epics into contemporary vernacular ballads
Explanation: Wordsworth wrote that "poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity." The poet experiences deep emotional sensations in nature, contemplates them later in calm reflection, and recreates a kindred feeling through the creative imagination.
8In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), what is the moral and ecological turning point in the Mariner's spiritual journey across the Antarctic and equatorial seas?
A.When he orders the crew to throw the dead Albatross overboard into the ocean depths
B.When he curses the slimy water-snakes for living while his fellow crew members lie dead on the deck
C.When he unconsciously blesses the water-snakes "unaware", recognizing their beauty and feeling universal love for all living things
D.When the Hermit of the Wood absolves him conditionally in exchange for navigation charts
Explanation: The turning point occurs in Part IV. When the Mariner looks upon the water-snakes moving in the moonlight, he no longer sees them as repulsive creatures; instead, a spring of love gushes from his heart and he blesses them unaware. At that exact moment, the Albatross drops from his neck, signaling the start of his redemption.
9John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" concludes with the famous and enigmatic aphorism: "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' — that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." What central paradox of Keatsian aesthetics does the poem explore?
A.The tension between the eternal, static perfection of art and the passionate, fleeting mortality of human life
B.The political dispute between British imperial antiquarian collecting and modern Greek sovereignty
C.The conflict between scientific empirical truth and religious biblical revelation
D.The superiority of kinetic performance drama over static ceramic carving
Explanation: Throughout the ode, Keats explores the "Cold Pastoral" of the urn. While the carved lovers and trees will never fade, suffer heartbreak, or die, their immortality comes at the cost of warmth and vitality, contrasting eternal artistic stasis with painful but vivid human mutability.
10In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), what primary moral transgression leads to Victor Frankenstein's ruin and the tragic destruction of his family?
A.His refusal to complete his medical degree at the University of Ingolstadt
B.His financial extravagance that bankrupted his father's estate in Geneva
C.His scientific hubris in usurping the natural power of creation combined with his irresponsible abandonment of the sentient creature he brought to life
D.His decision to collaborate with criminal graverobbers in violation of Swiss penal statutes
Explanation: Mary Shelley critiques Enlightenment scientific overreaching unguided by moral empathy. Victor's fatal flaw is not merely animating artificial life, but recoiling in disgust at his creation's physical appearance and abandoning him to complete social ostracism, driving the benevolent creature to monstrous revenge.

About the Maturità Linguistico Exam

The Liceo Linguistico Maturità combines the national Italian Prima Prova, a six-hour Foreign Language 1 comprehension and production Seconda Prova, and a multidisciplinary oral whose duration is set by the commission. Under OM 54/2026, the oral starts with a brief candidate reflection and covers four designated disciplines, civic education, formazione scuola-lavoro, and the written papers. This is an independent English-language four-option study adaptation. Target-language material is preserved only where integral to the skill; the bank is not an official translation or a simulation of written production or oral performance.

Exam sponsor: Ministero dell'Istruzione e del Merito (MIM). The requirements and fees below concern the certification or admission exam, separate from our free practice resources.

Assessment

The Maturità Liceo Linguistico comprises up to 40 school-credit points plus Prima Prova (Italian, max 20, 6 hours), Seconda Prova (the designated foreign-language comprehension and production paper, max 20, 6 hours), and Colloquio Orale (max 20; duration set by the commission). The oral covers four designated disciplines, civic education, formazione scuola-lavoro, and discussion of the written papers. Minimum: 60/100.

Time Limit

Prima Prova 6 hours; Seconda Prova 6 hours; oral duration set by the commission

Passing Score

Minimum 60/100 points overall across school credit and the three exam parts

Exam / Certification Fees

€12.09 (statutory state examination fee)

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35%

English Language & Literature (Lingua e Cultura Straniera 1)

Reading comprehension, textual analysis, literary movements from Shakespeare to Postmodernism, advanced grammatical/syntactic structures, and stylistic analysis

30%

Second Foreign Language & Literature (French, Spanish, German)

Target-language textual analysis, literary movements, morphosyntactic structures, and cultural-historical context across French, Spanish, and German

20%

Italian Language, Comparative Linguistics & Translation Theory

Stylistic devices, register shifts, comparative syntax across European languages, false friends, and theoretical foundations of translation

15%

Intercultural Competence & European Civilization

European integration history, multilingualism policy, postcolonial diaspora literature, media discourse, and civic education frameworks

Preparing for the Maturità Linguistico Exam

What You Need to Know

  • Passing score: Minimum 60/100 points overall across school credit and the three exam parts
  • Assessment: The Maturità Liceo Linguistico comprises up to 40 school-credit points plus Prima Prova (Italian, max 20, 6 hours), Seconda Prova (the designated foreign-language comprehension and production paper, max 20, 6 hours), and Colloquio Orale (max 20; duration set by the commission). The oral covers four designated disciplines, civic education, formazione scuola-lavoro, and discussion of the written papers. Minimum: 60/100.
  • Time limit: Prima Prova 6 hours; Seconda Prova 6 hours; oral duration set by the commission
  • Exam / certification fees: €12.09 (statutory state examination fee) Official sources

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Maturità Linguistico: Suggested Study Strategy

1Master text analysis techniques for both prose and poetry across your foreign languages: identify narrative perspective, tone, figurative devices, and historical-literary context.
2Practice structured essay writing in Italian and your primary foreign language within strict time limits: develop coherent theses with clear topic sentences and evidence.
3Review core comparative grammar: contrast Romance and Germanic syntax, subjunctive moods, indirect speech, passive constructions, and false cognates.
4Prepare multidisciplinary connections for the oral colloquio: create conceptual links between literary movements (e.g., Romanticism, Decadentism, Existentialism), historical events (e.g., WWI, totalitarianism, European integration), and Civic Education.
5Read authentic foreign-language journalism and literary excerpts daily to expand specialized vocabulary and refine register recognition.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the structure of the Maturità for the Liceo Linguistico?

The exam comprises Prima Prova (Italian, 6 hours, max 20), Seconda Prova (Foreign Language 1 comprehension and production, 6 hours, max 20), and Colloquio Orale (max 20; duration set by the commission), plus up to 40 school-credit points. The 2026 oral begins with a brief reflection and covers four designated disciplines, civic education, formazione scuola-lavoro, and the written papers.

What is the passing score for the Maturità Liceo Linguistico?

Candidates must earn an overall score of at least 60 out of 100 points across the three exam components (up to 60 points) and their three-year school credit (up to 40 points). A score of 100 with honors (100 e lode) may be awarded by unanimous decision of the commission under strict ministerial criteria.

What foreign languages are tested in the Seconda Prova?

Under the annual ministerial decree (Ordinanza Ministeriale), the MIM designates which foreign language serves as the subject of the Seconda Prova for the given year (typically Lingua Straniera 1, predominantly English, though French, Spanish, or German can be designated). The exam assesses reading comprehension of literary and non-literary texts and written production at the B2/C1 CEFR level.

What are the allowed aids during the written examinations?

For the Prima Prova, candidates are permitted to use a monolingual Italian dictionary. For the Seconda Prova, candidates may use monolingual and bilingual dictionaries in the tested foreign language. Electronic devices, smartphones, and unauthorized reference materials are strictly prohibited.

Is this practice bank an official MIM examination simulation?

No. This practice bank is an independent educational resource developed by OpenExamPrep. It adapts the themes, literary texts, grammatical competence, and comparative linguistics defined in the official MIM Quadri di Riferimento into a four-option multiple-choice study format. It does not replicate the open-ended written essays or the live speaking examination administered by official state commissions.