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The "Reifeprüfung"-Certificate is a school-leaving certificate which provides access to studies at institutes of higher education.
The "Reifeprüfung"-Exam puts emphasis on reality-oriented studying, independent working, interdisciplinarity and on foreign languages.
The subjects in which the students have to sit an exam differ according to the school type. Each student, however, has to do a written exam in the core subjects of German, mathematics and foreign language. Students who opt for a fourth written exam only have to do three oral exams, all others have to do four.
In addition to that, special attention is being paid to the students' individual interests providing them with the opportunity to choose among various types of written and oral exams. Instead of doing a fourth written exam students may also choose to do a written project in the first semester of the eighth year. This written project will be discussed in the course of the oral "Reifeprüfung"-Exam and is supposed to prepare students for university-like working methods.
The oral exam specializing in a particular subject area either comprises the combination of a compulsory subject with a deepening compulsory elective or the combination of two related compulsory subjects.
The student is free to choose the subject area. In accordance with his teacher he may also decide on the field of the specialized question asked in each oral exam; as for the core question the focus, however, remains on the student's sound knowledge in the respective subject.
