Even after almost all the facilities introduced due to the corona pandemic have expired, the pass rates are high. At the main event in the spring or summer of 2023, the results were slightly worse than in the previous three years – but they were still significantly above the results of the pre-Corona period.
Between 2017 and 2019, about 85 to 86 percent of students who took the main exam passed the final exam.
In the first two Corona years, 2020 and 2021, this percentage shot up to around 94 percent, and in 2022 it was slightly lower again at 90.5 percent – probably also because some of the support measures are no longer in effect. was applicable. In 2023, further special measures were eliminated and the success rate now stood at 89.4 percent, according to an evaluation by Statistics Austria.
New Matura rules were introduced in 2020 due to the pandemic. Among other things, the oral Matura was exclusively voluntary, there were a maximum of three written exams and the working time for the exams was extended by one hour. In addition to the exam score, the year grade was also used for the Matura grade.
On the main date in 2023, only 6.7 percent of candidates had a five in at least one subject. For comparison: in 2019, the last year before Corona, this share was almost twice as high at 12.7 percent. Another 3.6 percent will not have completed the Matura in 2023 because they have not taken all parts of the exam.
The numbers also improved
Before the pandemic, between 15 and 17 percent of those who took the entrance exam passed with excellent success. In 2020 it was 19 percent, in 2021 it was 24 percent, in 2022 it was 21 percent and the year before that was 20 percent.
In 2021 and especially in 2022, part of the relief was removed again. From the start of the Matura in 2023, almost the ‘old’ Matura rules applied again. Major exception: the inclusion of the annual figure was probably the most important change retained and incorporated into the rules.
Source: Krone
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