Overview

• The Bundesschülerkonferenz criticized the national math Abitur exams, arguing they exceed classroom instruction and disadvantage students from lower-income backgrounds.
• Students are reportedly forced to prepare a significant portion of the exam material in their free time due to insufficient coverage in regular lessons.
• The student body is calling for nationwide reforms to align the exams with classroom curricula and to ensure fairness regardless of socio-economic status or region.
• Teacher and subject associations defend the current system, stating that the exams are based on standardized content prepared over two years using a federal task pool.
• Past controversies include grade adjustments in Lower Saxony (2022) and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (2023) after exams were deemed excessively difficult.