📋 Tender Overview
June 22, 2026
Final exams for around 61,000 students begin - Minister of Education Anna Stolz emphasizes: Middle school is the springboard for a variety of educational and career paths.
The written final exams begin on Tuesday for around 61,000 students from Bavarian middle schools. This means they are on the home stretch towards a middle school diploma or a qualifying middle school diploma.
After the recent launch of the middle school initiative, Minister of Education Anna Stolz emphasized: Our middle schools are real places where people can get involved. Talents are discovered and promoted here - whether in crafts or social professions - and at the same time doors are opened to many other educational and career paths. Regardless of whether you continue at school or go straight into professional life: a degree from the Bavarian middle school makes you strong for every path!
Of course, the Minister of Education is also keeping her fingers crossed for the upcoming exams: Dear students, with the final exams you have reached the most important milestone of your school time. Graduating from middle school opens up many opportunities for your future! You have learned a lot and are well prepared thanks to your teachers! I wish you much success, good nerves and confidence in your strengths!
Examinations for secondary school leaving certificates and qualifying qualifications
From June 23rd to 25th, 2026, around 18,000 students in grade 10 of the intermediate maturity train and the preparatory classes will take the centrally set exams to achieve the intermediate school leaving certificate at the middle school. Around 43,000 students take part in the special assessment to obtain the qualifying middle school qualification. These will take place from June 26th to July 1st, 2026.
Central final examinations are held in the subjects of German or German as a second language (exclusively for the purpose of obtaining the qualifying secondary school diploma), mathematics and English/mother tongue. There is also the so-called project review. Here the examinees demonstrate their skills as part of a project. In addition, in the special performance assessment for the qualifying qualification, they can take an examination of their choice in the subjects of sports, music, art, computer science, computer science and digital design, accounting as well as religious teaching, ethics and Islamic education. The subject English can be replaced by the subject nature and technology or history/politics/geography.
Dates of the 2026 final exams at middle schools:
Final examinations for obtaining the intermediate school leaving certificate at secondary school:
June 23rd: German
June 24th: English/native language
June 25: Mathematics
Special performance assessments for obtaining the qualifying middle school diploma:
June 26: Native language
June 29: English
June 30th: German/German as a second language
July 1st: Mathematics
The middle school in Bavaria
The middle school combines consistent practical and career orientation with individual support and personality development. It prepares students for dual training and at the same time opens up a variety of educational paths in the permeable Bavarian school system up to university entrance qualification. Most recently, around 207,000 students attended this type of school. In addition, more than a quarter of all students continue to move on to middle school after grade 4 (28.7 percent in the 2024/25 school year).
For more information about the middle school initiative, see the Middle School - Strong for Every Path initiative.
Further information about the Bavarian Middle School can be found at: Middle School | Types of schools | Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture (bayern.de)
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