!!!Beamten-Matura

Beamtenmatura (Civil Servants´ Matura): popular name for an 
external form of the Matura exam ( Reifepruefung). This type of exam 
was introduced after World War II, above all to overcome the shortage 
of senior civil servants created by denazification and to compensate 
victims of National Socialist persecution. Civil servants who passed 
the Mittelschulpruefung (secondary school leaving examination), as it 
was officially called, were put on the same level as persons who had 
passed the Matura. The exam was renamed Beamten-Aufstiegspruefung 
(approx. civil servants advancement exam) in 1979, and standards were 
raised: The exam can only be taken after eight years of service. It 
comprises the following subjects: German, History and Social Studies, 
Geography and Economic Studies (as taught at Realgymnasium secondary 
schools), and two out of a number of optional subjects (as taught up 
to the 6%%sup th/%  form of Realgymnasium schools), i.e. a first and a 
second foreign language, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and 
ecology. From among the optional subjects, candidates have to choose 
either mathematics or a foreign language and one of the other optional 
subjects.


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