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Maturita
Maturitní zkouška (Czech Maturita Examination)
📝 Upper Secondary / University Admission In-person, combining centrally set and graded written common-part exams with school-designed written, oral, and (for vocational tracks) practical profile-part exams. ⏱ Valid: A maturita certificate (maturitní vysvědčení) does not expire. Since 2011 (introduction of the centralized common-part structure, státní maturita, replacing a fully school-designed predecessor exam); the underlying maturita tradition itself dates to the Austro-Hungarian era ⚡ The common part is regarded as a consistent, predictable national standard given its centralized CERMAT grading, while the profile part's difficulty can vary meaningfully depending on a student's specific school and…
🕐 Last updated: September 7, 2026
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Quick Summary

The Czech maturita is the country's secondary-leaving exam, and its defining structural feature is a clean split between a common part — set and centrally graded nationwide by CERMAT, identical regardless of which school a student attends — and a profile part designed and graded entirely by the student's own school, capable of differing meaningfully in content and difficulty between institutions. A student chooses between a foreign language or Mathematics for the common part alongside compulsory Czech language and literature, while their own school sets the profile part's typically two or three additional components, which can include written, oral, and practical elements depending on the track. Sharing its name and pre-1993 origin with Slovakia's own Matura, the Czech Republic centralized its common part in 2011 and has continued to reform the school-run profile part since, most recently introducing an optional "Complex Profile Work" pathway starting in the 2025/26 school year. Because the two halves are graded under genuinely different standards — one fixed nationally, one set by the student's own teachers — a Czech maturita result reflects both a student's standing against a national benchmark and their specific school's own internal judgment simultaneously.

📋 Exam Overview
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Score Range
The common part's didactic tests are graded pass/fail with an accompanying percentage score; profile-part components are graded on the Czech 1 (excellent) to 5 (fail) school scale, per the individual school's own standard.
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Fee
Kč0 — no fee for students enrolled in Czech public secondary schools sitting the maturita during their standard final year.
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Valid For
A maturita certificate (maturitní vysvědčení) does not expire.
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Mode
In-person, combining centrally set and graded written common-part exams with school-designed written, oral, and (for vocational tracks) practical profile-part exams.
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Frequency
The common part runs annually, typically in May, with the school-run profile part scheduled around the same general period
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Conducted By
CERMAT (Centrum pro zjišťování výsledků vzdělávání) for the common part; individual secondary schools for the profile part, under Czech Ministry of Education oversight
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Difficulty
The common part is regarded as a consistent, predictable national standard given its centralized CERMAT grading, while the profile part's difficulty can vary meaningfully depending on a student's specific school and programme, since individual schools set their own standard for that half of the exam.
🌍 Accepted By
The standard qualification for admission to Czech public universities, though many competitive programs additionally require a separate university-specific entrance exam alongside a passed maturita.
The Czech Republic's leaving exam, split cleanly between a nationally standardized common part run by one testing agency and a school-designed profile part that can look genuinely different from one Czech secondary school to the next
👤 Who Should Take This Exam?
A student completing Czech secondary education — whether at a gymnázium, a technical secondary school (střední odborná škola), or a vocational school offering the maturita track — sits the maturitní zkouška to earn the credential required for admission to Czech universities. The exam splits into two genuinely distinct halves: a common part (společná část), set and centrally graded nationwide by CERMAT and identical regardless of which school a student attends, and a profile part (profilová část), designed and graded by the student's own school and therefore capable of differing meaningfully in content and difficulty between schools. Because the Czech Republic and Slovakia share the same maturita tradition dating to their shared pre-1993 history, but have each independently reformed their systems since splitting into separate countries, a Czech maturita today isn't identical to Slovakia's own Matura despite the common name and origin.
🎓 Education Level
Upper Secondary / University Admission
🌍 Accepted In
Czech Republic and recognized in Slovakia and other Central European countries for secondary-credential equivalency purposes.
📝 Exam Structure & Format
Question Types
Structured multiple-choice and short-answer questions for the common part's didactic tests, plus an extended written essay component in Czech language and literature; the profile part varies by school but typically includes written, oral, and sometimes practical or project-based components.
Language / Medium
Czech, with a foreign language (commonly English, German, French, Spanish, or Russian) examined separately, either as part of the common part or the profile part depending on the student's choice.
Total Duration
Around 110 minutes each for the common-part Czech language and literature exam and the foreign-language didactic test; profile-part component durations vary by school and subject.
Sections
A common part covering Czech language and literature plus either a foreign language or Mathematics (student's choice), and a profile part of typically two to three additional exams designed and graded by the student's own school.
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Time Per Section
The common-part Czech language and literature exam and the foreign-language didactic test each run around 110 minutes; profile-part exam lengths are set by the individual school and vary by subject.
Negative Marking
No
Calculator Allowed
The Mathematics common-part option and quantitative profile-part subjects allow a calculator, per CERMAT's or the individual school's own stated policy for that specific exam.
Scratch Paper
Yes — additional working paper is provided for the common part's written components and for profile-part exams requiring extended responses.
Breaks Allowed
Since the common part and profile part are scheduled on separate days across the exam period, breaks fall between different exam sessions rather than within any single sitting.
Home Edition
No — the common part is administered in person at CERMAT-designated centres and the profile part at the student's own school.
📑 Section Details
The common part's Czech language and literature exam, and the foreign-language didactic test if chosen over Mathematics, are set and graded identically nationwide by CERMAT, giving that half of the maturita a genuinely standardized character. The profile part, by contrast, is designed by the student's own school within Ministry curriculum framework (RVP) guidelines, typically comprising two or three additional exams that can include written, oral, and — for vocational and technical tracks especially — practical or project-based components specific to that school's own programme.
🎯 Scoring System
Score Range
The common part's didactic tests are graded pass/fail with an accompanying percentage score; profile-part components are graded on the Czech 1 (excellent) to 5 (fail) school scale, per the individual school's own…
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The common part's didactic tests are graded pass/fail with an accompanying percentage score; profile-part components are graded on the Czech 1 (excellent) to 5 (fail) school scale, per the individual school's own standard.
Good / Passing Score
A pass in every common-part component and every profile-part component is required; the common part's didactic tests carry a CERMAT-set percentage threshold, while profile-part components are judged pass/fail by the…
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A pass in every common-part component and every profile-part component is required; the common part's didactic tests carry a CERMAT-set percentage threshold, while profile-part components are judged pass/fail by the student's own school against its own curriculum standard.
How Scoring Works
The common part's centrally graded didactic tests produce both a pass/fail outcome and a percentage score benchmarked against the national CERMAT standard, while the profile part's components are graded by the student's own teachers on the familiar 1-to-5 Czech school scale, where 1 is the best grade. Because these two halves are graded under genuinely different systems — one centrally standardized, one school-specific — a maturita result reflects both a student's standing against a national benchmark and their own school's internal judgment simultaneously.
🏆 Minimum Scores for Top Universities
Passing both the common and profile parts is what qualifies a student for general university admission — there's no single minimum score beyond that. Many competitive university programs instead set their own separate entrance-exam thresholds rather than ranking applicants on a maturita-based cutoff.
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Writing
Assessed through the common part's Czech language and literature written essay component and through written profile-part exams the student's school sets.
Speaking
Assessed through the profile part's oral examinations, which most schools include for at least Czech language and literature and any additional chosen subjects.
Listening
Assessed within the common part's foreign-language didactic test, which includes a dedicated listening comprehension section.
Reading
Assessed within the common part's foreign-language didactic test as part of its reading and language-knowledge section.
Grammar
Assessed within the common part's foreign-language didactic test and within profile-part foreign-language exams where a school offers them.
Quantitative
Assessed through the Mathematics common-part option (if chosen over a foreign language) and through quantitative profile-part subjects set by the student's own school.
Subject
Each common-part component produces its own centrally graded percentage and pass/fail result, while each profile-part component produces its own school-graded 1-to-5 score, all recorded independently.
All Sub-Scores
The common part's percentage score and pass/fail outcome are recorded separately from each profile-part component's own 1-to-5 grade, all appearing individually on the final maturitní vysvědčení.
🔼 Score Improvement
CERMAT does not publish a standardized nationwide retake-improvement figure across all students and subjects.
💳 Registration & Fees
Fee (USD)
Kč0 — no fee for students enrolled in Czech public secondary schools sitting the maturita during their standard final year.
Fee (INR)
₹0 — the exam carries no fee for enrolled students in their graduation year; a graduate resitting a specific component in a later year faces a separate registration fee.
Other
A graduate resitting a specific common-part or profile-part component in a year after their original graduation faces a separate registration fee for that component.
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📋 Policies (rescheduling, cancellation, verification, waivers)See all ▾
⏰ Register in Advance
Registration for both the common part (through CERMAT's national system, coordinated by the school) and the profile part (set directly by the school) happens in a student's final secondary-school year, ahead of the spring exam period.
🔄 Rescheduling Policy
Common-part exam dates are fixed nationally by CERMAT and aren't individually rescheduled; profile-part dates are set by the student's own school. A documented medical emergency triggers a separate makeup-exam process for whichever part is affected.
🔍 Score Verification
CERMAT's standard appeal process lets a student formally request a review of a common-part didactic test's grading; profile-part components, being graded by the student's own school, follow that school's internal appeal procedure instead.
📋 Score Audit
Common-part audits run through CERMAT's own review process; profile-part audits run through the student's own school's internal appeal procedure.
↩ Reinstatement Policy
No
📅 Exam Dates & Schedule
📆 Available Months
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
🔁 Frequency
The common part runs annually, typically in May, with the school-run profile part scheduled around the same general period
📊 Results Declared
Common-part results are typically released before profile-part results are finalized, with the complete maturitní vysvědčení issued once both parts conclude, generally by June.
🔄 Retake Policy
A student who fails a specific common-part or profile-part component can resit just that component at a later date rather than repeating the entire maturita, since the two parts (and their individual components) are assessed and can be retaken separately.
⏰ Register By
Registration for both the common part (through CERMAT's national system, coordinated by the school) and the profile part (set directly by the school) happens in a student's final secondary-school year, ahead of the spring exam period.
✅ Eligibility & Access
🎂 Age Limit
The Czech Republic sets no age ceiling, though the typical candidate completes the standard secondary curriculum around ages 18-19.
🎓 Education Required
Completion of the final year of a Czech secondary school offering the maturita track (gymnázium, střední odborná škola, or certain vocational schools) is required to sit the exam.
🛂 Citizenship
Enrollment in the relevant Czech secondary curriculum is what qualifies a candidate, irrespective of nationality.
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🪪 ID Required
Both common-part and profile-part sessions require a school-issued or national identity document.
♿ Accessibility
For common-part accommodations (extended time, adapted materials), the school coordinates directly with CERMAT, then applies its own equivalent standard for the profile part.
🔀 Special Versions
A vocational or technical secondary track (odborná maturita) often includes a substantial practical or project-based profile-part component tied to that school's specific occupational specialization, distinct from the more academically focused gymnázium version.
📐 Subject Variants
A student chooses a foreign language or Mathematics for the common part, and their school sets the specific profile-part subjects and format, meaning two students at different Czech secondary schools can face a genuinely different overall maturita even within the same general track.
🤝 Disability Accommodations
Extended time or an adapted exam format for a documented disability gets arranged through the school, covering both the CERMAT-administered common part and the school-run profile part.
🗓 Exam Day Guide
✅ What to Bring
ID, standard stationery, and any subject-specific materials (such as an approved calculator) the common part's CERMAT instructions or the school's own profile-part instructions explicitly authorize.
🚫 Prohibited Items
Mobile phones and other electronic devices, unauthorized notes, and anything beyond what the specific common-part or profile-part exam's instructions permit.
📋 Exam Day Rules
Identification checks and standardized exam-hall procedures apply nationwide under CERMAT guidelines for the common part, while the profile part follows each individual school's own exam-day procedures within Ministry framework guidelines.
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⏱ Score Reporting
Common-part results typically arrive before the profile part concludes, with the full maturitní vysvědčení finalized by June once both parts are complete.
📤 Score Sending
The maturitní vysvědčení certificate itself, rather than a separately transmitted score report, is submitted by the student directly as part of university applications, often alongside a university-specific entrance exam result for competitive programs.
🎓 Score Recipients
The maturitní vysvědčení goes to the student and their school first, and the student then submits it directly to whichever Czech university or program they apply to.
📚 Preparation Guide
🗓 Avg Prep Months
9 months
Because the common part is centrally set and identical nationwide while the profile part is designed entirely by a student's own school, effective preparation genuinely splits into two tracks — practicing against CERMAT's own released past common-part papers for that half, and following the student's own teachers' specific guidance closely for the profile half, since that content and format won't match a generic national standard. A student choosing between the foreign-language or Mathematics option for the common part should make that decision based on genuine comparative strength well ahead of the exam period, since it fixes a meaningful share of preparation time either way.
💡 Top Tips & Tricks
Because the common part and profile part are genuinely different in both content and how they're graded, preparing for them as two distinct exams — one against a fixed national CERMAT standard, one against a student's own school's specific expectations — tends to work better than treating the maturita as one uniform exam to study for. Confirming a school's own specific profile-part format and past exams early in the final year avoids being caught unprepared for a component that, unlike the common part, has no single national past-paper archive to draw on.
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📅 Study Plan
Since the common part is graded to one fixed national CERMAT standard regardless of school, working directly from CERMAT's own released past papers for that half gives a genuinely representative sense of the actual exam, in a way generic revision guides can't fully replicate. For the profile part, because content and format are set entirely by a student's own school, following that school's specific guidance and past internal exams matters more than any general Czech maturita preparation material, since two schools' profile parts can differ substantially.
📖 Recommended Books
CERMAT's own published common-part exam specifications and past papers define that half's tested scope precisely; profile-part preparation instead follows whatever curriculum materials the student's own school assigns for its specific chosen subjects.
🏫 Popular Prep Courses
Private tutoring (doučování) covering the common-part subjects, particularly Mathematics and the foreign-language didactic test, is widely available across the Czech Republic, alongside school-specific profile-part support arranged directly through individual schools.
📱 Popular Prep Apps
Czech-market platforms offering common-part-aligned practice questions, reflecting CERMAT's actual national exam format, are commonly used alongside school-provided profile-part materials.
✅ Official Practice Tests
CERMAT's official portal provides past common-part papers with sample solutions for Czech language and literature, the foreign-language didactic test, and Mathematics. — Free — CERMAT's official past common-part papers carry no cost; profile-part practice materials, where provided, come directly from the student's own school.
🆓 Free Online Resources
CERMAT publishes official past common-part papers with sample solutions on its own portal, freely available to any student preparing for that centrally graded half of the exam.
⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid
Assuming the profile part will resemble the common part's centrally standardized format is a genuine mismatch, since profile-part content and difficulty are set entirely by a student's own school and can differ substantially from CERMAT's national standard. Choosing the common part's Mathematics or foreign-language option based on which seems generally easier, rather than genuine comparative personal strength, is another frequent miscalculation given how much preparation time that single choice ends up requiring either way.
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🔍 Insider Tips
During the oral exam, focus on logical structure and confidence, as the commission evaluates both knowledge and presentation skills.
⭐ Unique Features
Splitting the exam cleanly into a nationally standardized, centrally graded common part and a school-designed profile part that can vary meaningfully between schools is a structural design that gives the Czech maturita a genuinely hybrid character not fully shared by more uniformly centralized systems like Poland's Matura or more uniformly school-judged systems like Belgium's CESS. Allowing a student to choose between a foreign language and Mathematics for the common part's second required subject is also a distinctive flexibility not offered by every comparable Central European leaving exam.
🎓 How This Score Impacts Your Application
Because many competitive Czech university programs layer their own separate entrance exam on top of a passed maturita rather than ranking applicants by maturita score directly, the exam functions more as a required gate than a finely graded competitive input for those specific fields, while less competitive programs may admit on the maturita result more directly. The common part's centrally graded percentage carries more comparative weight across different schools than the profile part's school-specific grade, since the latter isn't benchmarked against one national standard the way the former is.
More insights: country notes, comparisons, myths, examiner tipsSee all ▾
🌍 Country-Specific Notes
The maturita is specific to the Czech Republic's education system, sharing its name and pre-1993 origin with Slovakia's own separately reformed Matura, and with Austria's and Poland's similarly named Matura traditions in the broader Central European family — though each country's version has diverged in structure since.
⚖️ Comparison with Alternatives
Unlike Poland's Matura, where every subject — compulsory and extended-level alike — is set and graded centrally by CKE with no school-specific component at all, the Czech maturita deliberately splits authority between CERMAT's centrally graded common part and each school's own profile part, producing a genuinely two-tier structure. Against Slovakia's own Matura, which shares the same pre-1993 origin and name, the Czech Republic's post-2011 centralized common-part reform and Slovakia's own separate subsequent reforms mean the two countries' otherwise closely related exams have diverged in real structural ways since the countries split.
🆕 Recent Changes
The Czech Ministry of Education has announced reforms to the school-specific profile part, introducing an optional "Complex Profile Work" pathway and expanded recognition of standardized certifications, with new options becoming available starting in the 2025/26 academic year.
🔜 Upcoming Changes
Continued piloting of new profile-part formats, including the Complex Profile Work option, is expected to expand gradually across more schools in upcoming cycles rather than being mandated nationwide immediately.
🧐 Myths vs Facts
Those comparing it to Poland's fully centralized Matura often assume the entire Czech maturita is set and graded nationally; in reality, only the common part is centrally standardized by CERMAT, while the profile part is designed and graded entirely by a student's own school. It's also easy to assume the Czech and Slovak Maturita are still essentially identical given their shared origin — in practice, the two countries have each independently reformed their systems since 1993, so a Czech maturita today differs in real structural ways from Slovakia's current Matura.
📋 Post-Exam Steps
Once the full maturitní vysvědčení is issued, a student targeting a competitive program should confirm whether their target university requires a separate entrance exam beyond the maturita itself, since many Czech programs layer additional admission requirements on top of a passed maturita rather than ranking directly on its result. A student planning to study outside the Czech Republic should also verify how the maturita, and its split common-part/profile-part structure, is recognized by the receiving country's own equivalency process.
🎯 Score Uses Beyond Admission
Czech employers broadly treat the maturitní vysvědčení as the standard secondary-education credential outside university admission too, and its recognition in Slovakia and other Central European countries can support secondary-credential equivalency processes for Czech graduates working or studying abroad.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How long is the Maturita score valid?+
A maturita certificate (maturitní vysvědčení) does not expire.
How much does the Maturita cost?+
Kč0 — no fee for students enrolled in Czech public secondary schools sitting the maturita during their standard final year.
How often can I retake the Maturita?+
A student who fails a specific common-part or profile-part component can resit just that component at a later date rather than repeating the entire maturita, since the two parts (and their individual components) are assessed and can be retaken separately.
When are Maturita results declared?+
Common-part results are typically released before profile-part results are finalized, with the complete maturitní vysvědčení issued once both parts conclude, generally by June.
Which universities accept the Maturita?+
The standard qualification for admission to Czech public universities, though many competitive programs additionally require a separate university-specific entrance exam alongside a passed maturita.
Is a calculator allowed in the Maturita?+
The Mathematics common-part option and quantitative profile-part subjects allow a calculator, per CERMAT's or the individual school's own stated policy for that specific exam.
How should I prepare for the Maturita?+
Because the common part is centrally set and identical nationwide while the profile part is designed entirely by a student's own school, effective preparation genuinely splits into two tracks — practicing against…
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Conducted ByCERMAT (Centrum pro zjišťování výsledků vzdělávání) for the common part; individual secondary schools for the profile part, under Czech Ministry of Education oversight
Year Started2011 (introduction of the centralized common-part structure, státní maturita, replacing a fully school-designed predecessor exam); the underlying maturita tradition itself dates to the Austro-Hungarian era
CategoryUpper Secondary / University Admission
Emailhttps://maturita.cermat.cz/kontakty
Last UpdatedSeptember 7, 2026
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