Dojrzałość, ale jaka? Egzamin maturalny z języka polskiego a wyzwania współczesności

This article seeks an answer to the question of how the Polish matriculation exam formula determines linguistic and cultural competencies and, above all, what impact it has on the development of the sense of subjectivity and self­agency in secondary school students. The starting point of the analysis is the formula of the Polish matriculation examination from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The diachronic approach is confronted with the analysis of the current examination formula. To achieve this, a survey was conducted among matriculation examiners concerning the current examination system and its adequacy to the challenges facing Polish language education in the twenty­first century.