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Liceo classico (literally classical lyceum) is a type of secondary school in Italy. It is designed to give students the skills to progress to any university or higher educational institution. Students can attend the liceo classico after successfully completing middle school (scuola media).

The curriculum is devised by the Ministry of Education.

Students typically study for five years, and attend the school from the age of 14 to 19. At the end of the fifth year all students sit for the esame di Stato, a final examination which leads to the diploma liceale.

A student attending a liceo is called liceale, although the more generic terms studente (male) and studentessa (female) are also in common use. Teachers are known as professore (male) or professoressa (female).

Curriculum
The table below shows the hours of teaching dedicated to each subject per week.

Final exam
The final exam is officially called esame di Stato, although the old name esame di maturità is still in common use. It is composed of three written and one oral part:
 * prima prova (first test), an Italian language written test which aims to test the candidate's expressive ability and critical thinking
 * seconda prova (second test), a written test generally on Latin or Greek.
 * terza prova (third test), a written test in the form of a series of questions requiring short answers, focussing on the subjects studied in the final year
 * a multidisciplinary oral exam in which the candidate is tested on the subjects studied in the final year

Students are examined by an exam committee which is formed in equal parts by their own teachers and teachers coming from other schools. The first and second tests are written by the Ministry of Education, while the third test and the oral exam are prepared and administered by the exam committee.

The final grade is given as a number out of 100, and is the sum of the points obtained by students in the final exam and the credit they accumulated over the previous years.