Italian high school students face second day of exams

(ANSA) - Rome, June 18 - A half-million Italian high school students entered the second day of final exams on Thursday, with each type of high school providing a specialized state exam for its students.
    Students in the classic high schools were faced with a Latin exercise on Tacitus; a math exercise for students at scientific high schools including a problem on cell phone rate plans for international calling; business economy for administration, finance and marketing students; general psychology for social and health services students; science and culture of food for tourism students, including an article from UK daily The Telegraph on food and different worlds; and for language students, an article from The Guardian on social eating.
    Making its debut this year is the final exam for choral and musical students, a high school that came about from the Gelmini education reform of 2010-2011.