Abitur in Erding: raise your hands, end of school!

Graduation in the Corona year: This year's Abitur classes at the two Erdinger grammar schools have mastered this challenge.

On Friday they got their grades - and celebrated the end of their school days extensively.

Erding - The class of the Korbinian-Aigner-Gymnasium (KAG) achieved a preliminary best average of 1.99.

School principal Andrea Hafner and senior level supervisor Markus Mitschke also highlighted this above-average performance when the grades were announced.

68 high school graduates achieved a one before the decimal point, 34 a single high school diploma (up to 1.5).

Four graduates achieved the top grade of 1.0.

Edis Yardim (18) from Erding, Christina Kliem (18) from Wartenberg, Antonia Reithmeier (17) from Moosinning and Katharina Fertl (18) from Walpertskirchen are proud of themselves and overjoyed with this achievement.

Another four high school graduates were happy about an average of 1.1.

"Such results require a lot of discipline and personal work," praised Hafner.

KAG high school graduates 2021: Very disciplined, efficient and ready for flexibility

Despite Corona, there was a particular feeling of togetherness this year.

146 of the 152 high school graduates had voluntarily undergone a corona rapid test on the day before the start of the examination in order to write their Abi together in the gym.

Those who did not want to be tested, took the exam in a separate room.

"We motivated each other so that everyone could write together and pass the Abitur together," says Yardim, who is aiming to study medicine in Munich.

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At the Korbinian-Aigner-Gymnasium Erding (front, from left) Jule Maylandt (1.1), Emilia De Mattia (1.1), Antonia Reithmeier (1.0), Carina Neumayr (1.1), (back, from left) ) Edis Yardim (1.0), Christina Kliem (1.0), Romina Stein (1.1) and Katharina Fertl (1.0) achieved the best high school graduation marks.

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Upper level supervisor Mitschke described the class as very disciplined, productive and ready for the flexibility that was necessary due to the constant changes in the corona pandemic. "The exams were humane and comparable to previous years," said 18-year-old Yardim. For Fertl, the preparation time was nerve-wracking and exhausting: "I put myself under a lot of pressure," says the 18-year-old, who will soon do a federal volunteer year.

With enough preparation, anyone can take the exam, said Kliem.

She passed an additional practical exam in the subject of music and is aiming for a degree, possibly in combination with her instrument violin.

Reithmeier, who will study medicine in Regensburg, saw the situation a little more relaxed.

“I think that enough free time is important even in the preparation time,” she said with a smile.

Some of the KAG high school graduates are still going to take the re-examination next week, including a formerly positive student who was therefore unable to take the exams.

AFG high school graduates: A trio of women tops the list of the best

At the Anne Frank Gymnasium (AFG), a trio of women topped the list this year.

Jana Schröder (18) from Hofsingelding, Carina Haider (18) from Fraunberg and Sarah Heilmaier (17) from Altenerding achieved the dream grade of 1.0.

When the grades were announced on Friday, Schröder was quite surprised: "I learned a lot and really got into it, but the straight 1.0 was surprising," said Schröder.

The young woman from Hofsingeldingen has not yet fully planned her professional future.

You can choose between journalism and psychology.

But now she would like to travel first - "if that is possible".

Work and travel in South Korea, for example, would appeal to them.

Haider will go straight to university in autumn.

She will study physics at the research center of the Technical University of Munich in Garching.

"I find astrophysics incredibly interesting and I can also see myself well in research," said the 18-year-old, who has a more or less familiar background when it comes to physics: Her grandparents also studied physics.

Heilmaier doesn’t have her place in her pocket yet, but with 1.0 the best prerequisites for studying medicine.

She will probably choose dentistry - "I did an internship at the dentist in the ninth grade, and I really liked that," said the 17-year-old.

All three women describe their Abitur under Corona conditions as exhausting and quite difficult. Also because in lockdown there would have been no classmates and the opportunity to compensate for learning. “But we had very nice teachers who supported us a lot,” said Schröder.

At the AFG, the provisional average this year is 2.12.

But that will change, said headmistress Regine Hofmann, because some of the 81 high school graduates would go to the oral examination next week.

Hofmann and the senior coordinators Elisabeth Ringler and Alexander Wolf are definitely proud of the achievements of their protégés.

"It was even more difficult for them than the previous year," said Ringler: They had to go through a lockdown twice, exams were no longer applicable, they were more on their own.

"But they dressed properly and hung in."

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