Wiedza młodzieży o organach władzy centralnej we współczesnej Polsce w świetle egzaminu maturalnego z wiedzy o społeczeństwie w latach 2010–2019

The article analyses all the tasks related to central state organs in contemporary Poland from the matricu-lation exams in civic education in the years 2010–2019. The empirical material also includes the rules for assessing the tasks’ solutions and exam reports. The analysis showed that the population of those who pass the “new exam” in civic education is qualitatively weaker than the population of those who passed the “old exam”, however, in the aforementioned issues these differences are generally smaller than the difference in the results of both high school final exams formula. The comparable differences to those in the overall score of the exam are only in tasks concerning judicial authorities. The last conclusion is paradoxical, because there was a stronger emphasis on those issues in the core curriculum of civic education.