Državna Matura Logic case studies

Logika is an elective subject on the Državna Matura (State Matura), the national school-leaving examination battery in Croatia. Candidates take it to demonstrate formal reasoning ability for university admission, particularly for study programmes in philosophy, law, mathematics, computer science, linguistics and teacher education, and to satisfy matriculation requirements alongside compulsory subjects. The examination is delivered in Croatian and tests standard introductory logic rather than advanced mathematics: the structure and kinds of concepts and definitions, the analysis of categorical and compound propositions and the logical relations among them, classical propositional logic including truth tables, tautologies and formal proof, classical predicate logic with quantifiers and multiple generality, the theory of inference and validity, identification and analysis of informal fallacies, and basic elements of modal and non-classical logic. Tasks range from recognition and short answer to constructed responses in which you must formalise an argument or justify a derivation, so passive familiarity is not enough. The Državna Matura Logic case studies are 5 cases and about 2,017 words.