In Brandenburg, the official form for proposing a task for the Abitur, the final school examination, includes an Erwartungshorizont, a horizon of expectation. Its first section is headed Beschreibung der vom Prüfling erwarteten Leistung, a description of the performance expected of the candidate. A second section gives the criteria for marking. In Bavaria, the ministry provides teachers with such sheets for the final German examination of the Realschule. They set a framework within which the student’s work is to be marked. The ministry adds that teachers können und müssen auf kreative und individuelle Schülerleistungen eingehen, can and must respond to creative and individual answers.