The poster presents selected results from a questionnaire survey conducted at Czech upper secondary schools. We focused mainly on the form of the school-leaving examination in physics, on the proportion of students who choose to take this exam in physics, and also on why students choose physics as one of the subjects, how they prepare for the examination in physics, and which topics in physics are, in their opinion, the easiest or, on the contrary, the most difficult in terms of preparation for the school-leaving examination in physics