My thesis focuses on secondary school learners’ foreign language learning motivation. It examines how students become motivated and what they are interested in the Hungarian educational system. It also deals with how language exams and extra points for further education influence students’ motivation in secondary school. Furthermore, it analyses the fields that secondary school learners are interested in. The aim of the study was to get a varied picture about the topic, so the questionnaire was filled by students of two different types of secondary school classes. One of the classes was an advanced foreign language class, whereas the second class was a class specializing in national security.