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The School Certificate was a qualification issued by the Board of Studies, New South Wales, typically at the end of Year 10. The successful completion of the School Certificate is a requirement for completion of the Higher School Certificate. The School Certificate was issued for the last time in 2011. It has been replaced with the RoSA ( Record of School Achievement)
The United Kingdom School Certificate was an educational attainment standard qualification, established in 1918 by the Secondary Schools Examinations Council (SSEC).
The School Certificate Examination was usually taken at age 16 with performance in each subject being graded as; Fail, Pass, Credit or Distinction. Students were required to gain six passes including English and mathematics in order to obtain a certificate and in order to obtain a ' matriculation exemption' it was necessary to obtain credits in five subjects including English, mathematics, science or a language. Those who failed could retake the examination.
Some students who passed then stayed on at school to take the Higher School Certificate at age 18. The School Certificate was abolished following the introduction of GCE O-Level examinations in 1951. The School Certificate also existed in a number of Commonwealth countries such as Australia and Singapore at various times.
The New Zealand School Certificate or School Certificate was a New Zealand secondary school qualification for high school students in Year 11 (Form 5).
The School Certificate is an academic qualification in Mauritius awarded upon the completion of Form 5, the penultimate stage of secondary school. The qualification is awarded upon earning passing marks on the O-level exams administered by the Mauritius Examinations Syndicate, in conjunction with the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate of the Cambridge International Examinations board.
Usage examples of "school certificate".
Entrance can be by examination (usually College Entrance Examination Boards) or by high school certificate.
Yeoman's School certificate at age sixteen, Advanced Yeoman's School certificate at age eighteen.
She looked at the high-school certificate, surprised by the power it had, surprised that she still cared about her lack of education.
They would not be good for having children, and not one of them looked as if she had her school certificate, or even her standard six.
Damiks grammar school certificate, from the Holmer Foster Gymnas Cooperative.
Why had Andy Lewis been allowed back into school, rather than pursuing the more normal course of enrolling in the local junior college for a high school certificate?