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The grading standards for public elementary and secondary schools (including secular and separate; English and French first language schools) are set by the Ontario Ministry of Education and includes letter grades and percentages. In addition to letter grades and percentages, the Ministry of Education also uses a level system to mark its students.
The Ontario education system had a final fifth year of secondary education, known as Grade 13 from 1921 to 1988; grade 13 was replaced by OAC for students starting high school (grade 9) in 1984. OAC continued to act as a fifth year of secondary education until it was phased out in 2003.
To obtain an Ontario Secondary School Diploma, one must earn the following compulsory credits: [3] 4 credits in one's first language (English or French) (from Grade 9 - 12, one credit per year), 3 credits in Mathematics, with at least one credit in Grade 11 or 12, 2 credits in Science, one in Grade 9 and one in Grade 10,
The Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT; French: test provincial de compétences linguistiques or TPCL) is a compulsory standardized test for secondary school students in Ontario who wish to obtain the Ontario Secondary School Diploma. For students who entered Grade 9 in 1999–2000, successful completion of the test was not a ...
Grade 7, including the subjects reading, writing, and mathematics. [10] Grade 8, including the subjects reading, writing, and mathematics. [10] Grade 12 Provincial Tests — taken in some grade 12 level courses. Exam mark is worth 30% of final course grade except for Essential Mathematics test which is worth 20%. [11]
With standards-based grading, teachers provide students with scores between one and four. A one means that a student is beginning to learn the standard, and a four reflects exceeded proficiency.
The grades A to E are passing grades, while F denotes failure. Grades A, C and E all have different requirements and the requirements for A are, naturally, the hardest to reach. The grades B and D are given when a student has met all the requirements for the grade below (E or C) and a majority of the requirements for the grade above (C or A). [49]
Ontario student achievement results have had mixed success and failure since the EQAO began. For example, in the five years preceding 2018, grade six student reading scores increased from 79 to 82 per cent of students meeting the provincial standard (up from an all-time low in 1999 of only 48 per cent).