Quebec+DES+Requirements

To obtain your High School Diploma (DES) the following requirements must be fullfilled:

As a general rule, a pass (60% or more) in: Secondary 4 Math, Science, History and Arts Secondary 5 English Secondary 5 French Second Language or French First Language) Secondary 5 Passing Mark in either ERC or Physical Education

and a total of no less than 54 credits.

For each of the DES Required courses (mentioned above), final results are generally worked out as a 50% class mark, 50% final exam mark. However, MELS always reserves the right to ignore the class mark if they deem the final exam mark too low. MELS also reserves the rights to scale final exam results up or down accordingly.

MELS indicated the following information regarding the Sec 4 Uniform Exams in Math and Science – June 2012: 1. The Uniform Exam is for Competency 2 only 2. The exam is worth 50% of the final mark of that competency only. Therefore, the exam affects a 35% weighting for the subject as a whole. (all competencies combined) 3. If the student receives a better mark on the Exam than on the class mark, the system attributes the Exam mark only for the final competency mark. Eg: Exam Mark: 70%, Class Mark: 68%, the final result for that competency will be 70%, no calculations will be applied. 4. If the student receives a better Class mark than exam mark, the system applies the 50% calculation for the final competency mark. Eg. Exam Mark: 71%, Class Mark: 75% then the 50-50 calculation will apply.

Sec 4 History only has 1 competency therefore the exam is worth 50% of the course final mark. As in the Math and Science courses, if the exam mark is higher than the class mark, it is used as the final mark for the subject.

The following is a video explaining how the MELS moderates or converts exam marks:

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This document has a list of all requirements through all all 3 Pathways:

The following document is regarding CEGEP entry requirements.

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Here is a list of new courses by CEGEP's and Adult Education Centres that will be able to be offered to students to improve particular subject areas that they had difficulty with in high school:

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and a table correlating them to the high school courses:

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