Ontario is called Ontario (ON) for short, and the credit system is adopted in secondary education. After graduating from high school, students will receive the Ontario High School Diploma (OSSD). In order to obtain OSSD in ON province, students must complete 18 compulsory credits and 12 elective credits, totaling 30 credits, complete 40 hours of community participation activities, and pass the provincial literacy requirements (OSSLT) exam.
18 compulsory credit courses include:
4 English credits, English grades 1 credits, such as Grade 9 English, 10 English, 165438 English, 12 English. Among them, ESL credits for foreign students may also be counted as four compulsory English credits, but at most they can only be counted as three compulsory reading in ESL languages.
3 math credits
Two science credits
1 Canadian history credits
1 Canadian geography credits
1 art credits
1 health and physical education credits
1 French as a second language credit (international students can choose Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. As a second language credit course)
0.5 Vocational research credits
0.5 Civic Education Credit
Generally speaking, the required courses for 18 credits include English, mathematics, natural science, history, geography, art, computer foundation, health and physical education, career research, civics and so on.
12 optional credits
There are a series of elective courses, which will be different in different schools. Mainly divided into the following general directions:
A. Business direction: generally including business, finance, accounting, statistics, economics, international business, commercial law, consumer studies and other courses.
B. natural science direction: physics, chemistry, biology, advanced mathematics and its branches, computer language, computer, biology, etc.
C. artistic direction: drama, painting, visual art, photography, design, etc.
D. Social science direction: sociology, anthropology, humanities and various historical disciplines.
E. technical direction: auto repair, beauty salon, gardening, electrical appliance maintenance, woodworking, metal materials, house maintenance, etc.
When studying in a middle school in ON province, Canada, children usually need to complete the above credits within four years (grade 9 to 12) to obtain OSSD, in which the first two years (grade 9, 10) mainly study relatively simple and easy courses; In the second two years after entering middle school (grade 1 1- 12), the difficulty of the course will gradually increase, and students will also prepare for their study after graduation according to their own interest goals and learning conditions. Students who intend to apply for university will choose a more coherent course in grade 1 1. In this way, it will be easier to apply for a university after entering the 12 level.