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It is usually spring. A conditional offer or an application requirement needs a senior English mark by a fixed date. A student needs ENG4U, and the school cannot timetable it in time.
Ontario offers three Grade 11 university-preparation sciences. Each one is the gate to its Grade 12 counterpart, and each asks for a different kind of thinking.
Homeschool families come to an online Ontario school for two different reasons, and it helps to separate them.
Search results for this question offer confident numbers. Most of them are wrong, and the reason is structural: the time to complete an OSSD is not a property of the programme. It is a…
HSB4U — Challenge and Change in Society, Grade 12, University Preparation — investigates how societies change, why some groups resist change and how social scientists study both. Students…
Search for this question and you will find two unhelpful answers: that the OSSD is easy, and that it is a shortcut around harder systems. Both are marketing, and both mislead the students who…
MCR3U — Functions, Grade 11, University Preparation — is the quiet gatekeeper of an Ontario STEM application. Students rarely search for it by name until something goes wrong.
Students and families often use "my mark" as though it meant one thing. In an application it means at least two, and confusing them causes real problems.
The Ontario Secondary School Diploma requires 30 credits, 40 hours of community involvement — and the literacy requirement. These are separate obligations. A student can hold every credit…
