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Requirements for the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) under OSIS, 1984–1999
Note: The following table and all of the notes are taken from and refer to Ontario Schools, Intermediate and Senior Divisions (Grades 7–12/OACs): Program and Diploma Requirements, 1989 (OSIS).
Students who began their secondary school program between 1984 and the beginning of the 1999–2000 school year* may work towards the OSSD under OSIS or OS/OSS.
minimum number of credits
Notes
For an OSSD including, within this total, the following:
30
Students may choose to take more than 30 credits, especially students who are incorporating OACs into their programs.
In required subjects:
• English (or français)
• French as a second language
(or anglais)
• mathematics
• science
• Canadian geography
• Canadian history
• additional social science (Senior)
• arts
• business studies or technological studies
• physical and health education
5
1
2 2 1 1
1 } 1
• The listing of subjects under areas of study no longer applies. • The principal may grant a substitution for up to 2 compulsory
credits, and up to 4 compulsory credits for students identified as exceptional.
The 5 compulsory credits in English (or français) will include at least 2 credits from Grade 11, 12, and/or OACs.
See Appendix B in OSIS, 1989, for further information.
* In this document the school year is considered as beginning on September 1 of one year and ending on August 31 of the following year.
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