Abbreviations
By the numbers
Programs and courses
What's missing?
PJ/JI facts
100
OST
What is Ontario Student Transcript?
100
The number of community service hours a student must complete in order to earn their Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD).
What is 40?
100
A course offered partially or entirely online would be part of this program.
What is e-learning?
100
Course types in Grades 9 and 10: academic, ___________, open.
What is applied?
100
The age at which a student is required to start kindergarten.
What is 6?
200
OSSC
What is Ontario Secondary School Certificate?
200
The number of optional credits, out of a total of 30, required to earn an OSSD.
What is 12?
200
All Ontario curriculum courses and locally developed courses may be offered through this experiential mode of delivery.
What is cooperative education?
200
All subjects in which 1 course credit is required: arts, Canadian history, French as a second language, health and physical education, ________________.
What is Canadian geography?
200
What a student in Grade 8 who is "reaching ahead" does.
What is takes secondary school courses prior to entering Grade 9?
300
PLAR
What is Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition?
300
The number of course types/streams offered in Grade 11 and 12 (not including locally developed).
What is 5 (U, M, C, W, O)?
300
A program designed to help a student obtain credit for a course which they completed, but did not pass.
What is credit recovery?
300
Requirements to obtain a secondary school diploma: credits, community involvement, __________.
What is the literacy requirement?
300
The authority responsible for distributing information about secondary schools to Grade 8 students.
What is the school board?
400
OAC
What is Ontario Academic Credit?
400
The number of hours required for a one-credit course.
What is 110?
400
This course can be used to meet either the Grade 11 or 12 compulsory English credit requirement.
What is the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course (OSSLC)?
400
Ways of meeting the literacy requirement: OSSLT, OSSLC, __________.
What is the adjudication process?
400
In Grade 7, students use this plan to track the growth of their career development competencies and plan for their futures.
What is the Individual Pathways Plan (IPP)?
500
ASD
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
500
In order to be officially considered a "textbook," any combination of print, electronic, and non-print materials must be used to support this percentage of the course expectations.
What is 85%?
500
The things that are "combined" in combined courses. (Hint: there are two answers.)
What are grade and type?
500
Languages of instruction and programming: English, French, __________.
What is American Sign Language (ASL)?
500
How students' grades are reported on the report card in Grades 7-8.
What are percentage marks?
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