Ontario students have occasionally taken advantage of this to skip out on their non academic graduation requirements.

We Just assume that at absolute minimum you got a 70 average and completed 5 university prep courses you probably graduated.

Since less than half our students are from Nova Scotia the admission’s office has a hard job. 13 inconsistent education systems just in Canada.

We have no actual requirement to finish high school, just required corses with minimum mark thresholds and minimum required overall averages for each program.

I think this is a left over from Ontario’s grade 13, where we would admit Ontarian students who had only completed grade 12.

Also most Canadian Universities de facto make admission decisions based on grade 11 marks. Admissions opens in September and most students have applied before January exams.
Offers go out ASAP as to not loose students.

We had provincial exams in Nova Scotia grade 12 but our teachers marked them, then our names were cut off and they were sent to the province to be regraded for statistics. So they were not really standardized exams.

Not really comparable to SATs or let alone the standardized test used in China.

The method of dealing with no standardization is not having very selective universities, then let students rise or flunk out based on how well they do in their selected topic at university.

I’m Canadian. But yes Oil and Gas have too much power here too, balanced somewhat by Hydro-Quebec and BC hydro.

The conservative premier of my province is obsessed with building enormous off shore wind farms.

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Yeah definitely a weird choice. I think they were trying to give a sense of how much energy needed 2 TWh is. But a rough conversion to megatons of TNT is a choice.