Provincial Examinations

Grade 10, 11 and 12 Provincial Examination Rewrites

Rewrites

Schools are responsible for registering you for exam sessions during the school year. Discuss your rewrite options with your school counsellor.

  • If you are enrolled in the 2004 80-credit program, you may rewrite a provincial exam once within the 12-month period following the first attempt at the examination. The Ministry will use whichever exam result is higher and blend it with your school mark.

To rewrite a provincial exam more than once, you must retake the course. If you retake the course before you rewrite for the first time, you cannot carry over the first rewrite opportunity. Once you take the course again you can write the exam, then rewrite the exam once within the following twelve months. For further information, please refer to Rewrites in the Handbook of Procedures.

If you retake a course and you are satisfied with your previous exam mark, you do not have to rewrite the provincial exam (providing you retake the course within twelve months of writing the exam for the first time).

Students who wish to review their exam responses for the purposes of making a rewrite decision may request an exam review.

Rewrites in the August Exam Session

If you choose to rewrite a Grade 12 exam in August you will be writing it at one of the August Exam Centres. Grade 10, 11 or BC First Nations Studies 12 provincial exams are offered in August and must be pre-registered through your school or district. Ask your school's counselor or principal in June for August exam information (e.g., if your district is offering August exams, where the exams will be written and when to pre-register). The August exam schedule is included in the Handbook of Procedures.

If a school district offers summer school in an examinable Grade 10, 11 or BC First Nations Studies 12 course, you must be pre-registered by the summer school and will be advised by the summer school as to where to write your exam.

Results for August Grade 10, 11 and 12 exam results are issued to students and schools via Student Secure Web at the end of the first week in September. There are no exceptions for providing the August results earlier than this date.

The results from the August exams are not available for September post-secondary institutions' admission decisions.