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senior matriculation

• n. icertain provinces, the successful completion of a secondary-school course (usually including an extra year of study) satisfying the requirements for university entrance.

  See also: junior matriculation  

  • A distinction between senior and junior matriculation used to be more widespread in Canada than it is now. Senior matriculation sometimes entailed a twelfth year of schooling, as it used to in Alberta, and sometimes a thirteenth year, as it still does in Ontario.