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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.

  • 1945  . . . the cadet's course [is] equivalent to Senior Matriculation. . . .
  • 1946  In Ontario, where the "honours Courses" of the Universities exerted an influence present nowhere else, high schools gave a sound education and had already built up their courses to five years for "senior" matriculation.
  • 1964  Requirements for grades vary from province to province . . . some provinces have junior and senior matriculation, some do not.