Challenge & Equivalency

Policy for Challenge

The challenge process assesses students' prior learning for the purpose of granting credit for Grade 10, 11 or 12 courses developed from provincial curriculum. All credits granted through this process must represent the same standards as credits granted to students who have taken the course. Assessment instruments for the challenge process will include formal testing (70% of the mark) along with a variety of other assessment strategies appropriate to the particular course as determined by the subject teacher and department head. Students must achieve a score of 86% or higher on the formal testing and on any project work required to be granted credit. Students may be interviewed (e.g. in French) to ensure they have the requisite skills to move on the next level. Students must provide proof of competency to the administration in a subject before they are granted the opportunity to challenge a course. The challenge process is an evaluation process and may not be used as a way for students to improve a mark in a course for which they have already earned credit, or as a way to obtain credit for a course they have previously failed. Our religion courses from grade 8-12 are not challengeable.

Policy for Equivalency

Students who are eligible for "equivalency " credits are generally those who transfer to St. Thomas More Collegiate from other schools outside of British Columbia. Equivalency credits are granted only by the school administrators. The administration will determine the total credit equivalency of the student's previous learning. The course that equivalency will be granted for must match 80% or more of the prescribed learning outcomes. Administrators will use the Handbook of Procedures Chapter 2 as a reference when determining equivalency along with documentation supplied by the student.

Revised September 2010