In Canada, for people who have gone through public school here, their access to a university/college depends on their performance in grade 8 (age 13-14), not in grade 12. This filters a lot of Canadians who actually had academic potential, while foreign students aren't burdened by the same standards when coming to study here.

Does this happen in your country?

No, it depends entirely on your grades (which you can always retake as an adult) and SAT equivalent psychometric test

>>212481617 (OP)
the most painful shit about that is that even though they are trying to move away from this system they'll NEVER reparate ppl who were negatively affected by it lol. an entire generation of canadians are undereducated and burdened
>>212481803
your grades in high school don't matter here if you were placed in -2 or lower after grade 8 and for adults who were in -3 or lower they don't have to repeat 4 years of high school... they have to repeat EIGHT years of high school while holding a full time job, it's just not possible

>>212481617 (OP)
>>212481866
What the actual fuck are you talking about right now ?

>>212481617 (OP)
Yes. Many people end up spending years and thousands of kroner retaking subjects or taking elective subjects required to qualify for certain academic programmes. We could easily have solved this problem by just copying Sweden and creating our own version of the SweSAT, but of course Norwegian politicians (and students!) hate efficient and simple solutions like that.

>>212481906
You were probably placed in -1
Some provinces don't have this system
Alberta does

I'm not sure what province you live in but in Ontario literally only your last year of high school matters for university. You could barley pass from grades 1 through 11 and then pull some top tier grades out of your ass in grade 12 courses and go to a top school

>>212481617 (OP)
Take that Alberta cuck

>>212481906
I don't know either to be honest. I'm guessing this guy was a moron in middle school so they put him in locally developed classes in high school instead of academic ones.

Albertans are being punished by god for homophobia and this is it

>>212481997
I did this

>>212482055
I didn't do my homework and I had an attitude. My teacher placed me in the lowest stream and my parents didn't understand this at the time because they didn't have such a system when they were in school. That's it.
In high school I actually did university level Spanish, because that's possible while also doing lowest English, SS, science and math, and I in fact won a scholarship to study Spanish at university because I was the top student in Spanish. They invited me to Awards Night and awarded me with a scholarship on stage in front of everyone.
Later they canceled it when they realized I'm not eligible to go to university and gave it to the next best Spanish student. Apparently, this had never happened before, so they made their first and last mistake of the sort, with me.