Graduation Requirements

Dogwood Diploma - Grad Requirements at a glance:

The B.C. Certificate of Graduation or "Dogwood Diploma" is awarded to students who successfully complete the provincial graduation requirements.

Students require a minimum of 80 credits to graduate.

Of these 80 credits:

• At least 16 credits must be at the Grade 12 level, including a required Language Arts 12
• At least 28 credits must be elective course credits 
• 52 credits are required from the following: 
• Career-Life Education (4 credits), and Career-Life Connections  + Capstone (4 credits) 
• Physical and Health Education 10 (4 credits)
• Science 10 (4 credits), and a Science 11 or 12 (4 credits)
• Social Studies 10 (4 credits), and a Social Studies 11 or 12 (4 credits)
• A Math 10 (4 credits), and a Math 11 or 12 (4 credits)
• A Language Arts 10, 11 and a required 12 (12 credits total)
• An Arts Education 10, 11, or 12 and/or an Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 10, 11, or 12 (4 credits total) 

In addition, students must also complete three new graduation assessments:

• The Grade 10 Graduation Numeracy Assessment was introduced in 2018
• The Grade 10 Graduation Literacy Assessment will be introduced in 2019/20
• The New Grade 12 Graduation Literacy Assessment will be introduced in 2020/21 

Note on Language Arts 12 exams: Students graduating in the 2018/19 school year will not write a literacy assessment. They will write the course-based Language Arts 12 provincial exam. 

Note on Career Life Education: 

For 2019/20 and beyond, the following career education courses will be used in all BC schools:

• Career Life Education
• Career Life Connections + Capstone