Canadian Home schooling University preparation?

Question

- So, if you are home schooling your children, how do they prepare themselves for University requirements?

- Is it best to just enrol them in high school at say grade 10 so they can establish a GPA for a few years prior to graduation?

- Or is it better/easier for them to do some kind of equivalency tests in order to enter University (that sounds like it would be more difficult as tests would be all lumped together, while three years of school would be spread out)?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I only know about how things work here in Alberta. It could be similar elsewhere.

To enter university here, a student simply needs to have the credits for certain grade 12 courses. You can get high school credits as you go along or can challenge the grade 12 course then do the diploma exam to have a final mark. This means you would only have a GPA or final marks for grade 12 subjects which does mean you wouldn't be eligible for certain scholarships and you won't have a diploma, but it doesn't affect your entrance into university because they don't look at anything other than the grade 12 courses.

There are no equivalency tests here. You do the work and the diploma exam or you don't have a mark for that course. It's as simple as that.

What is best will depend on the student. Some feel it's easiest to just send the kids to school; others prefer doing it all at home and feel it's best to have the flexibility that doing it at home brings. Either way, the kids are doing the work. Some work to get enough credits to get a diploma; others just work for the credits they need for university.

Others even take a different route and go through colleges which don't require any specific courses and do a portfolio and interview. They don't go for credit and don't necessarily follow the provincial program of studies at all.

hth

Answer 3

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