To get your OSSD you need:
- 18 compulsory credits (courses you must take and successful complete, see chart)
- 12 optional credits (courses you get to choose from available courses)
- 40 hours of community involvement activities
- The provincial secondary school literacy requirement
Compulsory Credits
| 4 | English (1 credit per grade) |
| 3 | Mathematics (at least 1 credit in Grade 11 or 12) |
| 2 | Science |
| 1 | French as a Second Language |
| 1 | Canadian History |
| 1 | Canadian Geography |
| 1 | The Arts |
| 1 | Health and Physical Education |
| .5 | Civics |
| .5 | Career Studies |
| Plus ONE credit from each of these three groups: | |
| 1 | Group 1: 1 additional credit in English or French as a Second Language**, or a Native language, or a classical or an international language, or social sciences and the humanities (family studies, philosophy, world religions), or Canadian and world studies, or guidance and career education, or cooperative education***
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| 1 | Group 2: 1 additional credit in health and physical education, or the arts, or business studies, or French as a Second Language**, or cooperative education***
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| 1 | Group 3: 1 additional credit in science (Grade 11 or 12) or technological education (Grades 9 to 12), or French as a Second Language**, or computer studies, or cooperative education***
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