COVID-19 Updates: Taking steps to return to normal.
- Public health restrictions: Alberta entered Step 2 on March 1.
- Book your vaccine: Albertans 5+ can get it now. Get third dose when eligible.
COVID-19 Updates: Taking steps to return to normal.
Resources to help students prepare to write diploma exams and information for exam administrators.
2021/22 diploma exam update
The Grade 12 Diploma Examinations Program has 3 main purposes:
Find out more about Diploma exams.
Diploma exams are expected to be administered for the rest of the school year (April, June and August 2022).
Students who were intending to rewrite a diploma exam in January 2022 and are not taking the course can register to rewrite in April 2022.
Students who received an exemption and retake instruction in a diploma exam course must write the diploma exam to acquire a final official mark associated with the new school-awarded mark. Exemptions are not carried forward.
Retroactive exemptions will not be provided to students who wrote diploma exams earlier this school year or in previous school years.
All fees paid for the January 2022 diploma exams will be refunded. Refunds will be issued in March 2022.
This change is only temporary to address the learning disruptions that some students have experienced due to COVID-19.
The expectation for what students must learn remains the same.
The same processes used to develop high-quality diploma exams worth 30% are being used to develop diploma exams worth 10%.
The teacher, as well as the diploma exam, address outcomes from the same program of studies and are both expected to apply appropriate achievement standards.
Adult students can still challenge the diploma exams and the process for this will not change.
The Government of Alberta is working with post-secondary institutions to ensure admission decisions are sensitive to the unique circumstances of this school year.
This change in weighting may apply to students who opted-out of writing diploma exams for courses taken in 2020/21 and are now writing them in the 2021/22 school year.
If students are retaking a diploma exam course or rewriting a diploma exam in the 2021/22 school year, they may also be eligible for the temporary weighting in certain situations.
Read the Diploma Exam Weighting Overview (PDF, 324 KB) for examples of how this weighting change will be applied in certain situations.
Was this page helpful?
You will not receive a reply. Do not enter any personal information such as telephone numbers, addresses, or emails.
Your submissions are monitored by our web team and are used to help improve the experience on Alberta.ca. If you require a response, please go to our Contact page.