The Upper Secondary School in Sweden

When you’re 16 years old and have graduated from 9^th grade of elementary school you’re ready for the next grade of school in Sweden – the so called "gymnasium"(Upper Secondary School). There are a variety of different programmes you can choose before starting the 3 years of "gymnasium". During the last semester in 9^th grade of elementary school you make a couple of applications to the programmes you’re interested in. Some programmes are more popular than others. It is the grades from 9^th grade of elementary school that determines whether you make in it or not. Fortunately you have multiple applications to different programmes, so if you don’t make it with your first choice, you’ve always got a second and a third.

Last year the "gymnasium"-school changed, so we are the first pupils who experience this “new” "gymnasium". Some of the changes are:

· A new system of grades (A-F).

· Some programmes are gone, while some are new.

· Within the programmes, the courses have changes by a bit.

Made by: Nils, Gustav, Anton