Getting Great Grades

Understanding how your work is marked is the first step towards getting great grades.

You can take some of the mystery out of marking by learning what teachers look for when they review your work. Here are some of the tools they use:

Exemplars are samples of actual student work at different grade levels - with teacher comments explaining how grades were arrived at. Visit the curriculum pages to see exemplars for different subjects.

Is the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) in your future? Here's help for students from the people who run it.