Subjects from upper secondary education in the lower secondary school

In the lower secondary school you may be offered the opportunity to take common core subjects and programme subjects from upper secondary education that build on subjects from lower secondary education if you are qualified to do so.

If this is relevant for you, you will normally be given exemption from the remaining periods in the corresponding subject(s) in the lower secondary school. If exemption is not given for enough periods, you can use the periods for elective subjects and up to 60 % of the subject Choice of education (68 of 113 periods) for subjects from upper secondary education. It may also be relevant to take subjects from upper secondary education in addition to the corresponding subjects from lower secondary. How this kind of teaching is to be organised, is decided by the individual school.

Even though you are exempted from lessons in subjects you take in advance, you are to be given an overall achievement grade in the lower secondary school and you can be selected to sit the examination in the 10th grade. However, it is also possible to finish a subject from lower secondary education withan overall achievement grade and, if relevant, an examination grade earlier than the 10th grade. You are to have an overall achievement grade in the subject(s) you take in upper secondary education, and you may also be selected for the examination. 

An option to take subjects from upper secondary education in advance must be offered in collaboration between the lower secondary and the upper secondary schools. No lower secondary pupils have the right to this kind of teaching. You may also take subjects from upper secondary education as an external candidate while you attend the lower secondary school.

Please note that you have no right to continue with subjects you took in the lower secondary school when you start Vg1.

From the autumn of 2015, if you have taken subjects from upper secondary education at the lower secondary school you will be able to take the same subject once more as a pupil at an upper secondary school.