Option Form For Grade 12 2023

Please fill in this provisional option form for Grade 12 (Link below). However, you are hereby informed that the confirmed promotion of your son/daughter and subjects chosen by him/her will be subject to the following criteria.

CRITERIA FOR ADMISSION TO GRADE 12 – 2023

1.1 Students should NOT have reached the age of 19 on 1st June 2022

1.2 Students are not allowed to choose a subsidiary subject which they have chosen at principal level.

1.3 The school may not offer a subject if there are few students taking that subject.

1.4 The school may recommend a particular option depending on the student’s Cambridge SC results 2022.

Minimum qualifications requirements

Students should

Either have been awarded the School Certificate (SC) with at least a pass in English Language, and obtained a minimum of FIVE (5) credits at one and the same sitting;

Or have obtained at least Grade C at G.C.E. “O” level in a minimum of FIVE (5) subjects at one and the same sitting, with at least Grade E in English Language

Eligibility for subject combination at Principal Level

In addition to the above, students should hold a CREDIT at SC (or at least Grade C at GCE “O” Level) in each of the THREE (3) subjects they propose to offer at Principal Level.

Exceptional Case: Where a student has obtained SIX (6) credits (or Grade C at GCE “O” Level) at one and the same sitting, but has a pass (or Grade E at GCE “O” Level) in the third subject to be offered at Principal Level, he/she may exceptionally be allowed to offer the same subject at Principal Level. This does not, however, apply to English and Mathematics as per below.

>> Students wishing to offer Literature in English at Principal Level must have obtained at least a CREDIT in either English or Literature in English at SC or Grade C at GCE “O” Level.

>> Students wishing to offer Mathematics at Principal Level must have obtained either a CREDIT in Mathematics or Additional Mathematics at SC or Grade C at GCE “O” Level.

Students who have a CREDIT at SC or Grade “C” at GCE “O” Level in –

  • BUSINESS STUDIES are eligible to offer Business and either Economics or Accounting at Principal Level.
  • ACCOUNTING are eligible to offer Accounting and Business at Principal Level.
  • ECONOMICS are eligible to offer Economics and Business at Principal Level.
  • COMMERCE or COMMERCIAL STUDIES are eligible to offer Business at Principal Level.
  • ENTERPRISE are eligible to offer Business at Principal Level
  • ENTERPRISE and MATHEMATICS are eligible to offer Economics and/or Accounting at Principal Level

Students may offer any ONE of the following:

  • Islamic Studies
  • Sociology

at Principal Level although they have not studied the subjects listed above up to SC/GCE “O” Level provided they hold credits in the two other subjects to be offered at Principal Level.

  1. STATE OF MAURITIUS SCHOLARSHIP

PART 1

GENERAL PAPER

PART II

At Subsidiary Level, any one subject which may be offered at Subsidiary Level at the Cambridge Higher School Certificate Examination, and which is included in the school course provided by the school at which the candidate is a student, but which has not already been offered under Part III.

PART III

SECTION A – ARTS SIDE

At Principal Level, three subjects, being subjects included in the school course provided by the school at which the candidate is a student, to be chosen from the following:

*Literature in English, French, Arabic, Islamic Studies, Mathematics or Further Mathematics, Sociology, Art & Design.

SECTION B – SCIENCE SIDE

At Principal Level, three subjects, being subjects included in the school course provided by the school at which the candidate is a student, to be chosen from the following:

Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Biology.

SECTION C – ECONOMICS SIDE

At Principal Level, three subjects, being subjects included in the school course provided by the school at which the candidate is a student to be chosen as follows:

  • Economics and
  • Two of the following subjects:

Mathematics, Accounting, Business Studies, Sociology, Computer Science and one of the Languages listed in Section A or Literature in English or a Science subject.

SECTION D – TECHNICAL SIDE

At Principal Level, three subjects, being subjects included in the school course provided by the school at which the candidates is a student, to be chosen from sections (i) and (ii) and including at least one subject from each section:

  • Design & Technology, Art & Design (including component 4 – Coursework), Food Studies.
  • Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Biology

CLICK HERE TO FILL IN THE OPTION FORM FOR GRADE 12 2023 AT LATEST BY THURSDAY 19/01/23 NOON