Certification from Upper Secondary School

Certification
General Upper Secondary School graduates are awarded a title called General Upper Secondary School Leaving Certificate (Apolytirio). This is issued once by the school attended by the pupil and does not change. It includes information on the final mark, as well as analytical scores that the student has achieved in different subjects.
Holders of an Upper Secondary School Leaving Certificate are presented with the following possibilities:

• To pursue their studies in Tertiary Education if they manage to get the marks required for the Faculty of their preference; this results from the performance at school level and the marks they obtain in the exams at national level (pan-Hellenic exams).
• To enroll in Vocational Training Institutes to obtain specialization.
• To take part in competitions for their recruitment in the public or private sector.
• To join the labor market without specialization.

Those who receive an Upper Secondary School Apolytirion without having participated in the Pan-Hellenic exams, have the right to access Higher Education only if they take the required written exams of the last year lessons conducted on a Pan-Hellenic level, any other year except the year of their graduation.