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senior matric

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

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ExampleMeaning
And of-course that meant much more freedom and study-hall so I read the comics and, you-know we chatted and I didn't do the studying I would have done if I'd been at home so I failed one subject, didn 't get my senior- matric 'cause back then it was senior-matriculation set by the province. Everybody- you could only graduate if you wrote that grade-thirteen exam and passed.
The completion of a five-year university-stream high school program (involving Grade 13, as opposed to a vocational- or college-streamed program, which would only go up to Grade 12).
ExampleMeaning
I had my junior matriculation and that's all that you went to- the only time you went and took grade-thirteen or senior matric is if you were going to university. And out of the class that I was in, at Runnymede, there would be about twenty of us and only two went to univesity. Very few people went to university.
The completion of a five-year university-stream high school program (involving Grade 13, as opposed to a vocational- or college-streamed program, which would only go up to Grade 12).