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OAC

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

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ExampleMeaning
Have you taken accounting? I'm like, "No." She's like, "Have you taken business?" I'm like, "In grade ten, in French." She's like, "Have you taken math?" I'm like, "Yeah I took math." She's like, "Good. High-school math?" I'm like, "Yeah." She's like, "O-A-C math?" I'm like, "Yeah, even university math." She's like, "Okay then, can you start Monday? You got the job." I'm like, "Wow, this is great!" And they pay really well.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
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Interviewer: So you got a lot of attention? Speaker: Yeah, and I got to really know the teachers really well. And it 's just the spirit and the community and everyone was really friendly. It went from J-K to O-A-C so then I got to meet a lot of people who were younger than me like in grade five, six, and seven cause I really like getting along with kids. Um, they're really fun.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
Interviewer: Did you get involved in a lot of activities cause it was- like it's a small community right? Speaker: Oh um, it's small, like the school's only nine-hundred people even though it goes from J-K to gra-- to O-A-C, but I think that their opportunities are tremendous. Like they have so many things, so many clubs, over forty clubs and um, every single sport like even rowing and tennis, and golf, and then there's like swimming, badminton, basketball, volleyball.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
Oh, uh, basically cause that was the only thing I could get into at U-of-T if I wanted to major in something. Um, I wasn't really keen on the sciences like I liked biology- eleven that I took and I took chemistry up to O-A-C, but it wasn't really something that I enjoyed and it was really challenging for me so I'd have difficulties.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
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Interviewer: but I regret it 'cause it seemed like everybody was a part of it and it was something that everybody participated in Speaker: well yeah but not everyone, right but it got neat by O-A-C because then you had the music wing, right, your lockers were there, that's neat, bu-- personally I-mean I was a part of it but I never really got into it
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
Speaker: but it was nice just to be part of that wing and then you had the courtyard to Interviewer: yep Speaker: to yourself and a lot of people just hanging out, skipping classes to play cards and- but, um for me it was nothing special just because by O-A-C I was already very bored, I thought was eager just to go onto university already, meet new people, and-stuff, but ah so I worked at a cafeteria for a bit.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
Interviewer: So like if there was somebody from your group and they wanted to go out on a date with someone from another group, it wasn't Speaker: oh yeah no you wouldn't even think twice, yeah no not at all and that's something, you-know it wasn't until O-A-C you that noticed oh yeah like these guys kind-of make up a group a segment of the population there
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
Speaker: so you'd be hanging out with whoever else had a spare Interviewer: yeah Speaker: yeah and that's mostly- for me I would either go to the library and do um some work, right, do homework or-whatever or just sit by my locker and chat, actually by O-A-C we sat in the auditorium right because the wing is right there, music wing, and we hung out with that David-guy that played the piano
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
Speaker: ... we hung out with that David-guy that played the piano Interviewer: oh yeah yeah Speaker: who was a year younger but he happened to have a spare then and he was a bit of a loner so I think he likes kind-of hanging Interviewer: right Speaker: with the O-A-C girls and he was an incredible piano player so we 'd tell a song or he'd listen to my walkman and then he'd be able to play it on the piano
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
Speaker: and that was my lowest grade Geography, I thought it was so mean and then but my the time I got to grade-twelve and O-A-C, you kind-of got to know him Interviewer: right Speaker: and I just- you-know you learn things about people that change your perspective and he it turns out would adopt children with disabilities
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
Speaker: she just started talking in baby-talk, which I thought was a little odd, I was very frustrated because by O-A-C you'd like to have high grades and I don't know, that bugged me a little Interviewer: I understand Speaker: yeah yeah that was frustrating but I think she just didn't want to change 'cause the grades were in and-whatever but that was irritating
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: You were involved in the double cohort. Speaker: Yes I was. Interviewer: How do you feel about that? Speaker: Um, didn't really bother me that much. It- the only thing actually I think the competition it was a lot more--I think that in other years, the O-A-C's had an easier time-not easier time but there wasn't as much stress on them having to do good 'cause there was only their grade.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
... I found the work to be pretty much the same but like um there was a lot more stress like you had to compete with like twice as many people and now even in university um I think the only course that's really bothering me in Calculus because the O-A-C Calculus they did integration and trig but the grade twelve it was in our curriculum but we didn't really do it. So but we didn't start that yet like it starts next term. But the O-A-C's probably have an unfair advantage there.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
Chana's okay Chana was a really close friend of my sister. My sister met her in grade seven grade seven eight and like they were close friends up until grade eleven ten eleven twelve no- up until O-A-C. They were like, close friends, like I would say almost best-friends like Chana would be at my house all-the-time ...
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
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Speaker: ... bused again to a different high-school which was still in Mississauga but quite outside of my- my own regular, um, area, ah, for grade-nine to I- thirteen, 'cause they still had the- the thirteen when I was in high-school. Interviewer: Right, right. Speaker: Um, and- er, no! It was already O-A-C at that time, but um- yeah an-- because it was- a lot of us were bused in for that program, it was- it was again a real mix and this high-school I went to, because it went from (...) I 'm sorry, it went from seven to thirteen!
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
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Um, but I remember in high-school, he had to give a presentation in O-A-C in Kiniseology and his- he had never known I 'd been- told all of his teachers in high-school to- he never knew that. And his Kiniseology teacher, he did this phenomenal presentation, phenomenal, and she phoned me like right after to tell me it was so professional.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
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Um, I think um, at the end of grade-twelve, um, I was ready for another year. I- I needed another year. Um, but by O-A-C I was really kind of tired of it. It was like, "I've done this before." Doing the same monotonous like, homework and essays and routine and that kind of thing, you-know, it was getting a little much, so-
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
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Interviewer: Is it a eight to twelve or-? Speaker: Uh y-- uh grade-seven through what I guess was- would be O-A-C or however they've changed that now. Interviewer: It's just twelve now I guess yeah. Speaker: Yeah yeah. Um and they- they can- I don't know what they're doing now but they- they combined it ...
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
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... he was an anti-social and had not one friend. Um I didn't do my O-A-Cs I couldn't at that time I just mentally and emotionally was not there. I wasn't able to. I tried doing one O-A-C and I ended up dropping it just because I- I couldn't give a shit about school at that time. Like I- I wanted to pass I wanted my diploma but I just- I just didn't care about learning math and calculus and stuff-like-that ...
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
ExampleMeaning
But at the time I graduated from high-school I didn't have any O-A-C-s so I couldn't go straight to University so actually I- the course I took yeah it was called, ah, Early-Childhood- Education and so it was- this was like a- I had to take that and use that as a stepping- stone to get into- to get into University and make up for not having the O- the O-A-C credits. But that never materialized.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.