At the time, Alberta had not been created as a province yet and was part of the North-West Territories.
[3] It is because of this shared history that today, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut both take some of the Alberta exams.
This prompted Alberta Education to amend its policies regarding administering diploma examinations abroad.
[7][8] In 2015, the ministry reduced the Diploma exams weighting to make up 30% of course mark for 2015/2016 school year.
[9][10] In 2017, Alberta Education doubled students' allowed writing time for all provincial standardized tests.
The official Ministry of Education purpose of standardized testing is to: Grade twelve subjects for which there are diploma exams are:[15]