All pupils, who have received the relevant teaching and passed the prescribed examinations, can continue in an upper secondary programme more or less of their own choice.
The programme leading to the HF-examination[3] is intended to be a course of general education preparing adults and young people for further studies.
The HF-examination qualifies the candidate for admission to higher education, subject to the restrictions appearing from the regulations laid down to this effect.
The instruction in the individual class is coordinated with a view to achieving coherence between the various subjects and a suitable distribution of the students' workload.
The instruction in the individual class must be co-ordinated to ensure coherence between the subjects and a suitable distribution of the students' workload.
The students receive progress reports and grades throughout the two years and a final end-of-year or end-of-term examination is given in each subject of study.
Another important difference from the Gymnasium is that a complete HF-examination requires an examination in all subjects (except for visual arts, PE and sport and music at common core level).
Oral examinations are held in subjects selected (at random) by the Department of General Upper Secondary Education for each individual school.
For each subject, there is a permanent group of external examiners made up from teachers - with 5% of the members from other sectors of the education system or from industry.