In certain cases such as engineering and teaching and life science degrees, the victory lap is instead attributed to increased course load and stress.
Elsewhere, in places that victory laps are not available to students, the slang term "Super senior" is a derogatory term for high schoolers who are held back a year due to personal failings, unintentionally, and as such spend one year longer to graduate than anyone else taking the same courseload would.
The term victory lap is used to refer to the additional years of secondary education a student may take in Ontario.
However, Patrick Brady and Philip Allingham of Lakehead University, has argued that the provincial government's attempt to bring Ontario in line with the rest of the continent's 12 grades system has only been partially successful.
They noted that the concept of students taking a fifth year of secondary school, colloquially known as the victory lap, was still viewed as a "provincial norm".