Promotion from 3 havo and 3 vwo

Updated on: June 30, 2025

Topics for this chapter

7.1
7.4
7.8

Principles

  • Final grades on the report card are based on the moving year average and are rounded to whole numbers.
  • A final grade or qualification (physical education only) is given for each subject on the class schedule, with the exception of Cambridge Pro.
  • Subject Group I: Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, Greek, history, geography, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, economics, drawing.
  • Subject group II: physical education

 

The following criteria apply for promotion from 3 havo and 3 vwo:

  • All final grades of the subjects in subject group I are 6 or higher.

or

  • One final grade of a subject in subject group I is a 5 and the remaining final grades of the subjects in subject group I are 6 or higher.

or

  • The final grades for the subjects in subject group I are 1 x 4 or 2 x 5 or 1 x 5 and 1 x 4 and the other final grades are 6 or higher and the average of all final grades for the subjects in subject group I is at least 6.0. For the subjects Dutch, English and mathematics no more than one 5 may be obtained as final grade.
  • The course in subject group II must be completed with "met.

 

Additions

A student who does not meet the transition standards is eligible for consideration if raising one of the final grades by 1 point would meet the transition standards.

A student in 3 Gymnasium who is rejected for 4 Gymnasium can be promoted to 4 Athenaeum. The final grades for Latin and Greek do not count.

A student in 3 vwo who is rejected for 4 vwo may be promoted to 4 havo. The meeting may also decide that parents and student may choose between promoting to the havo department or doubling in the vwo department.

If a student from the havo department wishes to be promoted to the vwo department, the promotion meeting will decide on admission. The parent(s)/guardian(s) of the student in question may make their wish known in writing to the conrector of guidance.