High School Diploma Equivalent

Certification when leaving the school is an academic reward for qualification for completing the study at high school. In the country, the certification is known with different kind of names depending on the specific names given by the authorities in various parts of the country, like they can be known as a senior certificate, high school diploma, certificate of education, or school certificate. These are amongst some of the popular names for the same. In order to be rewarded with the high school diploma certification, different requirements are instituted by various schools in the various regions/parts of the country. Like for an instance, in some school student's need to study one foreign language at the least, whereas in some schools this is not the compulsion.

High school diploma tends to offer a wide range of academic and life experiences which are not limited to the boundaries of the classroom. High school diploma involves a different kind of extracurricular activities regarding community-based activities which enhance the overall experience of the student.

History of High School diploma and its methodology/style

In the early times, when the high school diplomas were introduced they were made of the skin the leather which is used as a paper and not much durable. The skin of the animal was processed with hands and the diploma was handwritten with a specific ink. Later on, parchments were used instead of the skin. In the earlier times, the diplomas were quite big in sizes but with the time diploma and its standardisation has improved, and now the diploma has the size of A4 paper which we use in the letters. There are subsequently many differences by which the diplomas have been conferred on the students. In the earlier times traditionally, the diplomas were rolled out and seal with the help of ribbon, and later on, they were being placed in the wood or leather round elongated cases. With time the diplomas have been conferred using the glass or plastic frame to make them easier to handle. In many graduation ceremonies, a blank paper is given to the students and on the later time on specified date degrees are sent via postal services.

Different requirements to achieve the high school diploma

There are different kinds of requirements when it comes to conferring diplomas to the students. Many of the schools in countries have built a format of specific tests and on passing the final tests, they tend to confer the diploma to the students. In some countries, school tend to form their own guidelines and methods due to which they confer diploma to the student, this kind of individual methodology of requirements happens mostly in the private schools. Regardless of the evolution of time, there have been a lot of changes in the standard requirements by schools in different countries in order to confer the high school diploma. There is till now not any universal standard requirement to receive the high school diploma.

In the USA, the majority of the states has a standardisation test format which each student needs to pass in order to get the diploma of graduation from the school. Of course, the curriculum and extracurricular activity are different in different states and their schools. In some of the states like Florida, uses A-level test program to test the proficiency of the student in the particular subject. There are some strict rules in the requirement subsections like, the students who complete all their classes rightly but are not able to clear the standardised test are not eligible to get the diploma from high school and thereby are not regarded as the graduates. In this case, they are conferred with the certification of attending the school but not the certification of graduating from the school.

At the worldwide level, there are different overall criteria for receiving the high school diploma, although in the many states it has been debated that whether there is a need for these standard tests.

High school diploma is a matter of fact that the student has been academically present, and it proves the success of initial years of the academic career of school. It concludes that the student has cleared the base level of the education and is ready to move to the next step.