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April 7, 2025

Information on Provincial Assessments

April 7th -11th, 2025 Assessment Student Information                                                                             

Your supervising teacher will provide you with more instructions on the day of the assessment

  1. Please load the website: https://bced.vretta.com/#/en/bced-landing/grad/secure
  2. Select School District “New Westminster (40)” – Do NOT select Independent Schools
  3. Input your “Personal Education Number (PEN)”
  4. Your supervising teacher will provide you with the “Session Password

One of the many British Columbia graduation requirements include the need to complete Provincial Assessments.  Students must write the following Provincial Assessments to graduate: 

  1. Graduation Literacy Assessment 10 (GLA 10)
  2. Graduation Numeracy Assessment 10 (GNA 10)
  3. Graduation Literacy Assessment 12 (GLA 12)
  4. Évaluation de littératie de la 12e année – Français langue secondeimmersion (for French Immersion Program students only)

Assessment Details 

  • Assessments are cross-curricular and stand-alone (not tied to a specific course).
  • The exams are two hours long with up to an extra hour if needed.  There is no extra time if students are late.
  • Assessments are scored on a proficiency scale:

Assessment Schedule  

This year graduation assessments will be written at New Westminster Secondary School on the following dates:

  • April 2025 Administration:  Monday April 7th to Friday April 11th, 2025
  • June 2025 Administration:  Monday, June 2nd to Friday June 6th, 2025

Students and parents/guardians will be emailed the assigned date and time for their student’s registered session.  Please check your email regularly for the information about the date and time your student will be writing the assessment.  Students must bring picture identification (Go-card, Driver’s license, or Passport) to the assessment.

Student who are designated and on an IEP may qualify for certain accommodations they have been regularly accessing throughout the semester.  Please check in with their LST teacher.

Please visit https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/provincial/assessment for more information about the Graduation Assessments including Sample Assessments.