PLAR for Mature Students

​​​Mature students may obtain credits for prior learning through Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR), a formal evaluation and credit granting process​. This includes knowledge and skills that mature students have acquired in both formal and informal ways, outside of secondary school.

Eligibility for Mature PLAR:

• Students must be 18 years of age on or after January 1st of the current school year;

• Students must have fewer than 26 credits
  

• Students must earn their final four credit. With the following exception: students who provide evidence of successful completion of a post-secondary diploma or degree from an accredited post-secondary institution will complete a minimum of one credit;

• Students must be enrolled in credit classes through day school, night school, summer school, correspondence or cooperative education.
  

• Students may be from outside of Ontario. In this case the student may have an equivalency done based on the credits granted in another province/country. If a student cannot obtain a transcript, then the student may start with a zero credit count and write all five PLAR assessments and then apply for 11/12 equivalency credits based on life and work experience.