On Friday, Finland’s Matriculation Examination Board released the results of the annual upper secondary matriculation exams to schools around the country.
The board began releasing the outcomes to individual schools at 8 am. This year, 40,894 students signed up for their final upper secondary school examinations, an increase of some 700 on the previous year.
“This year, the number of people who sat the matriculation examinations, or people who were scored on the tests, totalled 39,982. That includes new graduates as well as those who are re-taking the exams or who have spread out their exams,” said board actuary Alex Hellsten.
As of Thursday, some 26,780 students were set to graduate successfully from upper secondary school. However that figure is likely to grow before graduation day on Saturday 2 June.
Just over 300 of the new graduates will matriculate next month even though they did not take any exams this spring. According to Hellsten, these candidates sat their exams earlier but have only formally completed their studies this year.
The Matriculation Board said that this year, it will not publish the names of secondary school graduates on its own website because of data security concerns. Instead, Finnish media including Yle (content in Finnish) are publishing lists of graduates based on information received from individual schools.
Some students have however not granted permission for their names to be published so they will not appear among the list of graduates on services provided by media organisations.