The Alberta Diploma Exams are the provincial tests given to grade 12 students in Alberta

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. Results are an important factor in admissions to universities and colleges across Canada as exam marks make up fifty percent of the course grade for grade 12 level subjects.

Governments of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut follow and complete the curriculum of Alberta Education and therefore write Alberta Grade 12 Diploma Examinations.