Panhellenic Examinations

Apolytirio(n) (also rendered as Apolyterio(n)) is the main school-leaving certificate for secondary education in Greece and Cyprus, obtained after successfully completing the third grade of Lyceum. It is graded on a 20-point scale.

Terminology: Apolytirio, Απολυτήριο (Dhimotiki), 1976–present); Apolytirion, Απολυτήριον (Katharevousa (up until 1976)).

The system and examinations accepted for entrance into highest (Greek: ανὠτατη, anotati) and higher (Greek: ανώτερη, anoteri) education in Greece went through major changes since 1980.

The most common/known Lyceum is the General Lyceum (Greek: Γενικὀ Λύκειο, Geniko Lykeio).

In the first 2 grades, all students are taught the same subjects. In 3rd grade, students followed a core programme of general education and each Desmi (Α, Β, Γ, and Δ) followed a specialized program (Greek: Δέσμη, Δέσμες / Desmi (singular), Desmes (plural)).

An Apolytirio of Geniko Lykeio included the GPA (scale 1–20), student's conduct information and consisted of:

From 1984 until 1998 only the total score of the Panhellenic Examinations (Greek: Πανελλήνιες / Πανελλαδικές Εξετάσεις) was accepted for the highest/higher education, Universities and Polytechnics (Highest Education) or the Technological Educational Institutes (T.E.I.) (Higher Education; by law Π.Δ. 2916/2001 in 2001 were considered to be at the same rank as Universities.

The total Score was calculated from the individual scores, with one of the subjects having a higher weight percentage. e.g. for A Desmi: Mathematics, B Desmi: Biology, etc.

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