Fachoberschule

The Fachoberschule covers grades 11 and 12 and requires a Mittlerer Schulabschluss. It equips its pupils with general and specialised theoretical and practical knowledge and skills and leads up to Fachhochschulreife (higher education entrance qualification for the Fachhochschule). There are Fachoberschulen for technology, business and administration, nutrition and domestic science, agriculture, social work, design, seafaring etc. Practical training takes place in grade 11, i.e. in the first year of this school type, on four days a week for the whole year. Alongside this, pupils must spend at least eight periods per week in class. In some Länder, the practical training also takes place in blocks of several weeks. Completed vocational training can serve as a substitute for the 11th grade of the Fachoberschule, so that pupils with such qualifications can proceed directly with the 12th grade. Grade 12 (second year of the Fachoberschule) comprises at least 30 periods per week of general and specialist instruction. The compulsory subjects are German, social studies, mathematics, natural sciences, one foreign language and sport. 18 to 20 periods a week are taken up by classes in general subjects, which are the same for all pupils.

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