Preference (school)
A very good performance assessment is described as an advantage at school (especially in Austria) . It is officially completed with excellent success and is only entered in the final report of the respective school year. Oral (unofficial) it is also given in the semester report .
Preference is given if the average of the school grades is better than or equal to 1.5 and the certificate does not contain a four (4) .
Wording in the School Education Act § 22
The annual report card must contain in particular:
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g) the statement that the student has completed the school year with excellent results if he was assessed with “very good” in at least half of the compulsory subjects and with “good” in the remaining compulsory subjects , whereby assessments with "Satisfactory" do not prevent this determination if the same number of assessments with "Very Good" are available for more than half of the compulsory subjects; In the new middle school, the determination of the excellent success in the 7th and 8th grade requires a corresponding assessment in the deepening of all differentiated compulsory subjects; in the elementary school and the special schools (with the exception of the special schools according to the curriculum of the Hauptschule or the New Middle School and the Polytechnic School) the determination of the excellent success is not to be made at school types with performance groups, a "satisfactory" in the highest performance group is to be rated as "good" or a "good" as "very good" [...]