Intermediate Certificate

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Intermediate Certificate (countable and uncountable, plural Intermediate Certificates)

1. (Ireland, dated) A certificate awarded to Irish students who passed the state examinations at the end of the third or fourth year of a voluntary secondary school or boarding school.
2. (Australia, dated) A certificate awarded to students who successfully completed three years of high school.
   • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 57:

     ‘I’m gonna get a job as soon as I get my Intermediate Certificate at High School.’

In regular speech and writing the term Inter Cert is almost always preferred even in formal registers.

• In Ireland, the Intermediate Certificate was completely abolished in place of the Junior Certificate in 1992. People who were in secondary school before 1992 may still refer to the Junior Certificate as the Intermediate Certificate.
• In Australia, the Intermediate Certificate was abolished in 1965.

• Inter Cert

• Leaving Certificate
• Junior Certificate