Fiji FY13CE

Overview

The Fiji Year 13 Certificate Examination (FY13CE) is Fiji's national external examination at the end of Year 13, the final year of secondary school. It is set and administered by the Fiji Ministry of Education, Heritage and Arts, and succeeded the older Fiji Seventh Form Examination. FY13CE results are the main academic record used for admission into degree programmes at Fiji's universities, including the University of the South Pacific (USP), Fiji National University (FNU) and the University of Fiji, and are also referenced by some overseas universities when assessing Fijian school leavers.

Who can apply

Candidates are Year 13 students completing their final year of secondary school in a Fiji Ministry of Education-registered school. Schools register their own Year 13 students for the examination as part of the national external-examination cycle; students do not register individually with the Ministry. A student who does not sit, or who does not pass, FY13CE in their Year 13 year can typically repeat Year 13 or resit as a private/repeat candidate through a school, though the exact repeat arrangements are set by the Ministry and by individual schools.

Exam pattern

Candidates sit external, written examinations in a number of subjects, chosen from the Year 13 curriculum offered by their school. Reported subjects include English, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Agricultural Science, Accounting, Economics, Geography, History, Computer Studies, Office Technology, Technical Drawing, Applied Technology, Home Economics, and language subjects such as Vosa Vaka Viti (Fijian), Hindi, Urdu and Rotuman.

University admission typically looks at a candidate's aggregate mark across their best four subjects (commonly expressed out of a maximum of 400), with specific subjects required for specific degree programmes (for example English and Mathematics for teaching or nursing programmes, or English, Biology, Mathematics and a physical science for medicine).

Marking and results

Each subject is marked out of 100 by the Ministry's examiners. Universities and other institutions then compute an aggregate from a candidate's best subjects (commonly the best four) to apply against their own minimum-mark entry requirements, which vary by institution and by programme — for example, reported general entry thresholds range from around 200 marks in four subjects for some undergraduate programmes up to 320 marks with specific subjects required for medicine.

Provisional results are published online shortly after marking, with candidates checking their results using their personal examination code; schools and District Education Offices also give students without internet access a way to check. Candidates who want to query a result can apply, within a set period after provisional results are released, for a recount or a remark of a subject; for 2025, the Ministry's published fees for this were $5 per subject for a recount and$25 per subject for a remark.

Important dates

Exact dates move from year to year and are confirmed by the Ministry closer to the exam period, but recent cycles follow a similar shape:

• The written examinations are held over roughly two weeks within the October-November window. For 2025, the Year 13 papers ran from Monday 27 October to Thursday 6 November 2025.

• Provisional results are released within weeks of the exams finishing, with a window afterwards (around 30 days in recent years) during which candidates can apply for a recount or remark.

• Final, confirmed results follow the provisional release once any recounts or remarks are processed.

Candidates should check the Ministry of Education's website and official notices each year for the confirmed timetable and result-release dates, since these are set annually and have shifted in past years.

How to apply

Registration for FY13CE is school-based: a candidate's own secondary school enters them for the examination as part of the Ministry's national external-examination process, so there is no separate individual application a student files with the Ministry. Students should confirm subject choices and registration details with their school well before the Ministry's registration deadline for that year, since schools coordinate the paperwork and any fees with the Ministry of Education.

After the exam

Passing FY13CE completes a candidate's secondary schooling and produces the mark record used for tertiary admission in Fiji. For Year 13 candidates applying to USP, the Ministry of Education sends results directly to the university once they are finalised, so candidates generally do not need to submit their Year 13 results themselves; USP also offers provisional admission to Year 13 students based on earlier school results, ahead of final FY13CE marks. FNU and the University of Fiji similarly use the FY13CE aggregate (with programme-specific subject and mark requirements) as their main school-leaving qualification for undergraduate entry. Some overseas universities, including some in Australia, also list the Fiji Year 13 Certificate as an assessable school-leaving qualification for admission.

Preparation tips

• Confirm subject choices with your school early: university programmes set specific required subjects (English, Mathematics and particular sciences for programmes such as nursing, teaching or medicine), so the subjects a candidate sits can affect which programmes they can later apply to.

• Work through past FY13CE papers and any Ministry-released sample material for each subject, since question formats tend to repeat from year to year.

• Track the Ministry of Education's own announcements (website and official social media) for the confirmed exam timetable each year rather than relying on a previous year's dates.

• If a result looks lower than expected, apply for a recount or remark within the published window rather than waiting, since recount/remark applications are only accepted for a limited period after provisional results are released.

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