Trade or journeyman’s examination
You sit the trade or journeyman’s examination when you have finished your apprenticeship, by at the latest two months after it has ended. The examination takes the competence aims of the curriculum as a starting point and consists of four parts:
- Planning a piece of work and giving reasons for the solutions one has chosen
- Implementation of a professional piece of work
- Assessment of own test work
- Documentation of own test work
The length of the examination is decided in the subject curriculum.
If you do not pass the trade or journeyman’s examination, you may sit a new examination. The training establishment is to assist in this, but they are not obliged to extend your apprenticeship contract until the time you take the final examination. If both you and the company agree, the apprenticeship can be extended through a voluntary agreement.
Before you can sit a trade or journeyman’s examination you must as a rule have passed all subjects at Vg1 and Vg2 leading to your recognized trade. In special path subjects there is no Vg2 in school, so there you must follow tuition both in programme subjects and common core subjects during your apprenticeship, and you must sit all the required examinations before you can take the craft or journeyman’s examination.
In some recognized trades in the education programmes for electrical engineering and computer technology and technological and industrial production, you must sit a separate examination at Vg3 level before you can take the trade or journeyman’s examination. The curricula show which trades this applies to.
The Regulations to the Education Act lay down some exceptions to the requirement of having achieved passes in up to two common core subjects.Your school will give you more information about this.
For the trade or journeyman’s examination the following grade designations are used: “Bestått meget godt” (a very good pass), “Bestått ” (pass) and “Ikke bestått” (fail).
