Junior Certificate, noun phrase

In historical contexts. a. JC sense a. b. JC sense b. Also attributive.
1939 J. Ludus in Outspan 20 Oct. 53If they (sc. young South Africans) do not obtain their matriculation, or at the very least junior certificate, adult South Africa assumes that they are incapable of doing so.
1961 H.F. Sampson White-Faced Huts 20Selbourne was 30, and had passed his Junior Certificate examination when at school.
1963 S.H. Skaife Naturalist Remembers 59Children began to take biology in the Junior Certificate, Senior Certificate and Matriculation examinations.
1970 Daily News 12 MayThe commission has suggested that a Junior Certificate or its equivalent should be laid down as a minimum educational qualification.
1979 M. Matshoba Call Me Not a Man 191Learn something new..rather than repeat in English for matric purposes what I did in siSotho for primary school purposes and in Afrikaans for Junior Certificate purposes.
1980 C. Hermer Diary of Maria Tholo 141Only 1,6 percent of African schoolteachers had university level qualifications, eight per cent had a Junior Certificate.
JC sense b. Also attributive.
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