Vocational preparation year general information

You can obtain initial advice on the vocational preparation year from your local employment agency. They can also recommend the relevant vocational school, which you can also contact for further information on the vocational preparation year and the registration procedure.

You can obtain further information on the vocational preparation year (BVJ) and the registration procedure from the vocational school responsible for you.

You can find the relevant vocational school on the Rhineland-Palatinate education server.

Alternatively, you can also contact the employment agency to find out about your career options.

• Rhineland-Palatinate education server

The prerequisite for admission to the vocational preparation year is at least nine years of schooling and

• a leaving certificate from a Realschule plus, an integrated comprehensive school or a grammar school or
• a leaving certificate from a school with a special focus on learning or
• an equivalent qualification

To register at the relevant vocational school, you must generally submit the half-year report from the last school you attended and, as soon as it is available, the final or leaving certificate.

Your vocational school will provide you with further information on any documents that may be required (e.g. CV, passport photo).

There are no school fees.

In order for a school to be able to set up a sufficient number of classes in good time, registration should take place after the half-year reports have been issued, preferably before March 1st of each year.

Later registrations are also possible.

• School regulations for public vocational schools (BBiSchulO RP)
• Vocational School Ordinance (BerSchulO)
• School Act (SchulG)

Individual school

21.08.2020