„In 2011, the Swedish government raised the entrance requirements for the main upper secondary education programmes by setting minimum grades that students need to achieve at the end of lower secondary education to enter the main upper secondary programmes. Today around 15 % of each cohort does not reach the grade threshold for the main upper secondary programmes. Introductory programmes are provided for these students to help them strengthen their foundational skills. […] Only half of the students who attend the introductory programme manage to complete it and enter one of the main upper secondary programmes within five years.“
Camilla Stronati, The design of upper secondary education across OECD countries (2023), S. 27.