Pacific senior Secondary Certificate or PSSC in short, is an examination awarded by the South Pacific Board for EducationalAssessment to the students in the Pacific. Specifically the countries that are presenting candidates to the examination are Tonga, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Tuvalu and Nauru. The examination is taken at the end of year 12 in all countries using the examination except in Samoa where the examination is taken in year 13.