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The '''''NEWTs (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests)''''' are final exams taken by 7th year students at [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]]. Not all students are able to proceed to take NEWTs in all subjects; teachers will accept for further study only those students who have done well enough in their [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/OWL exams|OWLs]] to convince the teachers that they will benefit from more advanced study. Magical education that is designed to lead to NEWT testing is, of course, referred to as "NEWT-level courses", and magic normally taught at that level is referred to as "NEWT-level magic."
== Event Details ==
Fairly often in the books, something is mentioned as being NEWT-class or NEWT-level magic. Examples of this are [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter|Harry]]'s ability to conjure a corporeal [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Expecto Patronum|Patronus]], and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hermione Granger|Hermione]]'s ability to perform the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Protean Charm|Protean Charm]]. NEWT-class spells are complicated enough that the average wizard does not expect to have to perform them for real until his NEWT exams, and thus Harry's ability, in his third year at Hogwarts, and Hermione's ability early in her fifth year, to perform magic that is not generally tested until seventh year, is exceptional.
In the same way, the courses one takes after one has achieved a sufficiently high OWL grade are called NEWT-level courses. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Minerva McGonagall|Professor McGonagall]] teaches advanced [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Transfiguration|Transfiguration]], for instance, to sixth and seventh year students who have achieved at least an E in their Transfiguration OWL, and we see [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Neville Longbottom|Neville]] wondering whether he can somehow parley his Transfiguration A into NEWT-level study in McGonagall's class.
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Similarly to the OWL exams, which are the analog of the Muggle GCSE or O-Level exams, the NEWT exams are analogous to the Muggle A-level exams, which are generally required for proceeding to university. There is no mention of a Wizarding university, but analogously the top jobs require NEWTs as a prologue to the further education that is required before starting work proper. We are told that there will be three years of study after graduation from Hogwarts before Harry will be able to start work as an Auror. While there must be a lot of stress in the lead-up to the NEWT exams, we don't actually get to see this.
We can see that the OWL exams are probably named after the O-levels that were standard in Muggle education, until they were replaced by GCSEs; we can guess that the author is of an age to have taken O-levels and probably A-levels as a high school student. The reason for the name is uncertain, but we can guess that, having selected one animal with Wizarding associations for the fifth-year tests, another animal with magical associations should be selected as the acronym for the seventh-year tests. It is, perhaps, unusual that any Government body would create an exam including the words "nastily exhausting", so we can speculate that the official name, while retaining the NEWT acronym, may be something less humorous. If so, we never hear the official name.
It is likely that the NEWT exams are taken in the two weeks of summer term following the OWL exams. We have seen that OWLs take two weeks, during which time the Great Hall will be full of fifth-year students writing their exams; presumably, the NEWT exams fill the Great Hall for the following two weeks.
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Despite Harry's being told that he must have at least five Exceeds Expectations NEWT results to become an Auror, the author has implied that he entered the Aurors in the year that would have followed his seventh year at school. As he neither attended Hogwarts that year, nor sat NEWTs, we must assume that the Aurors accepted his year of unsupervised work as being equivalent to the necessary studies and exams.
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