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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 in sixth and seventh year classes, 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.
The only person we hear of receiving their NEWT grades is Percy Weasley, and while we do hear that he had received his "top-grade NEWTs", we are not close enough to him to know what exams he is sitting or when. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Albus Dumbledore|Professor Dumbledore]] does mention [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Order of the Phoenix/Chapter 27|at one point]] that he is aware that [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dawlish|Dawlish]] had received top grades in his NEWTs.
'''Passing Grades'''
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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 NEWT 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, unlikely that any Government body would have the necessary sense of humour to name an exam with the words "nastily exhausting", so we can speculate that the official name, while retaining the NEWT acronym, may be something less droll. 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. Given that no more than one seventh of the school population will be taking OWLs at any given time, and that significantly less that one seventh will be taking NEWTs, it is possible that theory sections of OWLs and NEWTs are taken at the same time, though care must clearly be taken to avoid collisions between the practical exams.
== Questions ==
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