 Admission to the Wirtschaftsgymnasium is voluntary for all students in the tenth year of the Realschule or the same year at the Gymnasium.In order to be allowed to attend a Wirtschaftsgymnasium, a student from the Realschule needs satisfactory grades (marks) in the main subjects German, Mathematics and English, namely an average grade better than 3.0 (in the German grade system, which goes from 1 (best) to 6 (worst).Moreover, the student is not allowed to have grades worse than 4 in the three aforementioned subjects.