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Explanation: If the qualifier "d'études" is given to distinguish this brevet from another type of brevet – say. from a patent – then "diploma" might work, depending on the level of studies. "Diploma" works fairly well through the high school level.
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I meant to mention that my perspective is USA/American English.
Example sentence(s):
A high school diploma is a diploma awarded for the completion of high school.
Junior Certificate/GCSE or Junior High School Completion Certificate
Explanation: I'm giving a few options as there is no context given as to age or anything but am assuming this is a brevet = English GCSE, that French students take before either leaving school or continuing on to lycée (Senior High School) and their equivalent of the High School Diploma or A levels= the baccalauréat général Or Bac.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_school French secondary education is divided into two schools: ... The Brevet des collèges is the first official diploma a pupil has to sit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_France - Cached
For a US reader, there is no diploma equivalent
prior to attending High School, many children in the United States attend a middle school or a junior high school (comprosing of grades 5-6, 5-8, 5-9, 6-8, 6-9, 7-8, 7-9 or 8-9)...
In the United States a high school is an upper secondary school which educates children from grade nine through grade twelve,[5] in other words, from the age of 14 or 15 to 17 or 18 (in some states, such as California, some students begin the ninth grade at age 13)...
At end of High School there is a high school diploma or General Educational Development (GED) certificate
the Brevet is usually at the end of what might be called Junior High school in the US so there is no certificate equivalent
perhaps Junior High School Completion Certificate as I've suggested would get message across
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