This survey introduces the analysis of parents’ help impact on pupils’ choice of educational profiles, the theoretical and practical aspects such as the aims and objectives, the notion of the profiled learning; the analysis of documents, regulating the profiled learning, careers counseling and career education. One of the major tasks was to define the parents’ influence on efficiency in choosing the profiles of learning. Several methods were used in the survey: the analysis of scientific literature, the questionnaire for the pupils of 11th -12th grades, conversations, the analysis of mathematical-statistical data performed by computer programme SPPS 10.0 for Windows. The survey was performed in January-March 2006 where 430 respondents from 11-12 grades, their parents and class-mistresses took part. The analysis of the documents regulating the profiled learning shows that the essence of such learning is to differentiate teaching according to pupils’ ambitions, abilities, capabilities, gifts etc. giving them possibilities to choose certain subjects and levels associated with their chosen educational direction. The profiled learning, which was introduced on 1st September 2000, gives possibility to satisfy pupils’ interests,’ likings and also to learn what they prefer or what they have knowingly chosen according to their career interests. Parents have the right to choose a certain educational direction, which is closest to their... [to full text]