The Thanaweya Amma (high
school) final exams for the academic year 2021/22 will be postponed for two
weeks, starting on 26 June instead of 11 June and ending on 21 July, Minister
of Education Tarek Shawki said in a press conference on Wednesday, without
mentioning the reason behind the postponement.
Exams for subjects whose scores are not added to students’ total grades – including religious education, national education, economics, and statistics – will be held on 20-21 June, Shawki said.
The Thanaweya Amma exams will be in paper form and will be answered on bubble sheets, Shawki said.
Tests will comprise multiple-choice questions and will not have any essay questions, which will allow for fully electronic exam grading, he added.
Students will not be allowed to enter the exam halls with textbooks or tablets, the minister said.
The exams for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) high schools are scheduled to take place from 20 June till 23 July.
As for visually-impaired students, Thanaweya Amma exams will be conducted from 20 June till Tuesday 19 July, Shawky added.
Final exams for grade 10 and 11 students, or students of the first and second stages of high school, will be held in morning and evening shifts and will be taken in both paper and electronic formats, Shawki said.
Final exams for grade 10 will be held from 11 to 25 May, while exams for grade 11 students will start on 12 May and end on 26 May.
Egyptian students abroad will be able to take exams through an electronic platform provided by the ministry starting 7 May, Shawki said.
Students abroad who cannot access the platform can print the exam and send it back via email to the relevant exam monitoring committee.
Source: Al-Ahram Online
