Full decisions of the Minister of Education

Dr. Tariq Shawky, Minister of Education and Technical Education, announced, on Thursday evening, in a speech on the channel “Our School 1”, several decisions on the details and the mechanism of conducting the exams for the first semester , as well as the mechanism for resuming studies in the second semester.

The decisions were as follows:

Grades KG1 to third grade of elementary school:
There are no exams for students with these academic levels in the new 2.0 education system, and the evaluation system will be relied upon to advance to the higher grade.

Grades from fourth of primary to second of secondary (comprising approximately one million and 400 thousand students):

The Ministry has designed a set of innovative solutions to assess students in the years of transportation in the shortest time possible, amid social distancing and a commitment to preventive controls, as the exams will begin on February 28 and continue until March 4, and they will be in school and only the tested student will attend.

The exam will be multidisciplinary for two hours in one day and an exam test and will include a series of questions (multiple choice) distributed by the basic subjects that add up to the total, while the non-additive subjects will be at the end of the year.

The exam schedule will be as follows: (fourth grade on February 28 – fifth grade of primary on March 1 – sixth grade of primary on March 2 – first intermediate grade on March 3 – second intermediate grade on March 4) .

Duration of the exam: two hours for each class, and the number of questions for each subject is determined according to its relative weight.

Regarding the controls to pass and pass to the upper grade: the score of 50% will be calculated in the first semester exam and 50% in the marks obtained by the student from the average marks that are made from March to May.
In order for the student to be successful, they must obtain 50% of the total score of the exam, provided that the score in any subject is not less than 25%.

Likewise, the student who scored 50% or more of the total and obtained less than 25% in one or more subjects will have the right to enter the second round in those subjects in which he has not reached 25%.

The student who scores less than 50% in the total has the right to enter the second round in the subjects in which he did not score 25% until exceeding the established success rate of 50% for the total.

– First, second and high school:

The first semester exams will be held from February 27 to March 11, 2021.

It has been decided that electronic examinations will be carried out in school for the groups that decide to deliver them to the tablet, and for the rest of the groups (who did not receive the tablet) follow-up work and assured committees will be carried out according to the attached schedule, with emphasis on compliance with precautionary measures within the school.

The short electronic exams (from home) will be taken at the end of each month from March to May, instead of the second semester exams.

The third preparatory grade:
It was decided to take an exam on March 7, and there will be an exam for all subjects (multidisciplinary) in what is taught in the first semester, and attendance will be only one day in the school committees. The result of this exam will be (passed or failed).

First semester exam scores are not added to the total at the end of the year, but passing the combined exam is required to apply for the second semester exam.

The student who did not pass the first semester exam or scored 50% or more on the exam test and did not get 25% in one or more subjects, must take a supplemental exam, and this exam is a prerequisite to apply the second semester exam in the subjects that triggered it.

The total of the student is calculated based on the grades that they will obtain in the exam of the second semester only, and the student is coordinated for enrollment in the secondary stage (general / technical / …… etc.) according to those grades .

The school’s second semester exam is conducted by supervisory and insured committees in accordance with the syllabus distribution plan for the second semester only, and in accordance with the procedures followed for conducting general examinations in each district .

Third grade high school:
The general high school exams are electronic, as previously announced for all students on the school supervisory committees, according to a schedule of several attempts, to be announced before the end of February.

A junior high school electronic test (mock) will be held next April from home.

The students of origin, those who fail and those who fail in high school are examined electronically with the new evaluation system, according to a mechanism that will be announced by the Ministry.

The Minister of Education and Technical Education also announced the examination mechanism for students of educational integration, special education and intellectual education, which resulted in the following way:

First semester exams

– Exams for students of educational integration and special education are taken on the same dates as their peers – according to the technical specifications of the examination test for each disability – except for students in the first and second grade of high school, where paper tests will be conducted. be held as appropriate.

Students in schools of intellectual education are evaluated by the teachers in their charge.

Second semester exams
– The exams for students of educational integration and special education are taken on the same dates as their peers – in accordance with the technical specifications of the examination test for each disability – except for first and second grade high school students, where only one test They will be tested according to what corresponds.

Mechanism for conducting exams for our children’s students abroad

Examinations of our children abroad are carried out electronically for grades four in primary to second in secondary school in the country where the studies have been suspended, provided that a level test is carried out for students in the third year of secondary school. upon returning to the homeland.

Educational years with technical education:

Technical education exams will be announced before the end of next week.

School attendance

My choice (without absence) will be according to the schedules, as was done in the first semester, starting on Saturday March 13, 2021, with the restart of the recovery groups in the schools.

The absence will be optional according to the official approval of the tutor in the educational administration.

The tutor has the right to choose to repeat the school year by submitting an official request to the educational administration.

American diploma decisions

The EST exam is the only qualification for US diploma students to coordinate Egyptian universities with a 6 month grace period (from February 15, 2021 to August 15, 2021) for G12 and G11 students (not retroactively) .

– SAT exams will not be considered after the date of February 15, 2021 for American diploma students in terms of coordination of Egyptian public, private and private universities.

Students in grades 12, 11 can match or match super on different assessment systems.