The new system aims to reduce student workload while maintaining educational quality.
Thanaweya Amma gets a facelift: Education Minister Mohamed Abdellatif yesterday unveiled a plan to restructure high school education and Thanaweya Amma by extension for the 2024-2025 academic year, which is set to begin on 21 September. The plan, which aims to reduce student workload while maintaining educational quality, was approved after public consultation with educational stakeholders over the past few weeks, the minister said.
The revamped system in a nutshell: Only six subjects will count toward the final grades of first- and second-year students in high school, down from 10 and eight, respectively. Meanwhile, third-year students will only take five graded subjects instead of seven. Second foreign languages, geology, psychology, and religious studies will all become pass/fail subjects, meaning they won’t impact the final grade.
That’s not all: The new system also moves around certain subjects and combines some others.
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