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Egypt abolishes decades-old Thanaweya Amma exam system, unveils new hybrid education model

Sep 28, 2020, 15:09 PM
Egypt's Education Minister Tarek Shawki announced that the decades-old Thanaweya Amma exam system has been removed at the end of the 2019/2020 academic year. The exam will no longer be unified, will have have four versions, and will be taken electronically.
Title : Egypt abolishes decades-old Thanaweya Amma exam system, unveils new hybrid education model
Source : Ahram Online
External URL : http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/379566/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-abolishes-decadesold-Thanaweya-Amma-exam-sys.aspx

Egypt's well-established and decades-old system of high school final exams, known as Thanaweya Amma, has been abolished as of the end of the 2019/2020 academic year, Egypt's Education Minister Tarek Shawki announced in a presser on Tuesday.

The high school final exams, which determine university prospects based on grades obtained, will be replaced by a new electronic module as of the upcoming 2020-2021 school year.

The exams will no longer be unified and will be taken and evaluated electronically, without any human intervention, Shawki said.

The exams will be based on multiple-choice questions and students will know their results once they are finished, he noted.

The ministry will issue four versions of the exam at the same difficulty level, with students allowed to retake any subject in a second-round without any grades deducted, which revives the improvement exam system that was in place until the 1990s.

 

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