AMMAN — More than 11,000 of this year’s roughly
185,000
Tawjihi students scored 90 percent or higher, Al-Mamlaka TV reported on
Thursday. The national average on this year’s general secondary education
certificate examination was 63.1 percent, which has raised concerns among some
students as to whether or not they will be able to study their preferred
specialization at a public university.
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The minimum requirements to be accepted to specific
universities or specializations will not be final until the application period
has ended, spokesperson for the Min
istry of Higher Education and Scientific Research Muhannad Al-Khatib told
Jordan News.
The requirements “depend on two factors”, he said:
First is how many students the Higher Education Council decides to accept at
the end of the application period, and second is “students’ choices of
specializations through the Unified Admission Coordination Unit”.
Khatib expected the average Tawjihi score required
to apply in general to increase “in light of the rise in success rates,
especially ... in the scientific stream”, but stressed that “we cannot be
certain of that”.
For some, like Shahed Sawalha, who recently graduated
from high school, the uncertainty of the application process is difficult to
accept.
“I don’t think there is justice at all in the
constantly changing (requirements), year to year,” she said.
When she got her results, she compared the entry
requirements for a power engineering specialization at a public university.
“The acceptance for this major was 92.8 in 2020 and then dropped to 80 in 2021,
in just one year there is almost 12 marks difference,” Sawalha said.
“I got a score of 90.3 and I’m not sure I’ll be
accepted anywhere.”
Questions around Tawjihi
This year’s Tawjihi results
are not considered high,
Nawaf Al-Ajarmeh, the director of Examinations and
Tests at the Ministry of Education, told
Jordan News. The ministry hopes
to achieve even higher results in the future.
There are several
reasons the average Tawjihi result is higher, Ajarmeh explained, of which two
stand out. The first is that the number of subjects students are tested on has
been reduced from 10 to eight, of which only seven are counted in a student’s
final score. The test with the lowest result is dropped from the tally. The
second is the transition to multiple-choice questions for most subjects.
“Multiple choice is a lot easier for students to
answer” as students practice multiple-choice questions with their teachers,
Ajarmeh said.
This year, 2,432 students scored 96 percent or
higher; 132 students scored 99 percent and above, of which 127 were in the
scientific stream, according to the Ministry of Education.
For Fakher Al-Daas, a coordinator for Dabahtoona,
the national campaign for student’s rights, the large number of students
achieving such high scores seems unreasonable.
“In a normal situation, there is no way for 127
students to get 99 percent and above. This does not reflect the actual level of
students,” he told
Jordan News.
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