A total of 45,000 students from all academic and vocational streams are sitting for the General Secondary Education Certificate Examination (Tawjihi) supplementary session today, Saturday, on its eighth day. This comes out of a total of 131,381 registered candidates, including 116,714 students who have not yet fulfilled the requirements for passing, and 14,667 students aiming to improve their averages.
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The Ministry of Education stated that these students are taking the Arabic language exam using a unified examination paper, with the first session starting at 11:00 a.m.
Director of the Examinations and Tests Department at the Ministry of Education, Mohammad Shahadeh, confirmed that the exam questions will be drawn from the prescribed school curriculum and will take into account individual differences among students.
Shahadeh said that the exams will be “balanced and appropriate for the time allocated,” noting that examinations have been proceeding smoothly and according to plan since their launch.
He explained that the first exam session begins at 11:00 a.m., emphasizing that all students will sit for the exams based on the approved editions of school textbooks for the 2024/2025 academic year.
Shahadeh also anticipated that the results of the supplementary Tawjihi examination for the current year will be announced before mid-February.
A total of 131,381 male and female students are participating in this year’s supplementary Tawjihi exams, including 116,714 students who have not completed the requirements for passing and 14,667 students seeking to raise their averages. The distribution across academic and vocational streams is as follows: eleventh grade academic stream (37,437 students), scientific (42,274), literary (40,468), Sharia (116), industrial (3,740), agricultural (2,422), hotel and tourism (887), and home economics (4,037).
The examinations are being held in 529 examination centers distributed across education directorates throughout the Kingdom, with 42 reserve halls designated in various directorates. Exam papers will be graded at 38 marking centers across the governorates.
A total of 140 students will sit for the exams in correctional and juvenile rehabilitation centers, distributed across 15 halls, while three students will take the exams at the King Hussein Cancer Center.
As for students with disabilities, 422 male and female students are sitting for the exams, distributed as follows: hearing impaired (115 students), visually impaired/blind (37), students with physical disabilities (113), cerebral palsy (64), and those with low vision (93).
