A sense of relief prevailed among General Secondary Education Certificate (Tawjihi) students following the conclusion of the Islamic Education exam. The exam was held on Thursday during the first session of the 2026 general examination cycle for 12th-grade students (the 2008 cohort).
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Students described the exam as easy and direct, confirming that the questions were drawn from the prescribed textbook and accounted for individual differences among students. No notable remarks were recorded regarding the style of the questions or the distribution of marks, and students indicated that it fell within expected levels and was free of complexities.
Student Mohammad Al-Faouri told Al-Mamlaka that the questions were direct compared to previous years' exams and catered to individual differences among students, noting that the exam included some differentiating questions that help measure various student levels.
Al-Faouri added that the questions were clear and similar to the formats and questions of previous years, while the duration of the exam was sufficient to complete and review the answers. He pointed out that the exam consisted of 50 multiple-choice questions that covered various topics of the subject and focused on its core concepts.
A number of students stated that the anxiety they felt before the exam dissipated as soon as they looked at the question paper. They noted that the questions were from the prescribed textbook and accounted for individual differences, which was reflected in the atmosphere of relief that prevailed after they left the examination halls.
For his part, Islamic Sciences teacher Khaldoun Al-Sarfandi described the exam as "average leaning towards easy," confirming that it accounted for individual differences among students and included a number of concepts and questions repeated from previous years' exams.
Al-Sarfandi explained to Al-Mamlaka that the presence of some precise items is normal in an exam consisting of 50 questions, but they were not highly difficult. He emphasized that the exam was completely free of any unfamiliar concepts or questions from outside the prescribed curriculum. He added that a student who is well-prepared can answer all questions and achieve a high score, noting that the time allocated for the exam was appropriate for the nature of the questions.
In the same context, the Minister of Education, Azmi Mahafzah, checked on the progress of the General Secondary Education Certificate examination on its first day during an inspection visit to the exam's dedicated operations room at the Directorate of General Examinations.
During the visit, in which he was accompanied by the Ministry’s Secretary-General for Educational Affairs, Nawaf Al-Ajarmeh, Mahafzah expressed his satisfaction with the measures taken to ensure that students take the exam easily, smoothly, and in a suitable environment.
He listened to a briefing on the workflow in the operations room, stressing the need for rapid response to incoming observations, immediate follow-up, and answering inquiries from citizens and students regarding the exam and its procedures with full transparency.
The first sessions of the 2026 General Secondary Education Certificate examination ("the general exam") began on Thursday and will conclude on Saturday, July 18.
A total of 126,679 male and female applicants from various academic streams sat for the first session of the exam in the Islamic Education subject.
The students in the academic track were distributed across the following streams: Health (45,116), Engineering (11,695), Science and Technology (16,347), Languages and Social Sciences (11,946), Law and Sharia Sciences (38,702), and Business (4,150).
The total number of applicants reached 196,029, including 140,972 regular students and 55,057 new and returning private-study applicants. Regular students are divided into 127,956 in the academic track and 13,016 in the vocational-technical track.
Additionally, 200 applicants are taking the exam in correctional and rehabilitation centers and juvenile centers distributed across 17 centers, alongside 11 students at the King Hussein Cancer Center, and 611 students with disabilities, including: Deaf (135), Blind (79), Physical Disabilities (158), Cerebral Palsy (97), and Visually Impaired (142).
The examinations are being held across 790 examination centers containing 1,899 halls, in addition to 42 backup halls, supervised by thousands of educational personnel across various governorates.
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