The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC), in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and in coordination with telecom operators operating in the Kingdom, announced that IP-based messaging applications will be blocked around schools hosting the General Secondary Education Certificate Examinations (Tawjihi) to ensure the integrity of the exams.
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The Commission stated on Thursday that the blocking will be implemented across various regions of the Kingdom during examination hours to prevent any disruption to the process.
It added that this measure takes effect starting Thursday, July 23, 2026, and will continue until July 30, 2026.
The TRC clarified that the application block will begin a few minutes before the start of each exam and will end shortly after it concludes.
A total of 133,122 eleventh-grade students (Class of 2009) are taking their first Tawjihi exam session in Arabic Language on Thursday, with examinations continuing through July 30.
The students are distributed across 1,319 examination halls within 590 exam centers across various directorates of education, while 23 centers across the Kingdom's governorates have been designated for grading the Arabic and English language exam booklets.
