High school students can adjourn exams to next year: Egypt Education Minister

High school students can adjourn exams to next year: Egypt Education Minister

Egyptian Education Minister Tarek Shawki said Sunday that final year students of the Thanaweya Amma high-school exams have the option to adjourn their exams until next year, with no impact on their school degree or risk of failure that year.. Students that are quarantined or healthy but otherwise unable to make the exam (provided they have a medical report) can attend second session examinations with no full mark reductions, he added.. The number of high school students attending the exams this year is 653,389, with the maximum number of students in the exam committee rooms reduced to eleven students per room, the minister added.. Thanaweya Amma refers to tests in the final years of high school, which students attend between the ages of 17 and 18, a crucial educational stage in Egypt..