1.1 million students will return to school tomorrow

Public and private state schools that follow the Ministry of Education’s curriculum, and kindergartens, will receive 1.1 million male and female students in all educational cycles tomorrow, Monday, in addition to the regularity of educational bodies of all types “teaching, administrative, and technical,” with the start of the second semester of the academic year 2024-2025.

According to the approved academic calendar, the number of school days in the current academic year for students and bodies of all kinds is 185 days, with 16 weeks in the first semester (78 days), 11 weeks in the second semester (55 days), and 11 weeks in the third semester (52 days). The total number of official holidays this year is six days, three of which were for the first semester, and the other will be in the third semester, and there are no official holidays during the semester. the second.

The Ministry has set the period from January 13 to 17 to analyze and issue the results of the first semester, provided that the final exams for the second semester will be held in the period from next March 10 to 19, and their results will be announced in the period from next April 21 to 25, with the spring break for students starting on March 24. , and the 31st of the same month for teaching, administrative and technical bodies and continues until April 13, so that the third semester begins April 14, 2025.

The Ministry of Education stated that the central tests in the second semester target students of the “first and third” cycles, and there are no central tests for students of the second cycle, which includes grades five through eight, as they are evaluated through projects that came as an alternative to tests, forming a new path applied for the first time. This year to evaluate educational gains more comprehensively.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Education, the total number of students in public schools is 290,000 male and female students across the country. Schools and students in all tracks are scheduled to work according to a study plan that will continue until the year 2025-2026, targeting public and private education schools that apply the Ministry of Education’s curriculum. Technical and applied schools, male and female students in the integrated continuing education system, have been established since the academic year 2023-2024, and are subject to amendment and change. Agreed upon controls and mechanisms.

. Analyzing and announcing the results of the first semester during the period from 13 to 17 of this month.

. The final exams for the second semester are from 10 to 19 next March.. There are no central exams for students in grades five to eight.