Intensive Security Measures Implemented for High School Exams Across Egypt

This Sunday morning, security forces began implementing a comprehensive security plan around the high school examination centers to ensure their safety ahead of the start of the national exams.

An official source stated in a special comment to the Middle East News Agency that the security plan includes a significant presence around the exam centers that will host students. This aims to create an appropriate environment for taking exams, as well as to secure the transportation of exam papers to the centers. Fixed security checkpoints will be established in front of the centers to address any emergency situations and prevent any unlawful gatherings, ensuring the safety of students and staff.

The security measures extend to all roads and routes leading to the exam centers, with patrols and traffic services deployed to facilitate movement on these routes, ensuring students can reach their examination venues smoothly.

Security directors across the country have been inspecting the areas surrounding examination centers to confirm that all forces involved in the security operation are prepared. They emphasized taking decisive action against any incidents that may disrupt the exams and providing assistance to students while promptly addressing any complaints they may encounter, aiming to create a conducive atmosphere for all students during this period.

It is noteworthy that this year, a total of 921,709 students are registered for high school exams under both new and old systems. Of these, 918,306 students are following the new system while 3,403 are from the old system, distributed across 2,032 examination centers within 613 exam complexes nationwide.

Today, students will take their religious education exam from 9:00 AM until 10:30 AM, followed by national education from 11:00 AM until 12:30 PM. According to the announced schedule, students will sit for their second foreign language exam on Tuesday, June 23, and for their Arabic language exam on Sunday, June 28. Students in the science and mathematics track will take their chemistry exam on Thursday, July 2, while those in the humanities track will take their geography exam on the same day.

On Sunday, July 5, students will take their first foreign language exam. Following that, science and mathematics track students will have their physics exam and humanities track students will sit for history on Thursday, July 9. The pure mathematics exam for math track students is scheduled for Sunday, July 12. Finally, math track students will have their applied mathematics exam along with biology for science track students on Thursday, July 16; humanities track students will take statistics on that day as well. This marks the conclusion of high school examinations.