"National exams": qualitative development of tests and the new system depends on understanding

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This came during a meeting of the Committee on Education and Scientific Research headed by Dr. Sami Hashim, Chairman of the Committee during the discussion of the budget of the Ministry of Education and Technical Education for the fiscal year 2019/2020.

Ramadan, said that the center prepared the tests during the months of January and March, and perhaps the last examinations of the first grade secondary that began yesterday, and there is a significant shift in tests, following: "Some students complain that the exams outside the book .. Ah .. The new system depends on Understanding and application and not conservation, it is necessary to answer the same mathematical issue mentioned in the book, the student knows the rule of sports and to apply, but I will not mention the same mathematical issue placed in the book as usual.

He added that the new examinations are witnessing a change in culture, and the Center needs support, especially that the Bank of questions takes great effort and is employing a large number of professors and university professors, especially as the question banks go through several stages starting with the scheme of communication and analysis of content and other stages, "More than 600 teachers from outside the center have been hired and have not received any dues for more than a year," he said. "We want to increase financial support under question banks by increasing allocations for the first section."

In a related context, Ramadan explained that the Center presented a vision to the Ministry of Education for restructuring, especially that some departments play a similar and close role to the quality authority, and the Minister presented to Prime Minister Dr. Mostafa Medbouli, and we await the presidential decision.

For her part, the representative of the Ministry of Finance, said that the budget of the center make him stand on solid ground, which is "comfortable" as described, and will provide the required funds during the fiscal year.

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