Egyptian Minister of Education on Saturday Tarek Shawki announced details on the new system for high school exams for the 2020/2021 academic year, amidst heightened precautionary measures. Shawky announced that the final year exams for high school will start on July 10 and end on August 2. All high school decisions have been personally supervised by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, he added. President Sisi has ordered facilitating the procedures for the new high school exam system to ensure that students perform their exams smoothly, by making the paper-based system available alongside the electronic tablet as two alternatives available together. Parents and students are preoccupied with fears of problems with the electronic high school exams system and its possible downfall, after it happened in the experimental exams conducted by the Education Ministry few days ago.
