(Zaman Al Wasl) The Ministry of Education issued on Sunday 21 August the results of the second round of re-take exams for the general high school certificate for the scholastic year 2015-2016.
The results of the first round of exams were issued around one month ago, and the results were scrutinized by over 30 thousand students appealing against the results.
The Ministry of Education finished scrutinizing the appeal against the results made by over 30 thousand students who failed and passed in the first round of exams. It emerged that mistakes in correcting or adding grades occurred in 289 students’ exams across all Syrian provinces, 244 of them for students in the scientific branch and 45 for students in the literary branch.
-Cheating and Bribery-
Multiple sources spoke about the shocking truths happening during exams whether in the first or second round, and many violations were documented, from the regime thugs’ entering exam halls or special teachers handing officials’ children completed exam papers, or students using mobile phones and social media networks to obtain answers for exam questions from outside, or hall monitors facilitating students’ violations, or facilitating processes of cheating and bribery where headmasters and monitors received bribes from students or their parents, and last but not least assigning particular monitors to certain halls were specific students would be undertaking their exams.
The scandal that dominated the Syrian street was that of the leaked questions as the exam questions for more than one subject were leaked prior to the exam. Despite this, the Ministry of Education did not substitute the exam with the reserve exam which is usually prepared alongside the original questions although the leaks happened more than 24 hours before each subject.
-Objections-
Outstanding students and their parents’ complaints fell on deaf ears, and they received no response from the Education Directorates or the Ministry about the chaos during exams which subjected hardworking students to injustice, and many students of lower standards obtained higher grades than them through cheating. This has meant some deserving students are denied entry into advanced branches of study in universities.
It is worth mentioning that the exams were only organized in Latakia, Tartus, Homs, Hama, Damascus, Suweida, and parts of Deraa. Other provinces were denied holding the exams due to the arrests students are subjected to during their commute between regime controlled and liberated areas as what happened in Homs’ northern countryside.
The regime did not accept students undertaking their exams in areas other than their places of residence which denied over half Syrian students the chance to enter university inside or outside of Syria.
-UNESCO warning-
The education system in Syria allowed only one exam round, but in its caution to maintain the support of regime supporters in regime controlled areas, pushed the regime to organize a second exam round and facilitate it. Sources monitoring the situation confirm that such high grades and high success rates were not witnessed prior to the start of the Syrian revolution.
Many countries in the world do not acknowledge the educational process in the regime controlled areas in Syria nor the certificates issued by the regime. UNESCO directed several notifications to the Ministry of Education warning it about the decrease in the educational standard and the certificates it is giving.
The results of the first round of exams were issued around one month ago, and the results were scrutinized by over 30 thousand students appealing against the results.
The Ministry of Education finished scrutinizing the appeal against the results made by over 30 thousand students who failed and passed in the first round of exams. It emerged that mistakes in correcting or adding grades occurred in 289 students’ exams across all Syrian provinces, 244 of them for students in the scientific branch and 45 for students in the literary branch.
-Cheating and Bribery-
Multiple sources spoke about the shocking truths happening during exams whether in the first or second round, and many violations were documented, from the regime thugs’ entering exam halls or special teachers handing officials’ children completed exam papers, or students using mobile phones and social media networks to obtain answers for exam questions from outside, or hall monitors facilitating students’ violations, or facilitating processes of cheating and bribery where headmasters and monitors received bribes from students or their parents, and last but not least assigning particular monitors to certain halls were specific students would be undertaking their exams.
The scandal that dominated the Syrian street was that of the leaked questions as the exam questions for more than one subject were leaked prior to the exam. Despite this, the Ministry of Education did not substitute the exam with the reserve exam which is usually prepared alongside the original questions although the leaks happened more than 24 hours before each subject.
-Objections-
Outstanding students and their parents’ complaints fell on deaf ears, and they received no response from the Education Directorates or the Ministry about the chaos during exams which subjected hardworking students to injustice, and many students of lower standards obtained higher grades than them through cheating. This has meant some deserving students are denied entry into advanced branches of study in universities.
It is worth mentioning that the exams were only organized in Latakia, Tartus, Homs, Hama, Damascus, Suweida, and parts of Deraa. Other provinces were denied holding the exams due to the arrests students are subjected to during their commute between regime controlled and liberated areas as what happened in Homs’ northern countryside.
The regime did not accept students undertaking their exams in areas other than their places of residence which denied over half Syrian students the chance to enter university inside or outside of Syria.
-UNESCO warning-
The education system in Syria allowed only one exam round, but in its caution to maintain the support of regime supporters in regime controlled areas, pushed the regime to organize a second exam round and facilitate it. Sources monitoring the situation confirm that such high grades and high success rates were not witnessed prior to the start of the Syrian revolution.
Many countries in the world do not acknowledge the educational process in the regime controlled areas in Syria nor the certificates issued by the regime. UNESCO directed several notifications to the Ministry of Education warning it about the decrease in the educational standard and the certificates it is giving.
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