press release

The Ministry of Education and Technical Education announced that 582,852 students from the second year of secondary school took the Arabic language exam "morning period" today, and 490,134 male/female students took the electronic exam, at a rate of 84%, while they were unable to take the exam. The number of 92 thousand and 718 students.

The Ministry investigated the matter, and it was found that there was a delay in the response of the main databases, due to the occurrence of many modifications in the students’ data received from the educational departments, which took place at the same time, which caused a disruption in the examinations’ access to the schools’ servers, and the person responsible for this error was investigated Technical and immediate dealing technically by increasing the capacity and speed of the database servers as well as improving their performance to ensure that this delay does not occur again.

The ministry confirmed that since this error was not the responsibility of the students, it decided to count those students who were unable to perform the electronic exam the full electronic exam score for the Arabic language, and all controls have been put in place to prevent the recurrence of this technical error in the upcoming exams, God willing.