Examination Regulations

Examination Instructions No. (134) of 2000

Article 1- These instructions apply to universities, the Technical Education Authority, and the colleges and institutes affiliated with each of them.

Article 2- First - The college council or the institute council shall determine, upon a proposal from the department or branch council in the college in which there are no departments, the number and type of pursuit exams, the method of conducting them, and calculating their percentages, provided that the pursuit grade is not less than 30%, thirty percent, and not more than 50%, fifty percent. One hundred percent of the final grade, except for topics of a practical and applied nature, the percentage of which is determined by the University Council or the Technical Education Authority Council.
Second - The final exams in the graduating classes of medical colleges include some topics determined by the College Council, and the annual completion of sixth-grade subjects in medical colleges is calculated at a rate of (20%) twenty percent of the final grade.

Article 3- First: The quarterly or annual final exam for the first and second rounds will be confidential in all subjects.
Secondly - The semester or annual exam includes the topics covered during the semester or year, provided that the study period for the semester lessons is not less than (15) fifteen weeks and the annual lessons are not less than (30) thirty weeks, not including the days of final exams and school holidays.

Article 4 - The faculty member is committed to programming the vocabulary of the subjects he studies, along with the distribution of grades for the annual endeavor and the final exam. This is announced at the beginning of the academic year and the grades for the annual endeavor are announced to the students no later than five days before the start of the final exams through the department after the approval of the department head or the chairperson. Branch in colleges that do not have departments, and the student has the right to object to the grade or correct the error during the aforementioned period.

Article 5- The college or institute council shall form, upon the proposal of the dean, one or more permanent committees to administer examinations during the academic year.

Article 6- The minimum passing grade is (50%) fifty percent for each subject.

Article 7- Every two semester subjects in colleges that adopt the semester system are counted as one annual subject unless the number of hours for the semester subject is equal to the minimum number of study hours for one subject during the academic year.

Article 8- First: The student who failed half the subjects or less in the first round exams is allowed to take the second round exams in the subjects in which he failed 0. Conversely, he is considered to have failed the first round, with the exception of students in the final year in medical colleges.

Second - If the student is considered to have failed in either the first or second session, he will repeat the year full time and take an exam in all the subjects in which he failed, as well as in which he obtained an acceptable grade, taking into account what was stated in the provisions of Article (18) of these instructions.

Third - The failing student is exempted from the deleted topics and is required to take the new topics in his grade when changing the curricula, provided that this does not lead to his transfer to a higher grade or his graduation unless it is not required for a subject, taking into account what is stated in the clause.

Fourth - If the student succeeds in all the subjects in the academic stage he is in and fails in some of the subjects from a lower grade, he will be passed to the higher grade and will remain loaded with the subjects in which he failed and must pass them in the following year, even if he succeeds in the subjects of the higher grade.

Article - 9 - The student is considered to have failed any subject if his absences exceed (10%) ten percent of the hours scheduled for that subject without a legitimate excuse or (15%) fifteen with a legitimate excuse approved by the college or institute council.

Article 10- The student may participate in the second round exams if his failure to participate in the first round exams is due to a legitimate excuse approved by the college or institute council, provided that this is supported by official documents and in one of the following cases:
First: sudden illness
Second: The death of one of his first-degree relatives
Third: Run-over accidents
Fourth: Sudden arrest

Article 11- Study subjects of a practical or applied nature that do not have a final exam are excluded from taking the second round exam. This is determined by the college or institute council at the beginning of the year and announced to the students.

Article 12- It is not permissible to postpone the second round exam under any circumstances.

Article -13- Ten (10) points will be deducted from the final grade for the subject in which the student passed in the second round when calculating the average, except for passing with an acceptable grade, in which case his grade will be 50%, fifty percent in that subject.
Article 14 - The Department Council prepares the final results and submits them, along with its recommendations, to the College or Institute Council for approval and announcement, except for the completed grades, in which case the President of the University or the President of the Technical Education Authority must approve them.

Article 15- First: The student’s average is calculated on the basis of the grades he obtained in each subject, taking into account the number of units for each subject.

Secondly - The unit is considered an effort of one theoretical hour per week for a period of (15) fifteen weeks.

Third: In colleges, every two practical hours is equivalent to one theoretical hour, and every three practical hours is equivalent to one and a half hours, while in the institute, one practical hour is equivalent to one theoretical hour.

Article 16- First: The student’s graduation rank is calculated according to the following:

1. For a two-year study, the percentage of years to calculate the graduation rank is as follows:

The first year 40%                forty percent
Second year 60%                 sixty percent

2   In studies that last (4) four years, the distribution of the percentage of years is as follows:

The first year 10%                                one tenth of a percent
Second year 20%                                Twenty percent
Third year 30%                               thirty percent
Fourth year 40%                             Forty percent

C- In studies with a duration of (5) five years, the distribution of the percentages of years is as follows:
The first year 5%                                 one-fifth of a percent
Second year 10%

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