AANES: pass rate in baccalaureate exams over 60%
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – An official in the Education Board in Jazira region said on Thursday, that the success rate of high school students (baccalaureate) for the Autonomous Administration curricula, the results of which were issued today, reached 63%.
On June 6, the exams for the preparatory and secondary certificates in their scientific and literary branches began for the first time at the level of the Jazira region, northeast Syria.
Rohat Khalil, co-chair of the Education Authority in Jazira region, said that 11,000 students have taken the exams for the secondary and preparatory certificates.
Khalil told North Press: “The success rate of high school students, which numbered 4,000 in the Jazira region, is about 63%.
The total number of successful students in the baccalaureate was 1,452, including 732 for the scientific branch and 720 for the literary one, according to the website of the Education Authority in the Jazira region.
The official indicated that a student who failed in three subjects can apply for the supplementary course that will take place on the 28th of July, while the successful student can repeat only two subjects to adjust the grade.
This year, final exams are being held for the first time in the Jazira region, at a time when the same was true in Kobani and Afrin before 2018.
The education system in the Autonomous Administration requires focusing on mother tongues (Kurdish, Arabic and Syriac) in the first grades, to add another local language subject in later grades and then the English language.
Since the beginning of the 2015-2016 academic year, the Autonomous Administration began teaching its educational curricula, as it first applied it to the first to third grades, and then to other grades in succession.
Teaching the Syrian government curricula in Jazira region is limited to several schools in the two security squares in Qamishli and Hasakah, in addition to a few villages south of Qamishli.
After students finish high school, they can study in the universities of the Autonomous Administration, which are currently Rojava University in Qamishli, Kobani University and Al Sharq University in Raqqa.
In 2018, Turkish forces and the Turkish-backed armed groups closed Afrin University after they invaded the city.