Online Meeting Held with Provincial Education Directors on the Administration of Standardized Examinations

The Standardized Examinations Committee of the Ministry of Education held an online meeting with the respected Provincial Directors of Education and the Director of Education of Kabul City.
At the beginning of the meeting, H.E. Alhaj Mawlawi Karamatullah Akhundzada, Deputy Minister for Islamic Education and Acting Minister of Education, provided an overview of the unified and centralized examinations. He called on all education officials to extend their full cooperation to ensure the effective implementation of this process.
Subsequently, H.E. Alhaj Mawlawi Abdul Khaliq Sadiq, Deputy Minister for Quality Assurance and Head of the Standardized Examinations Committee, delivered a speech highlighting the significance of unified and centralized standardized examinations.
Thereafter, Mawlawi Shams Urrahman Hamas, Director of Standardized Examinations and Educational Assessment at the Ministry of Education, spoke about the standardization of examinations and its historical development within Afghanistan’s education system. He also shared the implementation guidelines for the four-and-a-half-month examinations with the Provincial Directors of Education and the Director of Education of Kabul City.
According to the plan, the four-and-a-half-month examinations will be conducted in four subjects—Islamic Education, Mathematics, Chemistry, and First Language—for Grade 10 students in public and private schools in Kabul City and the centers of all 33 provinces.
In addition, Grade 11 students in public and private schools in Kabul City will take standardized examinations in six subjects—Islamic Education, Mathematics, Chemistry, First Language, Geography, and Biology—in accordance with the aforementioned guidelines.