Half half
46% of this year’s Tawjihi test takers failed.
Tawjihi is Jordan’s Secondary School Leaving Certificate in which you can’t graduate from highschool without passing.
FORTY-SIX PERCENT.
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طفيلي( ahmad)
July 29, 2007 @ 2:57 am
I think it should have been more than 46%. The problem is about 30 thousand student who have chance to enter University. It is disaster when 20% university student has a chance to get decent job in their field.
طفيلي( ahmad)
July 29, 2007 @ 2:58 am
And 80% stay at home or coffeeshops…..
Qwaider قويدر
July 29, 2007 @ 7:32 am
Lets look at the bright side, 54 percent Passed … YAAAAY :) Mabrook and better luck to the rest
Isam
July 29, 2007 @ 9:19 am
whats the point of an exam if everybody passed ?? no logic in that …
when i was younger … i was a big con of tawjihi … but now when i’ve seen how people use GCESE, IB, SAT and other certificates to get in colleges when they dont know the first thing about anything (I am not talking abt all the systems’ graduates … not even the majority) ,,, i think tawjihi IS the reason why jordan has many skilled professionals … cuz if u want to pass tawjihi … you have to earn that ,,,
i admit tawjihi has flaws ,,, but what system is flawless ??
and to fail tawjihi is not the end if the world … i mean lets be frank here … if u cant PASS this exam … you shouldnt persue an academic degree … find a profession where you’re not sitting at a desk like in every jordanian’s dream … and you will make a good living out of it ,,, i know a friend who became a carpenter when his friend studied IT in “Mowazi” program … the carpenter is doing just fine and the IT guy is not working at all !!!
leen
July 29, 2007 @ 9:43 am
good morning roba,
i think today is ur birthday ?:).. im not sure though..
happy birthday w 3o2bal el 19887792828282828282828828 saneh :)
Besh
July 29, 2007 @ 1:49 pm
ya jama3a…..this is not some silly issue to post congrats or express happy wishes.
yes it is an exam but NO it should be 46% failing percentage.
there must be a solution for this endless loop….bcuz many young ppl with gr8 capabilities get frustrated when they fail tawjihi and its not always their fault that they couldnt jst memorize the whole goddamn book!!
there must be an emphasis on finding solutions …ya3ni badal ma ye3amlo makromet 2akal 7azzan…..ye3maloolhom madares mnee7a…no money they say…well there is always money but there is no priorities..
if the universities cannot manage to take all of these students then dont make them take the test anyway….because its both the gov. and society’s responsibility to insure these kids’ future…..we cant jst throw them in the streets and say ” oh life is jst hard,get used to it”.
come on ppl 46% means there is a real problem considering our educational system. and its not OK bcuz some of us passed that horrible period of their life and managed to get away.
oh and btw i passed tawjihi from the 1st time (84.3) so this comment is not based on hate due to personal imperfection !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haitham Issam
July 29, 2007 @ 2:18 pm
Isam, what you said is a slight generalization of the Jordanian perspective to education:
“…if you can’t PASS this exam … you shouldnt persue an academic degree … find a profession where you’re not sitting at a desk like in every jordanian’s dream … and you will make a good living out of it…”
This really can’t be true, at all. Everybody knows somebody who didn’t make it through that test and he’s doing just fine pursuing some kind of job, while on the other hand, another somebody is still dreaming of “Amerga” or the “Bee-Am” instead of dreaming of a decent “Desk-Job”.
ma7joob
July 29, 2007 @ 4:17 pm
we don’t have space for everyone to go into uni , it’s as simple as that , we have hard tawjeehi because we only want the BEST , i am totally with tawjeehi and it’s results . plus it’s not that hard , ya3ni if you study you’ll pass , even if you have low IQ
Isam
July 29, 2007 @ 4:34 pm
Haitham … if u know one person who failed tawjihi and then moved on to a successful life it doesnt mean that tawjihi is not fair … its simply a system anomaly … think of percentages … and then discuss … do not base your discussion on some case you’ve seen … and most of us didn’t …
for your information … i am one of those who were “opressed” by the tawjihi system … because i scored very low compared with my IQ … i lost half the marks for math ,,, but my other marks where high enough to get me to study electrical engineering … and in university i failed more than 30 credits in math related subjects … thats why i started believing in Tawjihi …
Pheras Hilal
July 29, 2007 @ 5:48 pm
Roba, that’s relatively a high percentage, in my year (2004), around 60 percent of the Scientific Stream’s students had failed in at least one subject. But our year was one hell of a year; the year where the exam’s questions were leaked out and we had to retake a lot of subjects. Not to mention giving only half a day to study the whole Thakafeh 3ameh book! Imagine!
But really, doesn’t this indicate that our educational system is failing?
Haitham Issam
July 29, 2007 @ 5:51 pm
Isam, I was “quoting” you. Take a chill pill.
Osama Humeid
July 30, 2007 @ 12:48 am
Hello,
Happy BDAY!, so tawjihi then, well i think it should be lot more than that figure, why? well, i believe 80% of Tawjihi graduates don’t deserve to even look at a uni, i am not saying Tawjihi system as it is now is OK, no everyone knows it sucks, but let us suppose that their is a fair damn exam which qualifies who should and should not reach his next step in the education hierarchy among cute Jordanian youth, it should not be more than 25%, at least thats how i look at it from my modest experience in the Jordanian education system. and happy bday again
babazahra'
July 30, 2007 @ 7:47 am
i still remember my landlord back in Mafraq 1998-2001
his oldest son seat three times in Tawjihi and like they always said
you’ll finally success on 3rd attempt
so, keep on trying dude!
besh
July 31, 2007 @ 11:49 pm
Isam!!
do u study in PSUT..?!!!
LooL
if so i think we have met before :)
anyway if we WANT the best we have to GIVE the best we could
what u reap is what u saw
yet still u can hear people talking about how it all ended up just fine and no harm is done, so why do we care?!!!!
YEAH WE DO NOT CARE FOR THOSE LOSERS WHO FAILED TAWJIHI
yettabbalo!!!they dont desreve to pass anyway!
YA!!
well thats just a little bit incorrect.
yes we do have a relatively strong and good edu. system but still there is many gaps that need to be filled.why? because we are entering a new era and very soon we ganna have to compete with everybody who is interested due to open market policy. so if we dont have an extra very good edu. system we can just all turn into consumers and/or service providers (none of those contain producers nor scientists)!! if we cool with that, then say again (whats the use of an educational system ??!!!!!)
Isam
August 1, 2007 @ 9:32 am
Besh : no but close ;) i went the Yarmouk … what is known amongst us engineers as Hijjawi :( blv me it was hard as hell … i have no idea how i ever graduated :) peace bro
Amer
December 24, 2007 @ 6:08 pm
The WORST excuse for the 46% failing rate is that “we don’t have space for any more graduates in universities.” The test itself is the flawed item - regardless of what happens before/after it, regardless of where the passing portion goes.
If the grading process is steered by how much “room for passing students” we have, the education board has a much bigger legal problem.
The king continually asks why top Jordanian graduates flee the country the minute they’re off the hook - well, this is exactly why. This everchanging, inconsistent, unpredictable test that, no matter how well you prepare, it always depends on your grader’s mood at the time, and surrounding conditions like “space” and who you know. It’s absolutely pathetic - and leaves the country with the robots who memorize their way through college and graduate capable of nothing but local engineering and local medicine, because their methodology is simply invalid anywhere else in the world.
As someone who recently graduated college in the United States after passing with a 96% in a Jordananian high school, I can definitely tell you that more than 75% of my graduating class in high school was admitted and traveled overseas to pursue upper education and a relevant career. Trust me, Twjihi’s last problem is SPACE.