Egyptian first-year secondary students without tablets to sit exams on paper

Egypt's Education Ministry has said any first-year secondary student who has not received a school tablet will take all exams in paper form this year.

• First-year students without tablets will sit monthly and end-of-semester exams in paper form, while tablet recipients take them electronically.
• The ministry said students facing technical problems during an electronic exam will be assessed in paper form or sit a paper exam simultaneously.
• Minister Mohamed Abdel Latif issued a circular on tablet-handover procedures for general secondary schools and technical schools in technological baccalaureate programs.
• The ministry said tablets are personal custodianship until graduation, and that private-school, home-study, services, and technical-worker students will not receive them.