Egypt sets conditions for students to retake weekly assessments after absence

Egypt's education ministry has announced that students absent from weekly school assessments may retake them only with a documented medical excuse.

• Schools have begun weekly assessments for students from first grade through second secondary for the 2026–2027 school year.
• The ministry said students absent from weekly assessments may retake them only upon presenting a medical excuse certified by health insurance.
• The ministry stated that students absent without a medical excuse will not be granted retakes.
• The ministry set assessment scores at 10 points per subject for primary grades, 20 percent of the subject grade in preparatory, 15 percent in secondary, and 20 points per subject under the Egyptian Baccalaureate.
• The ministry said excused absent students' grades will be calculated as the average of their other assessments.
• The ministry said any paper answered by an absent student is corrected but not scored, with a note written on it.