Al-Marsad newspaper: The Ministry of Education has clarified the date of the second extended school leave during the first semester.
And she added, the leave, which will last for four days, will include general education students in the Kingdom’s schools for boys and girls, and administrative and educational cadres in schools.
And she added, the leave begins at the end of the working day of Thursday, the seventeenth of the next Rabi` al-Awwal, and includes Friday and Saturday the usual weekly leave, in addition to Sunday and Monday.
On the other hand, the dates of the exams that will be implemented during the first semester of the current academic year, for the three school stages for boys and girls.
She pointed out that during the current week, the first of these tests, which represents the first period, will begin, while the date of the second period examination will start from Sunday, the fifth of Rabi` al-Thani.
She pointed out that the beginning of the tests for portable materials and self-learning materials for the course system and the beginning of the practical and oral side tests for materials that have two sides will be Sunday corresponding to the nineteenth of the month of Rabi` al-Thani and for a period of five days, while the beginning of the written exams for the end of the first semester will be Sunday corresponding to the twenty-sixth of the month of Rabi` al-Thani. The second test for a period of five days, provided that the alternative tests for absentees with an excuse for the first semester test for the intermediate and primary stages from the third to sixth grades will be on Sunday corresponding to the tenth of Jumada Al-Ula for a period of five days.
And she added, while the exams for the second round of secondary school in the tracks system will start on Sunday, the seventeenth of Jumada Al-Ula.