CAIRO: Egypt's Minister of Education has begun an investigation with the committee responsible for writing the English language exam for secondary school students. Four parts of the third question came from outside the curriculum, so the marks on those four parts were distributed to the rest of the question. The students protested against the difficulty of the exam. They threatened to stage a sit-in at Tahrir Square. The committee consists of four people now under investigation, according to a source at the ministry. The Minister of Education, Ahmed Gamal Eddin Moussa, will send notification of the members' mistakes in writing the exam to the universities from which they were chosen. The source added that members of committee will be banned from creating exams in the future. However, the members continue to insist that they did not make mistakes in writing the questions. In related news, Moussa announced that the initial results of the physics exam revealed that 94.2 percent of students passed the exam. Of 7,555 answer sheets in a random sampling, Moussa said 7,116 passed. Of those, 744 students received full marks.
