Jordanian Tawjihi Equivalency Requirements for H.S.D
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What are the requirements for the local equivalency (2022/2023)?
First:The student is required to complete 12 years of schooling where he/she shall be officially enrolled in the American Program for the last 3 years. Exceptions apply to the British & IB Programs’ students who finish grade 10 and join the American Program in grade 11 as mentioned earlier.
Second: The school must be officially accredited by an American accreditation agency and its high school transcripts shall be officially certified by the AmidEast in Amman.
Third:The students who are graduating from the Jordanian Schools are expected to pass the following subjects in grades 11 & 12:
Arabic, Islamic Education (for the Muslim students), and Jordan History in addition to the American High School Diploma subjects.
Fourth:Each ACT Subject Test is equivalent to SAT Subject Test (a former test offered by the College Board).
Fifth: The Equivalency Options
Students can choose one of the following options
1. Six ACT Subject Tests.
Three of these subjects/exams must be scientific including Mathematics to obtain the scientific equivalency:
- 25%: grade 10, 11, and 12 grades.
- 75%: six ACT Subject Tests.
2. Four ACT Subject Tests + one AP exam OR Four ACT Subject Tests + ACT.
Three of these subjects/exams must be scientific including Mathematics to obtain the scientific equivalency:
- 25%: grade 10, 11, and 12 grades.
- 50%: four ACT Subject Tests.
- 25%: one AP exam OR ACT.
3. Two ACT Subject Tests + two AP exams.
Three of these subjects/exams must be scientific including Mathematics to obtain the scientific equivalency:
- 25%: grade 10, 11, and 12 grades.
- 25%: two ACT Subject Tests.
- 50%: two AP exams.
4. Three AP exams.
Two of these exams must be scientific to obtain the scientific equivalency:
- 25%: grade 10, 11, and 12 grades.
- 75%: three AP exams.
5. Two AP exams + ACT.
The AP exams, in this case, must be both scientific to obtain the scientific equivalency:
- 25%: grade 10, 11, and 12 grades.
- 50%: two AP exams.
- 25%: ACT.
6. Two ACT Subject Tests + one AP exam + ACT.
Three of these subjects/exams must be scientific including Mathematics to obtain the scientific equivalency:
- 25%: grade 10, 11, and 12 grades.
- 25%: two ACT Subject Tests.
- 25%: one AP exam.
- 25%: ACT.
NOTE: if a student is not willing to consider grades 10, 11, and 12 in the equivalency, he/she can substitute them with any external exam with the same weight (two ACT Subject Tests, one AP exam, or ACT).
Sixth: The following subjects are optional (literary) alternatives for the aforementioned ACT Subject Tests:
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Islamic Education, Jordan History, and Arabic (MOE)
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Arabic GCE (A-Level)
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Arabic A (IB)
NOTE: AP Art exams, including AP Drawing, is equivalent to 1 ACT Subject Test (not two) except for the students who have taken it in grade 11 (2019/2020).
Seventh: The following grading scales are the newly adopted ones for the equivalency:
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36
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100%
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25
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88%
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35
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99%
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24
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86%
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34
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98%
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23
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84%
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33
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97%
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22
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82%
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32
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96%
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21
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79%
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31
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95%
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20
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76%
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30
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94%
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19
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73%
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29
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93%
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18
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70%
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28
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92%
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17
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67%
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27
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91%
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16
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64%
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26
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90%
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