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From this year half the marks come from multiple-choice items and half from written answers, and the first sitting falls in May. Your plan is built around that shape from the opening lesson.
What you will study
The 2026/27 syllabus comes in three books: the student book in two parts and the story book. Six units, three each term, each holding two prose lessons and one poetic text, with the grammar set inside the unit.
Two prose lessons, science between law and conscience and character as the heart of virtue, with a poetic text. The grammar is the five nouns, where marks go missing when a learner parses them with vowels and misses the letters.
Technology and public opinion, taste and reason, and a poetic text on the weight of a word. The grammar is the diptotes, and questions turn on why a word is barred and where it sits in the sentence.
Human rights between the universal and the particular, freedom of thought, and a poetic text. The grammar covers the adjective, apposition, specification and conjunction, forms that look alike and part company in the meaning they carry.
Women and the building of the modern state, Egypt and the Egyptian woman, and a poetic text about the homeland. The unit feeds the writing questions, and skimming it leaves you with nothing to quote.
Negotiation as a strategy of conscious leadership, leadership as trust and fairness, and a poetic call to peace. The language is practical, and questions ask you to explain a position or draw out the value behind it.
The educated person in a digital age, culture as a tool for living, and a poetic text on exile and longing. It lands late in the year under revision pressure, so many learners read it once and pay for that.
Hikayat al-Gharib, Awdat al-Ruh, Kifah Tiba, Al-Ard, Shams wa Layl, Al-Abarat, Wa Islamah, Abqariyyat Umar, Ragul Taht al-Sifr and Sahh al-Nawm. Questions ask about characters, their motives and the value a work carries.
Functional writing and creative writing, practised alongside every unit. The skill being marked is an idea built through ordered paragraphs in sound language, since spelling and sentence errors cost marks in every written answer.
All three books are downloadable from the ministry's electronic library, and that copy is the one to revise from in May.
How lessons run
Lessons are live online and follow the order of your own book, so you stay level with your class, with a fixed share of each week for grammar and writing.
The first lesson starts with a passage from your book. You answer parsing and comprehension questions, then write a short paragraph. Those three pieces show where you stand in reading, in grammar and in writing.
The tutor spreads the units across the term and places a short revision lesson before each weekly or monthly assessment at school. You walk into those assessments prepared, and you qualify for the first sitting in May.
You read the passage and draw out its idea and its images. The tutor then lifts the grammar point from a sentence inside that passage, and you write fresh sentences on it. A rule learnt where it lives is a rule that stays.
The ten works are spread across the school year, and each gets a small page you write yourself: the characters, the event the work turns on, and the value a reader takes away. Final revision then meets a book you have read.
As the exam approaches you work through an objective half and an essay half against the clock. The tutor marks the written half to stated criteria and has you rewrite the weakest answer.
Lesson times are in Cairo time and are arranged around your school day and the mid-year holiday, 23 January to 4 February 2027.
The exam
Secondary 2 exams in the Egyptian Baccalaureate are set by the ministry. Arabic carries 100 marks, and from 2026/27 the paper splits evenly between multiple-choice items and written answers.
Set by
Ministry of Education and Technical Education
The body that sets, marks and publishes results for the Egyptian Baccalaureate and the Thanaweya Amma, the General Secondary Certificate.
| Part | Weighting |
|---|---|
| The objective half | 50% of the paper |
Multiple-choice questions across comprehension, grammar, rhetoric and the story book How a tutor helps A tutor drills three habits: read the whole stem before the options, rule out the near options one by one, and leave a hard item to return to. Those habits alone protect a good number of marks. | |
| The essay half | 50% of the paper |
Written answers in analysis, rhetoric, the prescribed works and composition How a tutor helps Every written answer is marked against criteria you can see: an ordered idea, evidence from the text, sound language. The tutor then rewrites the weakest paragraph with you, line by line. | |
Multiple-choice questions across comprehension, grammar, rhetoric and the story book
How a tutor helps
A tutor drills three habits: read the whole stem before the options, rule out the near options one by one, and leave a hard item to return to. Those habits alone protect a good number of marks.
Written answers in analysis, rhetoric, the prescribed works and composition
How a tutor helps
Every written answer is marked against criteria you can see: an ordered idea, evidence from the text, sound language. The tutor then rewrites the weakest paragraph with you, line by line.
The August 2026 decisions set the first Secondary 2 sitting for May, free and compulsory, and open a July resit taken by choice and charged for each subject. Day-by-day timetables are still to come, as of 24 September 2026.
Every counted subject carries 100 marks. Secondary 2 supplies 400 of the 600 on the certificate and Secondary 3 supplies 200, so this year holds about two thirds of the total.
What we look for in a tutor
Standards we hold every tutor of this subject to.
Works from the 2026/27 edition itself and knows the order of its units, texts and grammar sections, so the lesson matches your syllabus.
Explains grammar inside the sentence it appears in, then asks you to apply it to an unseen passage in the same lesson.
Sets written criteria for an essay answer, comments on the page itself, and asks for the paragraph to be written again after marking.
Knows the story book in full and discusses characters, motives and values, so analysis questions are answered with understanding.
Uses correct Arabic, and corrects parsing and spelling errors as they happen, calmly enough that you keep trying.
Starts on time in Cairo time, gives early notice of any change, and treats you with respect.
Where learners get stuck
Difficulties that repeat in this subject, and the tutor's answer to each.
A learner memorises the rule for the five nouns, then hesitates when the question lands on one word inside a long sentence.
How a tutor helps
You practise on sentences taken from your own lessons and learn to ask what the word is doing in its sentence before reaching for the rule.
A summary answers what happened, while the questions in the book ask why it happened and what value the work is carrying.
How a tutor helps
You read the work itself with a pen in hand and write one line per character on what drives them. Analysis questions then come within reach.
Writing starts with no plan, paragraphs repeat themselves, and marks for order and language go before the idea is even read.
How a tutor helps
You learn a three-step plan before writing: one main idea, two pieces of supporting evidence, a close that returns to the idea. Then you write against the clock.
This is the first year half the Arabic paper is multiple choice, and the options are written to sit close together.
How a tutor helps
You work through objective sets every week and review each wrong answer with the tutor, so you learn the type of trap and recognise it next time.
Names of images and figures are memorised, and the learner then struggles to say what an image does in its line.
How a tutor helps
The tutor ties every image to its meaning in the place it stands and asks for one sentence explaining what it adds to the sense.
A learner writes at length on the first written question, then finds the last two answers have minutes left between them.
How a tutor helps
You practise dividing time between the two halves and writing a short answer that still contains every element, because the marks live in the elements.
Common questions
Tell us your grade, your school and the unit you have reached, and we will match you with a tutor who knows this year's book.