Thanaweya Amma · the 2027 cohort
Thanaweya Amma Arabic tutor for the one paper that Science, Mathematics and Literary candidates all sit: 80 of the 320 marks, a quarter of the total, and from 2027 half its questions want a written answer. Your tutor, from a network that has taught 15,000+ learners, works live online with you alone, starting from a full past paper.
883,690 learners registered for the 2026 certificate. The 2027 season starts 26 June and its last day is 21 July, and half the questions are now answers you write yourself.
What you will study
Six branches are examined in one paper, each with a known weight. The figures here are the ministry's distribution for 2025/26, the closest map available until the 2027 specification appears.
The text names come from the ministry letter to the education directorates dated 13 May 2026. The month-by-month scheme of work is published at the start of each term.
The heaviest branch. Set texts mix verse and prose, among them Ghurba wa Haneen, Al-Masaa, Al-Takaful al-Ijtimai and Rithaa Mai. Marks drop on purpose and effect, and on memorised lines recited one word out.
Simile, metaphor, metonymy and figurative usage, then the part that carries the marks: why an image works and what it adds. Questions come on set lines and on lines you have never seen.
The units run from pronunciation and spelling through word forms to the abrogating verbs and the declension of nouns and verbs. A question puts the rule inside a sentence and asks for parsing or correction.
The set reading topics plus an unseen passage. Questions test understanding and inference from context, and these are the marks that reward a learner who slows down and reads the question before the options.
A letter, a report or a notice on the functional side, and a structured piece on the creative side. The marker reads opening, structure, close and handwriting together, so all eight marks move with two minutes of planning.
The schools of poetry from Revival through Diwan and Apollo to the emotional trend, then the prose forms: essay, short story, novel and play. They describe themselves alike, and the question asks what separates them.
An autobiography in two parts, studied by numbered chapter. Questions ask for a situation, a feeling and evidence from the text, and reading the chapters straight through answers faster than a summary allows.
How lessons run
The order of the lessons follows the exam paper and the time you have left, and revision moves in step with the scheme of work your own school is teaching.
Step 1
In the first lesson you sit a full past paper to time. The tutor reads your answers line by line and records where each mark went: parsing, the effect of an image, a question read fast.
Step 2
Each rule is explained, then applied at once to sentences lifted from past papers, with you parsing aloud. Repeated errors go on one sheet you return to weekly until they leave your answers.
Step 3
You read the passage once for sense and once for imagery, then meet the question. In rhetoric you write the figure, why it works and what it adds, because the marker counts those three parts.
Step 4
Reading, composition and the set book come to 29 of the 80 marks, and they answer to patience more than to memory. Every lesson carries an unseen passage and two minutes of planning before a composition.
Step 5
As June approaches, lessons turn into full papers under three-hour conditions. Half of this year's questions are written answers, so practice covers writing speed and laying an answer out the way a marker reads.
Lesson times are set in Cairo time, and usually sit once the school day is over, or inside the Friday break.
The exam
The ministry sets and marks the paper, one paper for all three branches. What changed for the 2027 cohort is the shape of the questions, decided by the Supreme Council on 17 August 2026.
Set by
Ministry of Education and Technical Education
Writes the syllabus, the specification and the timetable, and publishes how marks divide across the branches ahead of each year.
One paper covering all six branches, with no oral or practical component.
How a tutor helps
The tutor trains you to spread three hours across the branches, and starts early in the year, because time lost on one question costs more marks than getting it wrong.
Short questions that range across every branch of the subject.
How a tutor helps
Practice here is reading the whole stem before the options, then ruling out the near misses. Arabic options are written deliberately close together, and a single word separates two of them.
Answers you compose: parsing, appreciation, a position from the set book, and a composition.
How a tutor helps
You write full answers in legible hand and they are marked in front of you. A correct idea in an incomplete sentence takes part of the mark, and that shortfall adds up across the paper.
The first paper of the 2027 season falls on 26 June 2027, and the last on 21 July. A timetable naming each subject's day is published some weeks beforehand. By 24 September 2026 it had still not appeared.
The total is 320 marks: Arabic 80, the first foreign language and three other subjects 60 each. Religious education, national education, physical education and the second foreign language are studied outside the total.
What we look for in a tutor
These are the things we look for, written as a learner would see them in the lesson itself.
Parses the ambiguous case, justifies the ruling, explains both readings where a structure allows two, and says which to write.
Teaches from the ministry edition in your hands, and follows the scheme of work and the paper specification as issued.
Explains imagery on fresh lines every time, so an unseen passage in the examination feels like ordinary work.
Reads your composition and written answers in your own hand, and returns the sheet marked wherever a point was lost.
Reads the text with correct vowelling and the verse with its music, because hearing it right fixes recall faster than reading.
Holds to the lesson time and the revision plan, and says plainly when a branch slips behind and how it is fixed.
Where learners get stuck
Six patterns repeat in Arabic scripts every year, and most of them are about how the question was read.
The rule is memorised on its own, while the examination sentence inverts the order or separates a governor from what it governs.
How a tutor helps
A short daily drill parsing sentences from past papers, with the type of error logged each time and reviewed weekly until it stops appearing on your script.
The question asks for purpose or effect, while the memorised answer describes the general meaning of the line.
How a tutor helps
We read the question word by word before the text, and name the task: give, justify, compare, infer. Each verb calls for a different answer shape and a different length.
A rhetoric question wants the type, the reason it is effective and its effect, and the answer ends at the type.
How a tutor helps
You settle into three fixed lines for every image: what it is, what is likened to what, and what it adds. The mark is split across all three.
The passage is new to you, and the eye catches a familiar word and jumps to an answer sitting near it.
How a tutor helps
Underline the sentence your answer came from before writing it. That single habit protects 17 marks available to careful reading.
Time runs short at the end of the paper, so a general paragraph goes down with no opening and no close.
How a tutor helps
We reserve the composition its time from the start of the paper, and you practise planning four elements in two minutes and writing straight onto them.
The chapters are close in their events, and outside summaries reorder them away from the book's own sequence.
How a tutor helps
Read both parts straight through once, then build a table with one line per chapter: the place, the person, and the moment something changed for Taha Hussein.
Common questions
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