Thanaweya Amma · the 2027 sitting
Thanaweya Amma physics is a counted subject in both science branches, 60 of the 320 marks, and our network of 1,800+ tutors teaches it across Egypt. Lessons here are live and online, one tutor with one learner, worked through the ministry textbook chapter by chapter, and they begin at the point where your own marks are leaking.
The 2027 papers run from 26 June to 21 July 2027, the first Thanaweya Amma sitting in which half the marks come from essay questions and half from multiple choice.
What you will study
The ministry book falls into two units: current electricity with electromagnetism, then an introduction to modern physics. Beside each chapter are the marks it carried in the 2026 paper.
Current and resistance, series and parallel circuits, electromotive force with internal resistance, then the two Kirchhoff laws. The marks lost here go on signs inside one loop.
Current and resistance · EMF and internal resistance · Kirchhoff's two laws
The field around a straight wire, a coil and a solenoid, the force acting on a conductor carrying current, then the galvanometer, ammeter and voltmeter. Three dimensions are the first hurdle.
Fields around wires and coils · Force on a conductor · Galvanometer, ammeter, voltmeter
The heaviest chapter in 2026: magnetic flux, Faraday's law and Lenz's rule, self and mutual induction, the transformer, the dynamo and the motor. Graphs and written reasoning both appear.
Magnetic flux and Faraday's law · Lenz's rule · Transformer, dynamo, motor
A resistor, a coil and a capacitor in an alternating current, then impedance, resonance and power. The chapter turns on phase, so formulae without the angles lose the calculations.
Resistor, coil and capacitor · Impedance and phase · Resonance and power
Unit two opens here: black body radiation, the photoelectric effect, the Compton effect, the wave nature of particles and the electron microscope. These questions reward understanding over arithmetic.
Black body radiation · The photoelectric effect · Wave nature of particles
Line and continuous spectra, the energy levels of the hydrogen atom and its series, and X-rays. Short by marks, with exact questions separating absorption from emission.
Line and continuous spectra · Hydrogen series · X-rays
Population inversion, stimulated emission and the resonant cavity, then the properties of a laser beam and its uses. The lightest chapter, and it rewards getting the steps in order.
Population inversion · Stimulated emission · The resonant cavity
The semiconductor crystal and doping, the diode in forward and reverse bias, the transistor, and analogue and digital electronics. Last in the book, so many reach it once revision starts.
Semiconductor crystal and doping · The diode · The transistor
Those marks are what the press reported for 2026; the 2027 distribution comes with the new specification.
How lessons run
One diagnostic lesson, then a written plan on the order of the ministry book, revisited every fortnight against what the practice papers show.
Step 1
You work a short paper from chapters already covered: a simple circuit, the direction of an induced current, one conceptual question from modern physics. The result decides where the plan starts.
Step 2
The eight chapters are spread across both terms, with more time on those carrying the heaviest marks. The plan is sent to you, and it moves when school falls behind or a test nears.
Step 3
Each law is built in front of you: where it comes from, what stays fixed, what changes, then a worked example line by line. The board reaches you afterwards.
Step 4
Half the time goes on timed multiple choice and on close-set options. The other half goes on a clean written answer: the quantities given, then the law, the substitution, a result carrying its unit, and two lines of reasoning.
Step 5
A timed paper on what has been covered, then a walk through the mistakes question by question. A short report follows: the chapters that have settled and the errors that keep returning.
Step 6
In the closing months the lessons become full timed attempts at the indicative papers and past papers, with a pause after each to read the mistakes and fix the order of an answer.
Times are Cairo time; lessons sit around the school day and monthly tests.
The exam
The ministry sets this paper and marks it. The 2026 figures show the shape the exam has had. In 2027 the weighting changes: half multiple choice, half essay.
Set by
Ministry of Education and Technical Education
It sets the syllabus and the paper, and publishes indicative papers for each subject on its electronic library.
| Part | Duration | Marks | Weighting |
|---|---|---|---|
| The whole physics paper (2026 shape) | 3 hours, 9:00 to 12:00 | 60 marks | 60 of the 320 total |
46 questions spread across all eight chapters, nothing left out How a tutor helps The paper is attempted at full length under the clock, with a minute budget per page, so the time does not drain into two questions and leave the last chapter unread. | |||
| Multiple choice, one mark each | 32 questions · 32 marks | 32 of the 60 marks in 2026 | |
Short questions spread across the eight chapters at graded levels How a tutor helps The options sit close together on purpose, so the drill is to read twice and strike out any option whose units or direction are wrong. | |||
| Multiple choice, two marks each | 12 questions · 24 marks | 24 of the 60 marks in 2026 | |
Longer questions, each joining more than one calculation step How a tutor helps A single slip costs double here, so the working goes on a side sheet and the unit is checked first. Estimating the order of magnitude exposes an odd answer. | |||
| Two essay questions | 2 questions · 4 marks | 4 of the 60 marks in 2026 | |
An answer written out by hand, with reasoning or full working How a tutor helps Order earns the marks: the quantities given, the law, the substitution, the result with its unit, two lines of reasoning and a small diagram. This part grows in 2027. | |||
46 questions spread across all eight chapters, nothing left out
How a tutor helps
The paper is attempted at full length under the clock, with a minute budget per page, so the time does not drain into two questions and leave the last chapter unread.
Short questions spread across the eight chapters at graded levels
How a tutor helps
The options sit close together on purpose, so the drill is to read twice and strike out any option whose units or direction are wrong.
Longer questions, each joining more than one calculation step
How a tutor helps
A single slip costs double here, so the working goes on a side sheet and the unit is checked first. Estimating the order of magnitude exposes an odd answer.
An answer written out by hand, with reasoning or full working
How a tutor helps
Order earns the marks: the quantities given, the law, the substitution, the result with its unit, two lines of reasoning and a small diagram. This part grows in 2027.
The first-round papers run from 26 June 2027 to 21 July 2027, after the school year closes on 24 June. Where physics falls inside that window comes with the timetable.
Physics is marked out of 60 and a pass starts at 30. The new-system total is 320 marks, while old-system candidates are marked out of 410.
What we look for in a tutor
The standards every tutor of this subject meets with us.
A university background in physics or engineering, and the habit of showing where a law comes from.
Teaches from the eight chapters in order, and checks what changed in the new printing before term starts.
Writes the full solution in front of you, then asks you to say it back before the next example begins.
Corrects the unit, the symbol and the direction on every line, because those details decide the multiple-choice questions.
Balances timed multiple-choice drill with writing a clean essay answer, because the new paper asks for both.
Speaks plainly and with respect, and treats a poor mark as information for next week's plan without dramatising it.
Where learners get stuck
Six places where physics learners stall, and the tutor's move at each one.
Why it happens
The two get used as one value, and the internal resistance mark disappears from every closed-circuit question.
How a tutor helps
We draw the circuit twice, once with the switch open and once closed, and put numbers on the gap until it stops being abstract.
Why it happens
A direction chosen once is forgotten at the second source, which flips one term and the whole answer.
How a tutor helps
One habit is fixed: the arrow is drawn first, the terms follow in the same order, and the answer is checked round the loop.
Why it happens
Three dimensions are hard to hold on flat paper, so one demonstration gets memorised and misapplied elsewhere.
How a tutor helps
We start from one question: is the flux rising or falling? The opposing current follows, on a magnet, a coil or a rotating loop alike.
Why it happens
Formulae are memorised with no picture of the angles, so resistances get added as plain numbers.
How a tutor helps
The impedance triangle is drawn before any arithmetic, and resonance is tied to the case where the inductive and capacitive parts are equal.
Why it happens
Everyday intuition says brighter light does more, while the experiment says frequency alone frees the electron.
How a tutor helps
We read the graph: what moves as intensity rises, and what moves as frequency rises. Then you say it back in your own words.
Why it happens
Modern electronics sits last in the book, so learners arrive there once revision has begun.
How a tutor helps
The diode and the transistor come forward into the second term in small weekly doses, so revision starts with that chapter already known.
Common questions
Tell us your branch and the chapters costing you marks, and we will match a physics tutor who starts there.