The annual customs and traditions in the GSC exams

The General Secondary Certificate aka GSC is the most critical moment in the house of the Egyptian family because it is believed  as the period that would draw the future course of their children.

The GSC exams results qualify the student to join prestigious faculties and universities; the higher the score , the higher chance to join prestigious faculties and Universities with bright future like medicine or economics and political science , despite the fact the graduates of these faculties do not find jobs "except with connection" still the people insist on believing that their kids future lay in these exams.
Every year there is a well known season in Egypt called "The GSC exams season" in the beginning of the summer in the month of June.
And Every year there must be usual complaints from the exams in the GSC whether the first phase "The second year in the GSC"
or the second phase "The third year in the GSC" or whether the Arts/literature section " studying non-mathematical-unscientific stuff" or the scientific-mathematical section of course this beside the technical secondary , the Azhari Secondary and the foreign secondary certificates.
The large portion of the Egyptian students study in the GSC , hundred thousands of students yearly enter their deadly zone , there is no household in Egypt that does not have a kid or relative here or there that is facing it.
I will not elaborate in explaining the complex system of the GSC , because after all it is being changed from time to time according to the minister's mood and the regime's ultimate wish to make people busy in anything except things that really matter "The GSC phenomena historically was invented in the Nasserite era , when Nasser's brother in law was the minister of education."

You only have to  know that the system of the GSC  system will be changed next year to another new one according to some education conference held from couple of months and that this system from the real educational and economical point of views is worse than the current one.

You also must know that annually the Egyptian families pay millions of pounds so their kids get tutors lessons to pass the exams because the teachers do no teach in schools as they should , why do not the teachers do their jobs as they should be ?? Because they do not get paid as they should ; despite the president promised in his presidential program to raise their minimum salaries level !! "It is closed circuit if you look to it , always back to the regime and its head"

The worse thing in the GSC is its exams .There must be two or three hard exams especially in some subjects every year that make the students suffer from a nervous breakdown and the families mad at the ministry
This is an annual tradition
There must be crying and mourning outside the examination committees "Students have their exams in other schools to ensure secrecy and equity"
This is an annual tradition
There must be nervous breakdown and suicide cases for kids who did not reach 17 years old across the country
This is an annual tradition
Yesterday unfortunately a girl called "Merihan" {17 Yrs old} committed suicide because of the Mechanics exam in Port Said  and a boy called Hassan {16 Yrs old} committed suicide because of the trigonometry exam in Giza this beside a girl has a paralyse in her face after being Shock from the Mechanics exam in Cairo , that girl is an A grade student ; usually those students are those who got shocked more than anyone and those who respond violently and dramatically to the exams.
I remember that from three years ago a relative of mine , an A grade student had a nervous breakdown , she was sent to the hospital and had to repeat the year , imagine the stress on a teenager from the family and the society !!
By the way in the trigonometry exam this year the students had threatened to strike because of the difficulty of the exam.
Already it turned out that scientific/mathematical section exams were put by University professors who did not open the subject books of secondary stage !!??
It became a common fact that the one who put these hard exams is suffering from psychological issue.

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