Khaberni - Nawaf Al-Ajarmeh, the Secretary-General for Educational Affairs at the Ministry of Education, sent a message to the students taking the General Secondary Education Examination (Tawjihi) in the winter session, the text of which follows:
(You are greater than a test... and nobler than a result, a generation of hope advancing confidently towards success.)
To our sons and daughters, the General Secondary Education students in your supplementary session for the year 2025
I address you today not from a mere administrative position nor a job title, but from a place of national trust that is not measured by position but is derived from the confidence of a state that made education the cornerstone of its renaissance, knowledge the guide of its path, and the human being its primary goal... It is a word that springs from the heart of the educational system and reaches you, as its living core, and the continuation of its legacy, and the bearers of its standard in the near future.
You stand before an exam that surpasses being a mere test of individuals to become a national entitlement, an exam managed by the state agencies with their wisdom, safeguarded by their will, and guarded for its fairness by their educational conscience. It is a national duty for which energies are mobilized, efforts are united, and details are built on solid foundations of integrity and equal opportunities, to be a true reflection of your efforts, and a fair platform that accurately reflects your rightful entitlement without increase or decrease.
This examination has been prepared with meticulous care and high professionalism, based on an educational philosophy that sees the exam as a tool of fairness not confusion, a space for reassurance not tension, and a window of hope not a wall of pressure. The Department of Examinations and Testing at the Ministry of Education has prepared this national duty within high scientific and professional frameworks, and through comprehensive institutional coordination with the relevant departments at the ministry, ensuring the integrity, fairness, and credibility of the examination construction. Meanwhile, the examinations departments in all educational directorates are playing their supporting executive role, by working with the exam committees in the directorates, equipping the halls with qualified personnel including heads of halls, monitors, assistants, and support committees, based on clear standards and precise criteria, in a collective effort that functions as one body, one heart, and one mind, keeping the scale of justice balanced, ensuring every student feels their rights are preserved, their efforts appreciated, and their future respected.
My sons and daughters... Enter the examination halls with the tranquility of someone solid in their confidence, steady as one who knows their worth and their effort, and focused as the knowledgeable not as the anxious. Make the regulations and instructions governing the exam a framework of security for you, a guide to justice that preserves your rights, and prepares a calm and balanced environment for you, helping you to demonstrate your knowledge clearly and providing you with confidence in your performance in an atmosphere of discipline and mutual respect. Make time your companion, and the question an opportunity to reveal what lies in your minds of knowledge, and what resides in your souls of determination. For knowledge never fails those who are devoted to it, effort is never wasted when given sincerely, and the road, no matter how long, opens its horizons to those who tread it steadily and with determination.
And remember that this session, no matter how great its impact on your souls, is not the end of your dream, but a pivotal station of its journey, and life is broader than an exam, and more spacious than a result.
For the doors of knowledge do not close; rather, they multiply and expand for those who have the will and believe that learning is a continuous path and that true construction begins from the mind and ends with serving the nation. For Jordan does not just wait for a certificate from you, but awaits a living thought, a vigilant conscience, a productive mind, and a spirit believing that excellence is a responsibility, success a commitment, and knowledge a mission.
At this moment, you are not alone; behind you is a ministry that places education at the forefront of its priorities, works to provide a fair and safe examination environment, believes in your abilities, and bets on your awareness. And behind you are teachers who have carried the message of education faithfully, who have given their effort, time, and thought, planted knowledge with patience, nurtured determination by example, and accompanied your journey day by day, believing that building humans is the greatest investment for the nation. And behind you are parents who have stayed up and prayed, and a whole nation trusting that you are up to the expectations.
Proceed to your examinations knowing that you are performing a national duty, writing a bright line in your journey, and participating in building a future that is only built through the efforts of the educated, the minds of the diligent, and the souls that believe that knowledge is the firmest path to uplift and dignity.
I ask God to grant you success, to fortify your hearts, and to make success your ally as the fruit of accumulated effort, the beginning of a wider horizon of ambition, work, and achievement, and a path that opens before you the prospects of self-confidence, the ability to contribute, and making a difference, and to be as Jordan and His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al-Hussein, may God protect him, want you to be—youth faithful and armed with knowledge, confident in their capacities, loyal to their nation, capable of carrying its message, and preserving its achievements.
And God is the guardian of success.
