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Tawjihicould be the general secondary examination in Jordan, West Bank and Gaza, part of education in Jordan and education in Palestine. Upon graduation, the ministry of Higher Education, through a system similar to that of the United Kingdom tariff points, transforms the Grades/Marks of these foreign educational programs, into the same marks used in grading Tawjihi students. However, despite the equivalency transformation, non-Tawjihi graduates aren't allowed to contend with Tawjihi graduates for public university places. For non-Tawjihi graduates, there is a set quota of 5% of places. Most graduates of foreign programs wind up paying international fees to obtain a invest their desired faculty. The reason behind this, is that the quota set for the number of seats was decided in the 80's when approximately only 4 schools taught international programs, and the amount of places allocated seemed fair. In fact, seeing the insignificant number of foreign program graduates, who sent applications for national universities, it was. Today, nevertheless, very nearly 25 schools teach IGCSE/GCSE/GCE programs alone.

Some argue the number of places is significantly more than fair, and some the opposite. In all cases the issue is a source of much heated debate. Private schools are constantly trying to convince the National Assembly of Jordan to increase percentage. For the anatawjihi.combeing there seems to be no plan to do so.

The ministry of Education claims that it has no problem with increasing the number of places, and it is in fact the universities that do maybe not agree. On some level this is rather true, as universities benefit more by the registration of more students as international i. e. paying international fees.

Still another supply of trouble may be the system used to transform exam results of foreign education programs into the anatawjihi scale, which is a percentage out of 100. Again, some see the system as fair and in fact over lenient with non-Tawjihi graduates, while others view it as unfair. Below is just a summary of the requirements to get an equivalency of Tawjihi, as stated by the British Council Jordan.