The head of the Iranian regime’s Education Evaluation and Quality Assessment Center says that the average GPA for the three main fields of Experimental Sciences, Mathematics, and Humanities in the 12th grade, the final year of high school, is “10.89” (out of 20).
On Wednesday, August 21, Mohsen Zarei, evaluating these scores as “satisfactory,” stated: “There has been a 0.55 increase in scores across the three fields.”
Mr. Zarei also announced that the average GPA for 12th graders in the Experimental Sciences field has reached “12,” in Mathematics “11.82,” and in Humanities “9.13.”
He further stated: “The performance of 10th-grade students has been better compared to those in the 11th and 12th grades.”
According to this education official, the average final exam scores of non-governmental schools in all three grades are lower than those of public schools.
While Mohsen Zarei described this year’s high school students’ scores in Iran as “satisfactory,” some journalists and teachers’ union activists have attributed these scores to poor “policy-making” by the ministry.
In the new academic year, more than 1.19 million students have been deprived of education.
Additionally, the country is facing a shortage of more than 200,000 educational staff, and the share of education in the public budget bill is “9.83 percent.”
Previously, the education policies had faced severe criticism from many professional organizations.
The Iranian regime has recently forced experienced teachers into retirement and has employed clerics as teachers in many schools to exert greater control over the youth.
