Overall pass rate for Shamel exam at 61.24%
The overall pass rate of the 2025 winter session of the Shamel exam, the annual comprehensive final exam for community college students, reached 61.24%, Al Balqa Applied University President and the head of the higher committee of the exam Ahmed Ajlouni, announced on Thursday.
Ajlouni said that about 6,903 male and female students from 53 university colleges and intermediate university colleges supervised by Al-Balqa Applied University took the exams, of whom 4,228 male and female students passed.
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