Tripoli – Saif Al-Nasr Abdel Salam, former head of the Educational Curricula Center at the Ministry of Education under the Dbeibeh government, said that high school graduation exams in Libya are still administered using a single, unified paper in both the east and west of the country, despite nearly 14 years of political and institutional division.
Abdel Salam told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that all exam questions are issued by the National Exam Center in Tripoli. Each exam paper contains full student information, including name, seat number, committee, and desk, ensuring standardized procedures nationwide.
He explained that exam questions are developed using an approved question bank, along with samples created by experts from both eastern and western Libya through educational inspection committees. This process, he said, reflects joint participation from educators across all regions in preparing the exams.
Answer booklets are collected from cities throughout Libya and are subject to central electronic grading at the National Exam Center in Tripoli. Results are then announced from the same center, with no regional discrimination.
Abdel Salam believes that the continued use of unified curricula and exam papers during years of division highlights the resilience of Libya’s educational institutions. “The exam paper and the curricula have withstood years of division,” he said.