The rules of passing, success and promotion (tarfee’) differ from one stage to another. In the first stage where basic subjects must be focused in the child’s brain, the student does not progress to the next term until he passes all basic subjects in this stage. If the student fails one of the basic subjects, he must repeat all the course’s subjects. For instance, a child who cannot read, fails Islamic culture or cannot undertake the counting exercises adopted for the term cannot transfer to the next term.

Where the student fails any term of the first stage, he must repeat it in the immediate following term and he cannot take a holiday except after completing 3 consecutive terms after his failure…and so on until he completes the first school stage. If the student attains 10 years without successfully transferring to the second stage (middle), expert educators investigate his case in order to advise whether to transfer him to the second stage (middle) or to a special school for educating slow learners.

Where the student fails one of the basic subjects in this stage, he is promoted to the next term together with the subject such that he sits its exam together with the exams of the next terms’ subjects giving the student enough time to study and understand the subject he failed. The school also gets enough time to offer additional courses to strengthen the students in the subject they failed.