Matakan karatu sun ƙunshi zangwanni talatin da shida (36) a jere, kowanne daga cikinsu kwana tamanin da uku (83). An ba kowane zangwani rukunin darussan koyarwa. Ɗalibi yana fara matakan karatu da zangwani na farko. Ana ƙara masa daraja zuwa zangwani na gaba idan ya ci jarrabawar karatun, har sai ya kammala matakan karatu ta hanyar kammala dukkan zangwanni talatin da shida cikin nasara. Shekarar Hijira an raba ta zuwa zangwanni huɗu daidai gwargwado a lokaci-lokaci, tare da tazarar hutun ɗalibai na kwana uku (3) tsakanin kowane zangwani. Jadawalin da ke ƙasa ya nuna ranakun fara da kammala kowane zangwani, da tazarar hutun da ke raba darussan.

School stages are composed of thirty-six (36) consecutive terms, each being eighty-three (83) days. Each term is assigned a group of teaching units. The student commences school stages with the first term. He is promoted upon succeeding in a course to the next one until he completes the school stages by successfully completing all thirty-six terms. The Hijri year is divided into four periodically equal terms, with a student holiday break interval of three (3) days between each term. The following chart demonstrates the commencement and completion dates of each term, and the break intervals separating the courses:

CHATI: JADAWALIN SHEKARA DA HUTUN MAKARANTA

CHART: ANNUAL SCHOOL Courses and HOLIDAYS

Yaro yana shiga makaranta nan take bayan ya cika shekaru shida bisa kalandar Hijira. Saboda haka, makarantun gwamnati za su karɓi sababbin ɗalibai a farkon kowane zangon karatu daga cikin zangwanni huɗu na kowace shekara, watau kusan kowane wata uku. Yaro zai iya shiga zangon karatu na farko (daga cikin huɗun da ake da su a shekara) mafi kusa da lokacin da ya cika shekaru shida bisa kalandar Hijira.

The child enters school immediately upon completing six years of age according to the Hijri calendar. Accordingly, State schools will accept new students at the beginning of each school term of the four terms of each year i.e. approximately every three months. The child is able to enter the first school term (of the four available in the year) nearest to his attaining six years of age according to the Hijri calendar.

Ɗalibi zai iya hutawa na zangon karatu ɗaya kawai bayan kowane zango uku a jere a kalla, amma kuma yana iya ci gaba da karatunsa ba tare da wani irin hutu ba. Don haka tsarin yana bai wa ɗalibi mai kishi damar kammala matakan makaranta cikin ƙanƙanin lokaci fiye da takwarorinsa, ta hanyar ci gaba da karatunsa cikin nasara a cikin zangunan karatu ba tare da ɗaukar lokutan hutu ba, ko rage su. Ƙungiyar lokacin karatu shi ne zangon karatu, wanda ya ƙunshi kwanaki 83, ba shekara ba; kowane zango yana da nasa tsarin karatun darussa da nasa ɗalibai.

The student can rest one school term only after every three consecutive terms at the least, but he can also continue his study without any such rest. Thus the system enables the serious student to complete the school stages in a shorter time than his contemporaries by continuing his studies within the school terms successfully without taking the rest periods or reducing them. The study time unit is the school term which is composed of 83 days and not the annual year; each term has its own subject curriculum and students.

Ɗalibin da ya ci gaba da karatunsa cikin nasara ba tare da ɗaukar hutu ba zai iya kammala zangon karatu talatin da shida cikin shekara tara (36/4=9 shekaru), a lokacin da zai kammala matakan makaranta idan ya cika shekara 15 da haihuwa. Idan kuma ya yi karatun zangon karatu talatin da shida a matsakaicin zangon karatu uku kacal a kowace shekara, watau yana hutawa zangon karatu ɗaya bayan kowane zangon karatu uku a jere, tare da kammala dukkan zangunan cikin nasara, to zai kammala matakan makaranta cikin shekara goma sha biyu (36/3=12 shekaru), a lokacin da zai kammala matakan makaranta idan ya kai shekara 18 da haihuwa.

The student who continues his school terms successfully without taking any leave can complete thirty-six terms in nine years (36/4=9 years) whereupon he would have completed the school stages upon completing 15 years of age. If he studies the thirty-six terms at an average of only three school terms every year i.e. by usually resting one school term after every three consecutive terms, together with successfully completing all terms, he would complete the school stages in twelve years (36/3=12 years) whereupon he would complete the school stages upon attaining 18 years of age.