Minister of Education and Technical Education Mohamed Abdel-Latif approved the first-round examination results on Tuesday evening, the ministry said.
Under the new system, 883,690 students registered for the examinations, of whom 825,867 attended, and 620,314 passed.
The overall pass rate declined by 4.1 percentage points from the 79.2 percent recorded in 2024/2025, the first year in which the new system was applied.
Pass rates also declined across all three streams compared with the previous academic year.
The science rate fell from 79.6 to 75.4 percent, mathematics from 85.8 to 81.6 percent, and the literary stream from 73.6 to 69.2 percent.
In the new-system science stream, 543,120 students registered, 507,415 sat the examinations and 382,720 passed.
In mathematics, 145,459 students registered, 139,302 attended, and 113,651 passed.
Meanwhile, 195,111 literary-stream students registered, of whom 179,150 attended, and 123,943 passed.
Under the old system, the overall pass rate stood at 72.1 percent, compared with 72.7 percent in the previous academic year.
Of the 4,172 old-system students who registered, 3,620 sat the examinations and 2,610 passed.
The old-system science stream recorded a 74.5 percent pass rate, with 1,578 of the 2,118 students who attended passing.
Mathematics recorded 71.9 percent, with 307 of 427 students passing, while the literary stream registered 67.4 percent, with 725 of 1,075 students succeeding.
Across both systems, 887,862 students registered for the first-round examinations, 829,487 attended and 622,924 passed, according to the ministry’s detailed figures.
Introduced in the 2024/2025 academic year, the new system reduced the number of subjects counted towards students’ final grades and restructured parts of the secondary-school curriculum.
Students repeating examinations continued under the old system.
Thanaweya Amma is Egypt’s national secondary-school leaving examination. Its results determine students’ eligibility for places at public universities and institutes through the centralized university-admission system, known as Tansik.
The results come amid broader changes to secondary education, including the introduction of an optional Egyptian Baccalaureate track alongside Thanaweya Amma.
Parliament has stipulated that the alternative system will be free and optional, while universities must consider students from both tracks when setting admission requirements.
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