Damascus-Sana
The first stage of the new season of the Syrian scientific Olympics 2019-2020 continued today with the tests of physics, where students from the first secondary grade compete in all governorates and at the school level for an hour and a half at the same time.
The test questions, according to the School of Physics, include Safaa Minawi comprehensive issues based on logical thinking and advanced mental skills, stressing that Syrian students have proven their worth globally.
The students Batoul Shouga Wahba Khlous and Ranin Ghannam expressed their ambition to achieve advanced centers to qualify them to represent Syria in international scientific forums.
Student Sally expressed the hope to overcome the three stages at the level of the governorate and move to the national level, while student Randa Abu Hamda said that the questions ranged between ease and difficulty.
From the martyr Zaid Karbaj high school in the city of Shehba in Sweida, the high school director Hiam Abou Faour said that 30 students from the school participated in physics with some of them to participate in other specialties and rehabilitation through training sessions before the test.
The student Osama Aladdin said that the competition increases their experience and gain new information and prove their previous information, while student Ghazal Tawil said that the competition motivates them to compete and excel and requires thought and focus to answer questions that took into account the levels of students involved.
In Homs, 1300 male and female students from the tenth grade participated in the general, vocational and private secondary schools in the governorate, according to Ahmed Al-Ibrahim, the director of education in 234 centers, indicating that all preparations and procedures have been taken to make this scientific experiment a success.
In Lattakia, 513 students from the first grade of secondary school participated in the physics tests.
For her part, student Joa Ibrahim expressed the importance of participating in this new and useful experience to discover her mental abilities and to see the model of the test and exercise on how to solve the questions during a specific period of time in preparation for the coming seasons.
The students expressed their satisfaction with the encouraging atmosphere that prevailed in the tests, said student Ansam Ali, while student Ahmed Kurdi that the diversity of questions contribute to stimulate the mind of students and show their mental abilities.
The students pointed out that the questions are clear and comprehensive and require raising the mental skill to answer them, expressing their hope to achieve high results that allow them to qualify to the next stages.
In Aleppo, 1250 male and female students from the first grade of secondary school participated in the tests, where Ibrahim Maso, director of education in the governorate, showed that the tests are well done, providing the comfortable atmosphere for the participating students and distributing them to the halls properly, considering that the Syrian scientific Olympiad is a national project aiming to identify cases of excellence and creativity. Through research and investigation of information on the level of educational curricula, pointing to the increasing turnout and participation in these tests year after year and in Hasakah participated in two hundred and twenty-three students representing twenty-three schools in the cities of Hasaka and Qamishli And their countryside with physics tests.
The physics school at Abu Tammam Huda Al-Barni High School indicated that the test questions were comprehensive and sought to measure the student's understanding of the subject.
A number of participating students showed that the questions are easy, comprehensive and fun. Some of them require the realization of the mind and the use of mental skills to reach the correct answer, showing their enthusiasm to pass this test and move to the next stage of the competition.
It is scheduled to conduct chemistry tests at the level of schools on the twenty-first of this month, biology on the twenty-fourth of it and informatics on the twenty-eighth and pass to the second stage at the level of educational complexes a maximum of 50 students in each discipline according to their grades due.
The Syrian Scientific Olympiad competitions are held in a hierarchical and consecutive manner, starting with schools and then at the regional level and then at the provincial level and then at the level of Syria to begin the rehabilitation and training journey starting from the governorates to the central training through the scientific forum held in Damascus in the summer of each year in preparation for international participation. .