• What are the requirements for the local equivalency (2022 -2023)?

 

1: The student is required to complete 12 years of schooling where he/she shall be officially enrolled in the American Program for the last 3 years (10 -11 &12). Exceptions apply to the British (IGCSE) & IB programs students who finish grade 10 and join the American Program in grade 11.

2: The school must be officially accredited by an American accreditation agncy and its high school trainscripts shall be officially certified by the AmidEast in Amman.

3: The students who are graduating from the Jordanian Schools are expected to pass the following subjects in grades (10 -11 &12):

 

Arabic, Islamic Education (for the Muslim Student ONLY), Jordan History, in addition to the American High School Dimploma subjects.

 

4: SAT 1 exam is equivalent to one ACT Subject test, but the exam date must be from March.2023 (digital) and onwards.

 

5: The Equivalency Options:

 

Students can choose one of the following options:

 

1. Six ACT Subject Tests.

Three of these subjects’ exams must be scientific including Mathemeatics to obtain the scientific equivalency:

 

• 25% grade 10,11 &12 grades
• 75% six ACT Subjects tests.

 

1. Four ACT subject tests+ one AP exam OR Four ACT subject tests + ACT 1

Three of these exams must be scientific including Mathematics to obtain the secintific equivalency

• 25% :grade 10,11 &12 grades
• 50% four ACT subject tests
• 25% one AP exam OR ACT 1

 

 

1. Two ACT subjects tests +Two AP exams

Three of these exams must be scientific including Mathematics to obtain the scientific equivalency

• 25%: grade 10,11&12 grades
• 25% two ACT subject tests
• 50 % two AP exams

 

1. Three AP exams

Two of these exams must be scientific to obtain the scientific equivalency

• 25% :grade 10 ,11 &12 grades
• 75 % three AP exams

 

1. Two AP exams + ACT 1 exam

The AP exams, in this case must be both scientific to obtain the scientific equivalency

• 25% 10 ,11 &12 grades
• 50 % two AP exams
• 25% ACT 1

 

1. Two ACT subject Tests+ One AP exam + ACT 1

Three of these exmas must be scientific including Mathematics to obtain the scientific equivalency.

• 25% :10 ,11 &12 grades
• 25% two ACT Subject Tests
• 25 % one AP exam
• 25% ACT 1

 

NOTE: if a student is not willing to consider grades 10,11 &12 in the equivalency, he/she can substitute them with any external exam with the same weight ( two ACT subject tests, or one AP or ACT 1).

 

 

6: The following subjects are optional (literary) alternatives for the aformenentioned   ACT subject Tests:

• Islamic Education , Jordan History and Arabic (MOE)
• Arabic IGCSE (A- Level)
• Arabic A (IB)

 

 

NOTE: AP Art exams, including AP drawing , is equivalent to ONE ACT subject test (not two) except for the students who have taken it in grade 11 ( 2019 -2020).

 

 

7: The following grading scales are the newly adopted ones for the equivalency.

 

• ACT 1 & ACT Subject Tests

 

 

• SAT Subject Test (SAT II)

• Advanced Placement (AP) :

 

• (SAT I)