495,000 new students were evaluated/ the first grade screening file will be closed in the middle of September

Hamid Tarifi Hosseini, Deputy Minister of Education and Head of the Exceptional Education Organization of the country, in a conversation with an education reporter about the assessment of physical health and academic readiness of new students upon entering primary school, stated: 980 thousand people have so far completed the assessment and 495 1000 first graders were measured until today, although in this statistic, maybe a very small percentage of preschool children.

Stating that mostly preschoolers come in Shahrivar and Mehr months to assess their physical health and academic readiness, he said: Our plan is to assess first graders first and then we will assess preschoolers.

Tarifi Hosseini added: In the past years, the assessment of the first graders took a long time and continued until October and November, but our plan is to finish the physical health and academic readiness assessment of the first graders by the middle of September.

Stating that we are increasing the number of measurement bases and making some bases double-shift, he continued: We have 1,200 primary bases and 800 specialized bases; We also have about 400 mobile bases that are generally activated at the end of the assessment period.

Emphasizing that we have 200 requests to hold assessment centers in the evening shift, the head of the country’s exceptional education organization said: By the middle of September, the assessment file for the first graders will be closed and after that the assessment of preschoolers will continue.

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