Kuwait University Holds First Academic Aptitude Test for First Chance, with 5,995 Students Participating
Kuwait University held the first aptitude test for the first chance on Saturday, with 5,995 students participating in mathematics, Arabic, English, and French.
Translated by Qiyas from كويت نيوز — Original source
Kuwait University held the first session of the “First Chance” for the Academic Aptitude Tests for the 2026-2027 academic year today, Saturday, with 5,995 students participating in mathematics, Arabic, English, and French, offered through both electronic and paper-based formats, alongside a dedicated test for students with disabilities.
University President Dr. Dina Al-Milhim, in a press statement during her inspection of the testing process at the Sabah Al-Salem City campus, attended by Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Saleh and Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs for Evaluation and Measurement Dr. Sulaiman Al-Rafee, emphasized the university’s commitment to deploying its resources to ensure the smooth conduct of the exams and to create a conducive environment that helps students focus and take their tests with ease and reassurance.
Al-Milhim noted that on-site monitoring of the exams allows for direct observation of the proceedings, direct communication with students, their parents, and the supervising committees, and listening to their feedback, all of which contribute to improving and facilitating procedures and enhancing coordination among the entities involved in organizing the exams.
She commended the efforts of the teams and committees working to organize and monitor the exams, highlighting their cooperation and coordination to ensure their regularity, and wished the students success and achievement in their academic journey.
Exam centers were distributed across the administrative building and the colleges of Science, Engineering, Petroleum, Arts, Life Sciences, and Education in the southern buildings, according to the nature of each exam and its submission mechanism.
The electronic exams were held in two sessions: the first from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and the second from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., while the paper-based exams were conducted according to specific schedules for each subject between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
