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Administration of the Physical Council
Baghdad
Number 2478
Date 26 / 6 / 1933
Subject: Summer Vacation and Examinations
To all School Directorates
You will find below a copy of the resolutions of the Examination Committee taken at its meeting held on 25 / 6 / 933
I hope to present it to your directorate to act accordingly;
⟦illegible⟧
The Secretary
For information
A copy of it to the Directorate of Gan Yeladim School
Respected Members of the Committee
The Israelite Schools Examination Committee met on the afternoon of Sunday, June 25, 1933, with the directors
of the schools and teachers from each school and decided the following:
1) Schools shall close on Sunday, July 23, 933, and open on Tuesday, October 17, 933
2) Examinations may not begin before the fifth day of July 933
3) All examinations for the preparatory classes, the first and second grades, and History, Geography, and Objects in the third grade shall be conducted orally, practically, and in writing according to the subjects
4) No more than thirty fils shall be taken from each student as an examination fee, provided that the administration provides everything required of notebooks and stationery for writing answers, and that the elite student from every tuition fee pays no more than 15 fils as an examination fee
5) The administration must send the examination grades and results to the committee no later than four days after the completion of each examination
6) A pupil in one of the primary classes who obtains less than fifty degrees out of a hundred in two subjects is considered to have a deficiency, with the exception of the Alliance School only
7) The administration must send a copy of the examination schedule to the committee three days before the start
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SHAMASH SCHOOL
Baghdad
Shamash School
Baghdad
2/27/1944
Dear respected Shalom Effendi
After greetings: An error occurred in transcribing the decisions
of the Examination Committee recorded under number 2478 in the records
of the Physical Council administration.
The third paragraph of the aforementioned decision must
be as follows:
"All examinations for the preparatory classes and the first
and second grades, and History, Geography, and Objects in
the third grade shall be conducted orally only. As for the remaining grades,
examinations shall be conducted orally, practically, and in writing according
to the subjects."
S. M. Kallay
Sincerely
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Administration of the Physical Council
Baghdad
Number 2291
Date 1933/6/28
Subject: Amendment of a paragraph from the decisions of the Examination Committee
Please read the third paragraph of the decisions of the Examination Committee listed in the letter of this department No. 2378
dated yesterday as follows:
(All examinations for the preparatory classes and the first and second grades, and history and geography
for the third grade shall be conducted orally only. As for the rest of the grades, examinations shall be conducted orally and in writing according to the subjects)
The Secretary
A copy of it to
All school directorates
Directorate of Karen Jeildim School
Honorable members of the Examination Committee
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Administration of the Lay Council
Baghdad
Number 2476
Date June 16, 1933
Subject: Your appointment as an additional member of the Examination Committee
The Honorable and Distinguished Lawyer Anwar Effendi Shaul
After greetings,
We had previously assigned the distinguished gentlemen Ezra Effendi Menachem, Ezra Effendi Al-Ani, and Moussa Effendi
Ita to form a committee to supervise the final examinations, the date of which is approaching in our schools, and to oversee everything related
to the affairs of these examinations. We have now deemed it necessary for you to be an additional member of the
aforementioned committee.
Since the esteemed committee has recently met and made some decisions, a copy of which will be sent to you
shortly, we hope that you will meet with the members of the committee and agree on setting dates for meetings. May God grant you success in what is
good for the Iraqi nation in general and the community in particular;
⟦signature⟧
Vice President of the Lay Council
A copy of it to the distinguished gentlemen, members of the committee, for information
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WATANIYAH SCHOOL
Baghdad 193
No.
Al-Wataniyah School
Date: June 27, 1933
Number: 65
To the Honorable
President of the Physical Council
Greetings and respect,
We hereby submit the schedule for the written examinations of our school. As for the oral examinations,
they will be conducted according to the weekly schedule for each class, starting from the fifth day
of the month of June, provided that no disruption occurs in the normal course of lessons in
the rest of the classes.
May you remain respected.
⟦signature⟧
Director of Al-Wataniyah School
File
2
Form No. 7 — 500 — 1 — 1933
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WATANIYAH SCHOOL
Baghdad 193
No.
Al-Wataniyah School
Date:
Number:
Final Examinations Curriculum
For the year 1922 - 1923
Preparatory Department
Days | Date | Date | Subjects for Section A | Subjects for Section B
Wednesday | 11 June | 18 June | Arithmetic |
Thursday | 12 | 19 | Geometry | English
Friday | 14 | 20 | Geography |
Sunday | 16 | 22 | Arabic |
Monday | 17 | 23 | English | Arabic
Tuesday | 17 | 24 | General Science |
Wednesday | 18 | 25 | Ethics | Arithmetic Geometry
Thursday | 25 | 26 | History |
Friday | 21 | 27 | |
Sunday | 22 | 29 | |
Distribution of Grades
| Fifth | | Third A
Section A | Fourth A | Section B | Third B
| Fourth B | |
⟦illegible signature⟧
Director of Al-Wataniyah School
Form No. 7 - 500 - 1 - 1933
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Urgent
It has been decided to establish the following instructions regarding this year's exams and to follow them
strictly:
First: Providing the school with preliminary report forms regarding the conduct of the exam
and filling them out in two copies for each subject, one to be kept with the exam papers and the second
to be sent to this department via the principal one day before the date of the exam for that subject.
Second: Written exams must be conducted by the teachers on papers
of a uniform format and stamped with the school seal.
Third: It is highly recommended that the exam examiners, especially those conducted in
the Arabic language, be of non-Israeli individuals, selected by the school administration and the responsible
teacher.
⟦signature⟧
Vice President of the Israeli Physical Council
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Baghdad (Al-Riwaq Street)
Reference Number
Memorandum
From :: Lawyer Anwar Shaul
To ::
£
⟦Date⟧
1- Please allocate a single file for each school. In it, its official papers shall be kept
day by day, for example, in terms of date, but after sending its replies to you
today. Even if the school file ⟦matter⟧ did not submit anything, draw the administration's attention ⟦as quickly as possible⟧
2- Send me what reaches you day by day
4- I fear that the forms for the ⟦Mechanisms⟧ school have been lost
for many reports have been submitted
⟦Signature⟧
7/10/1942
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2161
July 10, 1933.
Examination Forms.
Directorate of Shamash School.
Further to our circular No. 2401 dated July 4, 1933.
I have been instructed to draw your directorate's attention to the necessity of expediting the submission of the examination forms
requested in the first paragraph of our aforementioned letter.
⟦...⟧
The Secretary.
⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧
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Baghdad
Date ⟦26⟧ July 1933
⟦2181⟧
Examination Committee
Subject: Number of students in classes
To all school directorates
School Directorate
The Examination Committee wishes to be informed of the number of students in each class in your school at the beginning of this
academic year and their number at its end.
In the event of a significant decrease in the number, please provide your observations on the reasons that
you believe led to that.
⟦No⟧
⟦signature⟧
Vice President of the Physical Council
1212
. 66310 Journal Entry 10
. Examination Instructions
. Head of the Education Department
. 66310 Journal Entry 3 in Ledger 1037 and in the General Minutes
The attached examination instructions that were decided upon, especially regarding final examinations
. Including arrangements and reporting suggestions in this regard
⟦illegible⟧
⟦The Director⟧
Year
⟦illegible⟧
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Administration of the Physical Council
Baghdad
Number 2182
Date July 16, 1933
Subject: Certificate Examinations
To all school directorates
School Directorate
It is required that you submit to the Examination Committee (after completing the final
examinations) lists containing the examination results (a list for each class). These lists shall include
the following information:
1) Names of the students in each class
2) The grades obtained by the student in each subject
3) Total grades
4) Examination result (Pass, Incomplete, or Fail)
5) Arrangement of names according to the total grades obtained by the student
⟦illegible⟧
Vice President of the Physical Council
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Administration of the Lay Council
Baghdad
Number 2182
Date July 16, 1933
Certificate Examinations
To all school directorates
Please provide the Examination Committee with the following information:
1) Names of students who <del>entered</del> entered any certificate examination whatsoever
2) Examination result
3) Student's age
4) In which year they joined the school
This information includes the female students of the Laura Kadoorie School
⟦signature⟧
Vice President of the Lay Council
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Administration of the Lay Council
Baghdad
Number 2182
Date July 16, 1933
Certificate Examinations
To all school directorates
Please provide the Examination Committee with the following information:
(1) Names of students who <del>entered</del> entered any certificate examination whatsoever
(2) Examination result
(3) Student's age
(4) In which year they joined the school
This information includes the female students of the Laura Kadoorie School
⟦illegible⟧
⟦signature⟧
Vice President of the Lay Council
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2179
16 July 1933
Exam grades for Laura Kadoorie
Directorate of Alliance Schools
We have understood from the Examination Committee that your directorate has not submitted the grades of the female students of the Laura Kadoorie School
as requested of you in our circular No. 2378 dated 26 / 6 / 1933 (Paragraph 5)
In truth, we are surprised by this delay on your part in submitting these grades and we emphasize to you the necessity of
submitting the required information to the committee immediately,
⟦signature⟧
⟦signature⟧
Vice President of the Physical Council
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His Excellency the President of the Lay Council, the Respected
After greetings and respect,
I submit to your Excellency that I am a student in the second secondary grade at Shamash School. I have failed the exam results
in four subjects. Since I believe in my ability and that I do not deserve to fail, I beg your Excellency
to order the referral of my case to the special committee to reconsider my exam papers in which I failed,
as reconsidering the records is a system followed in the Ministry of Education.
With highest respect to your Excellency,
The student at Shamash School
Ezra Munshi Sweid
⟦signature⟧
22 / 7 / 48
His Excellency the Vice President,
Greetings. We will receive other petitions of this type, and a decision is requested by their owners, as the petitioner requests,
to reconsider the exams in which they believe their failure was unfair.
The Ministry of Education has solved this problem in this way:-
1- Every student has the right to request a reconsideration of the subject in which he believes he has been treated unfairly
when correcting his exam papers.
2- In order not to multiply the requests for reconsideration, the student requesting reconsideration must provide a deposit of a quarter
dinar for each subject he requests to be reconsidered. If it appears upon reconsideration that he is right in his request,
the amount is returned to him; otherwise, he loses it.
3- A single committee is formed <del>comprising</del> other than the teachers ⟦illegible⟧ (a teacher for each subject) to whom
the reconsideration of the exam papers is entrusted.
4- The wages of the committee members shall either be in the form of ⟦illegible⟧ additional allocations (a flat fee
for each paper reconsidered) or be from the revenues resulting from the reconsideration, with the surplus
returning to them. The first opinion is more likely because the second opinion may affect the process of reconsiderations
in a fair manner, so reconsideration requests are accepted immediately.
5- That these serve, reconsideration requests are accepted immediately.
I suggest that a letter be addressed to the Examination Committee with a proposal based on these principles to form
a similar committee in the community schools.
H. S.
The Director
24 / 7 / 948
Approved ⟦illegible⟧
D / 87
6621 in 21
To the Honorable Chairman of the Schools Committee
After greetings and respect
We attach herewith the expense lists for the Alliance School for Girls ending on January 31 of the year
(5 pages) 26/3/6621 in letter 8766 in the budget and your account for it
Accordingly, we kindly request you to settle it from there and provide us with the remainder, if any, to enable us to continue
the work, and to you much thanks and gratitude
Please accept the assurances of our highest respect
⟦signature⟧
Head of the Alliance School for Girls
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Administration of the Lay Council
Baghdad
Number 2207
Date July 26, 1933
Urgent
The Honorable Ezra Effendi Eliyahu Mani
" " The Honorable Moussa Effendi Absha
" " The Honorable Lawyer Anwar Effendi Shaul
Honorable Members of the Examination Committee
After greetings,
Many school students are approaching us claiming that their failure in the exam was
unfair. Therefore, I request your committee to study the following proposals and issue the necessary decision in this regard
and inform us of the result so that we may act accordingly:
1) A committee shall be formed from the best teachers of our schools to be entrusted with the task of re-evaluating the examination papers.
2) Every student has the right to request a re-evaluation of any examination paper, provided the request is submitted within
a limited period specified by the committee.
3) In order to prevent such requests from being submitted without valid reason, the student requesting a re-evaluation must provide
a cash deposit of a quarter dinar for each subject they request a re-evaluation for, to be refunded if it appears
in the result that they were right in their claim; otherwise, they shall lose it.
4) The committee's decision shall be final.
5) After the end of the specified period for accepting re-evaluation requests, the committee shall meet and audit the examination
papers, provided that the teacher who re-evaluates is not the same teacher who conducted the exam.
6) The teacher shall receive a flat fee determined by the committee for each paper they re-evaluate, to be paid to them
from the proceeds of the re-evaluations mentioned in paragraph (3).
⟦signature⟧
Vice President of the Lay Council
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The Israeli Alliance
ALLIANCE ISRAÉLITE UNIVERSELLE
Laura Kadoorie Girls' School
ECOLE DE FILLES
"LAURA KADOORIE"
Baghdad ⟦22⟧ July ⟦1942⟧ Bagdad, le
Direction ⟦line⟧
To the Honorable President of the Lay Council
Greetings and respect, the school administration is honored to send the grades
of its final examinations for the Noam and Laura Kadoorie schools
The School
⟦R. Sasson⟧
The Examinations
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Administration of the Lay Council
of the Israelite Community
Baghdad
Number: 2577
Date: June 6, 1934
To all Directorates of Israelite Schools
Reference to the discussion that took place in your meeting at the Community Administration yesterday evening (Tuesday
June 5, 1934)
I set out below a copy of the agreed resolutions regarding the final examinations for this year
and the summer vacation
1) Written examinations in the primary classes begin on July 1, 1934, and end on the 16th of it
2) Distribution of examination result papers takes place on the 17th and 18th of the mentioned month
3) Schools close on the morning of Thursday, July 19, 1934
4) The administration may begin conducting the oral examinations referred to below one week before
the start of the written examinations, provided that this does not disrupt the school schedule (meaning that
students do not leave school before eleven o'clock in the morning)
5) The times for conducting secondary class examinations are determined by the administration of the relevant school
6) All examinations for the preparatory classes, first and second grades, and the subjects of history, geography
and objects in the third grade are conducted orally and practically; as for the remaining classes, examinations are conducted in writing according to
the subjects
7) No more than thirty fils shall be taken from each student as an examination fee, provided that the student is supplied by
the administration with all necessary examination materials such as notebooks and stationery for writing answers, provided the director considers reducing
this amount for students exempted from school fees
8) The administration must send the examination grades and results to the Council after the completion of each examination
within four days at most
9) A student in one of the primary classes who obtains less than fifty marks out of one hundred in two subjects
is considered to have a makeup exam, and the Alliance school is excluded from this
10) The administration must send a copy of the examination schedule to the Council three days before
the start
11) Schools open on the morning of Sunday, October 7, 1934
⟦illegible⟧
Secretary
A copy of it to
The virtuous Director of the Gan Yeladim School, respected
With reference to her letter dated June 6, 934
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GAN HAILADIM SCHOOL
Gan Hailadim School
"Menahem Saleh Daniel"
"Menahem Saleh Daniel"
44/115 Takia street
44/115 Taht al-Takia
Baghdad on: June 6, 1924
Baghdad, the: 1924
To the Honorable Vice President of the Lay Council.
Greetings and respect. Furthermore, I hope you will be kind enough to inform me of the date
of the closing of the Jewish schools this year for the summer vacation. I request this
at the earliest possible opportunity to make the necessary arrangements for the final exams
in our school.
Also, please inform me of the date of the opening of the schools at the beginning of the
next academic year if you are able to do so.
Please accept my highest respect
And remain in peace
Mary Qanawati
School Principal
Administration of the Lay Council - Baghdad
247
Date 6 / 6 / 924
File number ⟦illegible⟧
Save. Send the answer
By hand
6/6/924
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RAHEL SHAHMOON SCHOOL
Rahel Shahmoon School
No.:
Number:
Baghdad:
Baghdad on:
19:
19:
His Excellency the President of the Honorable Lay Council
Greetings and respect
With reference to your circular No. 2577 dated June 6, 944
I hereby submit a copy of the final exam curriculum for the year 43 / 944 for our school
per Article 10 of the aforementioned circular, and may you remain [in peace]
Administration of the Lay Council - Baghdad
Number 2280
Date 20 / 6 / 944
File Number 8
Rahel Shahmoon School
The Director
⟦signature⟧
To be registered. To be kept in a temporary file. And when the
curriculum of this type is complete, it shall be presented to me
⟦signature⟧
16 / 6 / 944
To be kept in the examinations file
⟦signature⟧
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Rachel Shahmoon School
Final Exam Curriculum for the year 22 / 924
Day | Date | Sixth Grade | Fifth Grade | Fourth Grade | Third Grade | Second Grade | First Grade | Notes
Sunday | 1 July | 18 July | Arithmetic | Arithmetic | Composition | Arithmetic | Geography | —
Monday | 2 " | 19 " | Geometry | Geography | (1) Arabic Oral | Objects | Composition | —
Tuesday | 3 " | 20 " | Arabic | Objects | (2) " " | Arabic | Arabic | —
Wednesday | 4 " | 21 " | Geography | Geometry | History | English | English | —
Thursday | 5 " | 22 " | Ethics | History | Arabic (1) | Arabic (Grammar) | Arithmetic | —
Friday | 6 " | 23 " | History | Arabic | (2) " | (Translation) " | Anthem | —
Sunday | 8 " | 25 " | Composition | English | English (1) | Geography | Sports | —
Monday | 9 " | 26 " | English | Arabic | (2) " | History | Crafts | —
Tuesday | 10 " | 27 " | Arabic | — | — | Sports | Drawing | —
Wednesday | 11 " | 28 " | (1) Arabic Written | (1) English Written | Arithmetic | Anthem | History | —
Thursday | 12 " | 29 " | (2) " " | (2) " " | Geometry | Drawing | Arabic Translation | —
Friday | 13 " | 30 July | (1) English | (1) Arabic | Geography | Handiwork | Arabic (Grammar) | —
Sunday | 15 " | 3 " | (2) " | (2) " | Arabic | — | — | —
Monday | 16 " | 4 " | Holiday on the occasion of the death of Rachel Shahmoon, the school founder | | | | |
Tuesday | 17 " | 5 " | Teachers' Meeting | | | | |
Wednesday | 18 " | 6 " | Distribution of Exam Papers | | | | |
24 / 6 / 11
The Director
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Masooda Salman School
Baghdad
MASOODA SALMAN SCHOOL
BAGHDAD
No. :: 211
Date :: 26 June 944
Subject :: Final Examinations Curriculum 43 - 44
No.:
Date:
Sobject:
His Excellency, the Honorable President of the Lay Council
Greetings and respect
We enclose herewith a copy of the final examinations curriculum 43 - 44 for our school for your review with
respect ⟦Sir⟧
The Director
⟦Mashhat⟧
Administration of the Lay Council - Baghdad
Number 211
Date 26 / 6 / 944
File Number ⟦64⟧