Go to RISE Admission Policy

Go to RISE Admission Policy

Students must complete the requirements during grades 9-12 and have a total of 25 credits to graduate. Therefore, RISE High School students have to pass from all the core subjects each year from grade 9 to grade 12. For more information, please check RISE Grade Promotion Policy

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Please refer to the information below about distribution of the credits:

RISE students do not take Vezary Exam for graduation. Students must complete the requirements during grades 9-12 and have a total of 25 credits to graduate. Therefore, RISE High School students have to pass from all the core subjects each year from grade 9 to grade 12. For more information, please check RISE Grade Promotion Policy

Vezary Exam is also not a requirement for RISE students to attend a college and university. Although the SAT is not a requirement for graduation, RISE students have to take the SAT to go to universities in Kurdistan.

RISE students go to universities in Kurdistan when they achieve required standards in SAT, SAT Subject Tests, and Grade Point Average (GPA). Please refer to SAT Information Chart for requirements for admission to Kurdistan Universities.

Q. Do I have to take Nishtimani Exam at grade 9?

Since RISE is an international school, RISE students do not take Nishtimani Exam at grade 9. RISE complies with the American school system, so Grade 9 is considered as the first grade of High School.

Please check RISE Parent-Student Handbook and Grade Promotion Policy

Transfer students from private or public schools which follow the KRG Ministry of Education curriculum must bring their transcripts from the previous school. The transcripts must be approved by KRG Ministry of Education.

Transfer students from an international school must bring transcripts approved by Department of International Schools of KRG Ministry of Education.

All the new students must comply with RISE Admission Procedures and submit the required documents stated in RISE Admission Policy.

The SAT Test is not a requirement for graduation. Students must complete the requirements during grades 9-12 and have a total of 25 credits to graduate.

Although the SAT is not a requirement for graduation, RISE students have to take the SAT to go to universities in Kurdistan.

Besides, students who will go abroad to study university need a benchmark score of 800 from SAT, which will be required to get the document that states “The student is eligible to study university in Kurdistan.” This document is required by universities in many countries as an approval from local authorities.

For more information go to RISE Grade Promotion Policy

Vezary

Vezary Exam is not a requirement for RISE students to attend a college and university. Although the SAT is not a requirement for graduation, RISE students have to take the SAT to go to universities in Kurdistan.

RISE students go to universities in Kurdistan when they achieve required standards in SAT, SAT Subject Tests, and Grade Point Average (GPA). Please refer to SAT Information Chart for requirements for admission to Kurdistan Universities.

The SAT  is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States and some other countries. Introduced in 1926, its name and scoring have changed several times; originally called the Scholastic Aptitude Test, it was later called the Scholastic Assessment Test, then the SAT I: Reasoning Test, then the SAT Reasoning Test, and now, simply the SAT.

The SAT is owned, developed, and published by the College Board, a private, non-profit organization in the United States. It is administered on behalf of the College Board by the Educational Testing Service, which until recently developed the SAT as well. The test is intended to assess students’ readiness for college. The SAT was originally designed to not be aligned with high school curricula, but several adjustments were made for the version of the SAT introduced in 2016, and College Board president, David Coleman, has said that he also wanted to make the test reflect more closely what students learned in high school.

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1. Is SAT exam enough for college admission for KRG Universities?

Besides the SAT, GPA (Grade Point Average which is the average of grades 9,10,11,12 scores) is also taken into consideration in university admission. All students have to take SAT General (SAT 1) in order to go to universities in KRG. Some majors require the SAT Subject Test (SAT 2) for college and university admission.

All students must maintain a yearly average of 60% (D) in each subject. Students who receive a failing grade “F” (below 60%) in any of the subjects will be required to take and pass the make-up tests at the end of the school year in order to be promoted. Any passing score in makeup test will be 60%.

For more information go to RISE Grading Policy and Grade Promotion Policy

All candidate students must submit a recommendation form (reference letter) providing information about the student`s current academic achievement and discipline from the previous school.

You can download the reference letter from here.