The EST Academic Board oversees the test creation and validity of the EST.
Academic Assessment Ltd. and York Press Limited, London, UK, own the EST.
The EST I is designed to enable students to apply to universities, while the EST II is required by certain colleges.
The EST I includes 2 mandatory sections: (1) Literacy: Reading and Writing and (2) Math.
The EST I tackles communication skills, comprehension, critical and logical reasoning; all these are basic requirements for a university student. The EST I also includes an optional essay section measuring students' language writing skills.
The EST II is a subject-based test in Science and Math. The EST subject tests cover Math, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Economics, Literature, and World History with each subject test taken separately.
The EST II measures basic scientific knowledge, scientific reasoning, and higher-order thinking skills, proving the abilities and capabilities of the student to pursue education in specific majors. The choice of subject tests depends on the majors the students are applying for.
The main study materials needed to prepare for the EST is the curriculum material which is taught in the American Diploma schools and the British education system key stages 4 and 5.
Academic Assessment Ltd. has published new practice guides in 2026. More information can be found here: https://ksa.estests.com/news/details/66c7131e8808773075810a5a
The student does not need private lessons. The school and the school teachers can provide the student with all the learning opportunities needed to get excellent EST grades.
It is worth noting that the official EST scoring does not penalize wrong answers. In other words, the total raw score is the sum of the number of questions answered correctly.
Detailed information can be found here: https://ksa.estests.com/news/details/61dd5c1925f4cb58244a9b92
The EST exams are scored electronically in collaboration with Pearson, the world's largest education company. The exams are authored by experts from around the world and reviewed by a board of experts based in the USA. Once the tests are administered, the scores are assigned automatically to each item to produce the student scores, with the exception of the optional essay which is scored manually. These scores are then reviewed to apply the psychometric analysis by the EST Board of Experts before the results are issued.
The EST assesses the student’s skills knowledge.The EST is structured as follows:
EST I:
– Literacy (Reading and Writing): 90 minutes - 85 multiple choice questions
– Math: 75 minutes - 50 multiple choice questions (Graphing or scientific calculator is allowed)
– Essay (Optional): 50 minutes
EST II:
– Math Level 1: 60 minutes - 40 multiple choice questions (Graphing or scientific calculator is allowed)
– Math Level 2: 60 minutes - 40 multiple choice questions (Graphing or scientific calculator is allowed)
– Biology: 60 minutes - 60 multiple choice questions (Scientific calculator is allowed)
– Physics: 60 minutes - 60 multiple choice questions (Scientific calculator is allowed)
– Chemistry: 60 minutes - 60 multiple choice questions (Scientific calculator is allowed)
– Economics: 60 minutes - 60 multiple choice questions (Scientific calculator is allowed)
– English Literature: 60 minutes - 60 multiple choice questions (Scientific calculator is allowed)
– World History: 60 minutes - 65 multiple choice questions (Scientific calculator is allowed)
The EST is delivered in Egypt, Jordan, KSA, UAE and Libya.
The results are usually issued within three weeks of the exam. The students are emailed their unofficial results. If they require the certified report, students are given the opportunity to order any score report (including older ones) for a limited time after issuing the scores of each trial.
Payments are non-transferable, but students can cancel their tests before the trial registration deadline and get a refund for a 25$ fee. Refunds take 7-8 weeks to be processed.
Cancellation after the trial registration deadline or absence from an exam for any reason results in forfeiting the full payment.
The EST I and EST II scores can be used for up to 3 years after the test results.
Students do not need to certify a trial directly after its scores are out. They can wait until they take all the trials that they want and then order a certified copy of their selected score report.
Students are given the opportunity to order any score report (including older ones) for a limited time after issuing the scores of each trial.
To order a report, please check the "Services" tab on the student dashboard. Please specify the rounds you want to add on your report and to which official entity you wish to submit your score report. The expected date to receive the report is 14 days from the request date.
After the trial registration deadline, a test center is assigned to each student based on their location and subject to availability.
Students are then contacted by email to view their Admission Tickets in their Student Dashboard and print them to bring them to the test.
To view the Admission Ticket:
Once centers are assigned, they cannot be changed.
While we ask students to indicate the universities they plan to apply to, this is currently for statistical purposes only. For the time being, students still have to share their official score report with the university of their choice.
Students need to input the number of their National ID and upload a colored copy of their ID in their test application.
Students whose National ID has not been issued yet can upload a colored copy of their passport or birth certificate in the National ID field. They will still have to input the number of the National ID in its correct field though.
Foreign students need to input the number of their passport and upload a colored copy of the passport in their test application.
All students should bring their Admission Ticket and a copy of an identification document that contains a photo (National ID or passport). Birth certificates are not accepted for admission to the test center.
While matching is applicable for the EST, we do not issue a single report that combines the scores from different trials. Instead, students order the certified reports of both trials and submit them to the university which will then apply superscoring when assessing the student's application at its discretion.
The email is not listed on the score report. It is the name and ID or passport number that need to be the same for both reports. So to match between two trials taken under different emails, the student can simply order the official score reports for both trials and submit them to the university.
All national Egyptian and Jordanian universities acknowledge the EST. For private universities, please check directly with the university to which you plan to apply.
First of all, make sure that you have an account on the new website. Accounts created before May 2021 were not merged to the new site, so you will need to create an account again (using the same email address) and set a password.
If you have already created an account but cannot log in, please reset your password. To do that:
You can now log into your account using the new password.
To view the Admission Ticket:
If you forgot your password, please follow the steps below to set a new password:
You can now log into your account using the new password.
EST trials count for students in Grades 11 and 12. However, as a test institution, we have no restrictions for entering trials even for students who are in Grade 10, as they can enter EST trials as a form of practice.
As for the first counted trial, you will have to check with the Ministry of Education to check which trial would be the first counted EST trial for you.
