Thursday, the Ministry of Education announced that 18 additional students were unable to take the Tawjihi exam for two consecutive examination sessions due to cell phone use. 

This brings the total number of students who have been unable to take the the Tawjihi exams due to cell phone use for this year to 272 students, according to the ministry’s spokesperson Ahmed Al-Masa’fa.

The mobile phones were seized from them.

Thursday, Tawjihi students finished their exams.