Brevet Practice Exams at Home: A Parent’s Checklist

The best way to know if your child is ready for the Brevet or Baccalaureate is a fresh, curriculum-matched mock exam taken under real conditions at home — not another pass through a past paper they've already half-memorized. Imtihan lets a parent generate one in minutes.

The Tutoring Trap

Private tutoring in Lebanon has become a necessity rather than a luxury for many families preparing for the Brevet (grade 9) and Baccalaureate. But tutoring hours are expensive, and a weekly session doesn't always tell you where your child actually stands before the official exam.

Bring the Official Standards Home

Imtihan allows parents to generate exams that mirror the difficulty of Lebanon's official exams, which for the Baccalaureate are published and archived by CRDP (the Centre de Recherche et de Développement Pédagogiques, Lebanon's national curriculum body) going back to 2006. Rather than reusing one of those same archived papers — which your child, or their classmates, may have already seen — Imtihan generates a new exercise at matching difficulty on the same chapter.

This matters because familiarity quietly inflates confidence. A student who recognizes a question from last year's Dawrat can often produce the right answer from memory, without re-deriving the reasoning that got them there — which tells a parent nothing about whether the underlying chapter is actually understood.

A Simple At-Home Mock Exam Checklist

• Pick the chapters already covered in class — don't test material not yet taught.
• Time it under real exam conditions, no notes, no interruptions.
• Use a fresh exercise, not a past paper your child has already seen once.
• Review the corrigé together afterward, focusing on where the reasoning broke down, not just the final score.
• Repeat on the weakest chapter a week later, with a new exercise each time.

Empower Your Child's Success

Your child will develop the critical thinking skills needed to handle "unseen" questions — the kind the official exam will actually ask, not a memorized variant of one they solved last month. Each Imtihan account starts with one free generated exam, so you can try this before deciding it's worth doing regularly.

A generated exam also comes with a full, step-by-step corrigé, so you don't need to be a physics or chemistry teacher yourself to walk through where your child's reasoning went wrong — the methodology is laid out alongside the final answer, not just a bare numeric key.

You can download the exam and its corrigé as a formatted Word document or PDF, print them, and run the mock exam at the kitchen table exactly like exam day — no separate app, no login required for your child, just paper and a timer.