How to choose your Tawjihi field
Choosing a field is a decision you make once and then live with for a year. It is one of the few choices in the Tawjihi that is genuinely yours — and it is very often made in a few minutes, on the basis of what a friend picked.
What the field actually decides
Your field fixes the four grade-12 subjects you study and sit, and it changes nothing about how your average is worked out. The arithmetic is identical across all six fields; the detail is on the how-it-works page.
More usefully, qualifying is identical too. No field has a minimum mark of its own, and a student who passes year one has all six open to them. That surprises people who assume the stronger fields are reserved for the strongest marks. They are not — the choice is genuinely free, and being free is what makes it weigh.
Three questions that settle it
What kind of work can you stand for a year?
This is the first question, not the last. Some fields run on solving problems and on calculation that stacks one lesson on the next; others run on long reading, writing, and building an argument. Choose one that does not match how you think and you pay for it every week, not just in the final exam. The most honest measure you have is your own first year: which subjects made the hour go by without your noticing?
How much of the choice do you want to keep?
Fields differ enormously here, and few students look at it before deciding. Health and Business each fix three subjects and offer no group to choose from, so a single further examinable subject is all that is left to you. Science & Technology fixes one subject, and you build the rest yourself. If you already know exactly what you want, the settled fields are a relief; if you are still working it out, the wider ones leave you room.
Where does it lead afterwards?
Each field carries a list of the faculties and programmes it lets you apply to, published in the admission policy, and you will find each field list on its own page. Two cautions: these are faculties and programmes rather than a list of individual majors, and they are not a promise of a place — competitive admission averages are a separate matter, set by the universities each year.
Bad reasons to choose
- Because your friends did. They will sit their subjects and you will sit yours, and none of them will be in the room for your exam.
- Because a field has a reputation. No field is better than another in the abstract. One of them is better for you.
- Because it looks like the easy option. A subject you cannot stand does not become easy for having fewer pages.
- Because you decided early and never revisited it. What you based that decision on a year ago may have changed, and so may you.
Where to start
Read the six field pages and look at what each field is made of rather than at what it is called, then try the calculator with rough marks to see how the numbers fit together. The FAQ covers what is left.
This page is advice rather than an official text, and the calculator gives an anticipated, unofficial average.