Everything You Need to Know About the Certificate Examination

How do I get a certificate?
You take an online exam with multiple choice questions from your home, office or university. We also provide organizations the ability to conduct close-door exams at their respective locations.

The  Examination: A 120 minute exam of 40-60 multiple choices questions. The pass mark is 70%.

Can I get sample exam questions?
The online training modules contain everything you need to take the examination. These learning modules contain quiz questions that are specifically designed to replicate the kinds of questions you should expect to receive in the examination, though the exam questions are a bit more challenging.

What topics will I be tested on for the Essentials certification?
The test is based on content covered in the following modules:

1 Essentials of Grammar and Morphology

2. Grammatically Analyzing Words

1. Doer of the Verb (الفاعل)
2. Formal parsing of words (الإعرَاب)
3. Passive Doer of the verb (نائِب الفاعِل)
4. The Subject (المُبتَدَأ)
5. The Predicate (الخَبَر)
6. More on the Predicate (الخَبَر)
7. The Abrogators: Kana (النواسخ: كان وأخوتها)
8. Inna (إِنّ وأخواتها)
9. Dhanna (ظَنّ وأخواتها)
10. The Followers: the Adjective (التَوَابِع: النَعت)
11. Adjective subtopics: Definite Nouns (المَعَارِف), Relative Pronouns (اسم المَوصُول), the Derived Nouns (المُشْتَقَّات)
12. Conjunctions (العطف)
13. Emphasis (التوكيد) 
14. Replacer (البدل)

3. Finishing Topics

1. The Mansubat: Direct Object (المفعول به)
2. Masdar (المفعول المطلق)
3. Circumstantial qualifier الحال
4. Clarification التمييز
5. Nouns of time and place الظرف
6. The Exception الاستثناء
7. The La of Categorical Negation لا النافية للجنس
8. The Vocative المنادى
9. The Reason  المفعول لِأجله
10. Review of the mansubat
11. Particles of Genitive Nouns حروف الجرّ
12. The Idafa Construction الإضافة
13. Review of concepts and application to Imam Ghazali's masterpiece on Ihya 'ulum al-din.

How do I take the Essentials™ examination? 
Once the course payments are complete, we'll send you a direct link to the exam. Once you start you cannot pause or stop. Do not refresh the webpage or press enter on the browser's address bar after starting the examination. We track your browser specifications, IP and MAC (Ethernet Interface) addresses before, during and after the examination. Certification attempts by unauthorized users results in immediate account termination, banning from future use of Grammica and blacklisting on the public domain.

The certification test is online. What prevents me from cheating?
Leading institutions now use e-learning for high stakes testing, including Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford. And increasingly seminaries and corporates now rely on e-learning to certify their teachers. The key to preventing cheating, and the one we use at Grammica Institute with our programs is to ensure that the content is sufficiently difficult, even for a specialist. So that someone who has not studied for the certification exam using our content would find it difficult to pass. On a more philosophical level, we find that good cheaters make for embarrassed teachers

What happens if I fail?
If you do not pass the first time, you pay $295 (payable in 2 installments of $147.5) for the re-attempt. You must attempt the exam during your access period. We do not share exam questions and answers. If your access period has expired, you may take the exam only or also receive module access at the study extension rates here: https://grammica.institute/study-period-extension/

How do I take the exam if my access period has expired?
In order to help Grammica’s students achieve certification success, for those with expired accounts who do not need access to the modules, we do not require them to re-enroll into the program, costing them up to $1495. Rather, we offer a discounted “exam only” fee of $295 (payable in 2 installments of $147.5). Please see here for more detail: https://grammica.institute/study-period-extension/. Exams are sold separately from study extensions.