Egyptian student pursues legal action after alleging her exam results were falsified

• Mariam Malak, a high-achieving student, took action and demanded an independent inquiry after seeing that the handwriting on the test did not match her own.
• Malak, who scored 97% on the test in the previous two years, has aspirations of becoming a doctor.
• With suspicions that Malak’s results may have been switched with another student’s, the case has become a symbol of corruption in the Egyptian education system.

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