Lebanese University Faculty of Agronomy Entrance Examination

It is the competitive selection test for entry to the Faculty of Agronomy at the Lebanese University, the public route to agronomy training in Lebanon. A place there leads to work in crop production, plant protection, animal husbandry, food processing, soil and water management or rural extension, and to further specialisation at graduate level.

Expect multiple-choice items, short written answers where you supply a term, a definition or a one-line calculation, and longer scientific problems requiring several steps - typically a genetics cross, a stoichiometry calculation or a mechanics problem. Written sections are graded on method as well as the final number, so show your reasoning.

The Faculty of Agronomy publishes the current question count, duration and any calculator rules in its admission announcement for each session, and these can change from year to year. Confirm them on the Lebanese University website or with the admission service rather than trusting a figure from a forum or an old paper.

The content sits close to the Lebanese baccalaureate science stream, but the paper is denser and faster, and questions combine topics - a photosynthesis item that turns into graph reading, for instance. Candidates who only memorised definitions find the written and problem sections harder than expected. Speed and accuracy under pressure are the real discriminators.

Retake and re-application rules are set per session by the university, and there is no single fixed policy that can be quoted in advance. Check the Faculty of Agronomy admission announcement for the year you are applying, or ask the admission service directly, before assuming you can simply sit it again the following year.

Start with mathematics and chemistry, because they reward daily short practice and underpin the physics and analytical sections. Keep biology in continuous rotation since it carries the largest weight. Put earth sciences and languages in scheduled weekly slots rather than the final week - small but reliably scorable. Finish with full timed papers.

You will not perform an experiment, but you must read diagrams, interpret tables and graphs, describe observations and explain why a control is needed. Typical items involve a microscope image, a titration curve, a soil profile or a food web. Practise turning a figure into two or three precise sentences.

Scientific communication is its own section and also bleeds into every other one, since a misread instruction costs a whole question. Terms often appear in French or English alongside Arabic. Build a short personal glossary of instruction verbs - calculer, déduire, comparer, justifier - and answer in complete, unambiguous sentences.

Three recur: unit and significant-figure errors in physics and chemistry, rote answers to questions that ask for reasoning, and too much time spent on one hard problem early. A fourth is skipping the small sections entirely. Budget time roughly in proportion to the weightings, and if a problem stalls, write your method and move on.

Dates, venue, documents, fees and any changes are announced by the Lebanese University and its Faculty of Agronomy. Use the official university website and the faculty's admission notices, and check again close to the deadline, since details are often updated. Do not rely on social media summaries or second-hand copies of the announcement.