Qur'ān Competition 1446/2025

Marking Scheme

Overview

There are 5 categories for marking. In competition, there will be three judges with the following responsibilities:

1. Judge A:
   • Fluency & Accuracy
   • Waqf & Ibtidā'
   • Sawt & Lahn
2. Judge B (Moderator):
   • Makhārij
   • Sawt & Lahn
3. Judge C:
   • Tajweed
   • Sawt & Lahn

1. Fluency & Accuracy [30%]

Mistakes in this category inculde:

• Changes in the harakah / signs (e.g. reciting salama instead of sulima)
• Changes in the hurūf / letters (e.g. reciting ya’malūn instead of ta’malūn)
• Getting stuck or stuttering

Additional rules for memorization:

1. Scenario 1:
   • If the participant gets stuck, record 1 mistakes on fluency and give them 8-10 seconds to see if they continue by themselves.
   • If they're still silent, record a 2nd mistake and propmpt them with the next (3-5) words.
2. Scenario 2:
   • If they skip an āyah, or recite an incorrect āyah, stop them and give them 1 mistakes on their fluency.
   • Let them know they recited an incorrect āyah, and give them 8-10 econds to recite the correct āyah instead.
   • If they're still silent, record a 2nd mitake and prompt them with the next (3-5) words.
3. Scenario 3:
   • In general, if they skip a word, let them continue but record it as 1 mistake.

2. Waqf & Ibtidā (Stopping) [15%]

Mistakes in this category inculde:

• Incorrect pronounciation when stopping (e.g. stopping at a fatha long vowel, fatha tanween, ta marbuta)
• Incorrectly following the stoppage (waqf) rules in the middle of āyāt
• Breaking incorrectly to breath in the middle of an āyah

3. Makhārij (Pronounciation) [20%]

Mistakes in this category inculde:

• Incorrect pronounciation of letters (e.g. kaaf instead of qaaf)

4. Tajweed [20%]

Mistakes in this category inculde incorrect application of:

• Rules of noon saakin & tanween (ikhfa, idghām, iqlāb, idhār)
• Rules of meem saakin
• Rules of raa
• Qalqala
• Ghunna
• Rule of laam in "Allāh"
• Maddah
• Tashdeed (shaddah)
• Changing long vowels into short vowels, and vice-versa (e.g. ba to baa)

5. Sawt & Lahn (Style) [15%]

Judges are to assign a score of 0-100 in this category.