REPUBLIC SCHOOL COMPETITIONS

Azat Artsakh – Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR)
15 March 05

On March 13 the 2004-2005 republic competition among schoolchildren
took place at the school N 8 of Stepanakert. It was preceded by the
regional competitions the winners of which passed to the next
stage. The head of the department for programming, methods and
elementary school of the NKR Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport
Raya Musayelian said the contest was held in ten school subjects:
Armenian language, literature, mathematics, physics, biology,
chemistry, geography, history, Russian, English. The participants were
mainly 8th and 9th form pupils, and in certain subjects, such as
Armenian, Russian and mathematics, pupils of 6th and 7th form were
involved too. More than 50 out of the 251 participants took part in
the contest in the Armenian and Russian languages. R. Musayelian said
that only 2 pupils participated in the competition in literature. The
number of participants of the contest in English has also decreased
from last year; there were only 17 pupils against 40-45 in the
previous years. All the regions and the schools of the capital were
represented in the contests. R. Musayelian assured that the
competition was impartial. The envelopes with the tests were opened on
the same day, in the morning of March 13, in the presence of the
members of the commission. The winners will take part in the
competition in Armenia at the beginning of April.

LAURA GRIGORIAN.
15-03-2005