INTRODUCTION OF JOINT SYSTEM OF SCHOOL-LEAVING EXAMS AND ENTRANCE EXAMS OF INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION MAY BE POSTPONED

Noyan Tapan
Aug 22 2006

YEREVAN, AUGUST 22, NOYAN TAPAN. It is envisaged to introduce in
Armenia in coming years a joint system of graduation exams of secondary
education and entrance exams of higher educational institutions:
the system will be introduced from 2007 with one subject: "Armenian
Language and Literature." As Levon Mkrtchian, the RA Minister of
Education and Science stated at the August 22 press conference,
the existing system of centralized exams for entering institutions
of higher education "exhausted itself" and there is a necessity of
introducing a new system. The Minister informed that the new system
will be experimented till December in few schools of Yerevan and one
of the marzes.

L.Mkrtchian mentioned that if it is found out during the
experiment that "the school does not imagine or is not ready for
introduction of the new system, it would not be awful to put off its
introduction." According to the Minister’s words, the test exams
consisting of about 100 tasks proposed by the new system give the
child a right of being mistaken. So, the entrant loses one point only
in the case if he makes the same mistake, for example, 7 times.