MORE THAN 50 THOUSAND PUPILS TO PARTICIPATE IN SCHOOL-LEAVING AND JOINT EXAMS ON ARMENIAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE SUBJECT

Noyan Tapan
May 03 2007

YEREVAN, MAY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. About 15 thousand entrants will take
a joint exam on the Armenian Language, Literature subject for the
entrance exams of the higher educational institutions this year.

As Vanya Barseghian, the Director of the Estimation and Testing Center
(ETC) mentioned in the interview to the Noyan Tapan correspondent,
in total, more than 50 thousand pupils (this year and previous year
school-leavers of different secondary educational institutions of the
republic) will take an exam on the Armenian Language, Literature
subject this year. Among them 37 thousand school-leavers will
participate only in the school-leaving exam. The school-leaving and
joint exams will be held on the same day, June 1, and at the same time.

The process of school-leavers’ registration has not been completely
finished yet, and, in ETC Director’s words, works on checking pupils’
data are done at present with secondary schools. Those have already
been finished in few marzes, and the registration process started still
from February will completely be finished on May 4. In separate cases,
an additional registration will be organized in June for foreign
entrants or demobilized boys for entering a higher educational
institution after what a joint exam will be held in first ten days
of July.

After the registration, all the entrants taking a joint exam will be
given cards with photos, personal data and password.

According to the number of registered pupils, the number of joint
examination centers was also decided: those are 55 ones, 18 of which
are in Yerevan.

In the ETC Director’s words, the examination tests on the Armenian
Language, Literature subject being held in 4 variants have already
been formed and sent for printing. The school-leaving (A level) exam
will last 90 minutes, and the joint exam (A and B levels together)
will last 3 hours.