JOINT EXAM ON "ARMENIAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE" SUBJECT TO BE HELD AT 55 EXAMINATION CENTERS

Noyan Tapan
May 30 2007

YEREVAN, MAY 30, NOYAN TAPAN. School-leavers of the 2006-2007 academic
year and the previous years of the secondary schools of Armenia will
pass the joint exam on the Armenian Language, Literature subject
at 55 examination centers. There will be 19 examination centers in
Yerevan. As Levon Mkrtchian, the RA Minister of Education and Science
stated at the May 29 press conference, more than 50 thousand pupils
leave schools of Yerevan and the marzes this year among who about 16
thousand school-leavers will participate at the centralized examination
being held by the joint (A and B levels) system.

>From the marzes of the republic, most of school-leavers addressed
for having a competition point on the Armenian Language subject
at the entrance exams of the institutions of higher education are
from the marzes of Shirak and Tavush, correspondingly 1457 and
1402 school-leavers. The least of entrants were registered from
the marzes of Vayots Dzor and Aragatsotn, correspondigly 282 and
654. 13 874 school-leavers will participate in the exam from Yerevan,
8 thousand 884 of who will pass the exam by the school-leaving system
and 4 thousand 990 ones will pass by the joint system. The Minister
mentioned that among the school-leavers of the previous years 1205
ones will this year pass a joint exam on the Armenian Language subject
for entrance exams of the institutions of higher education.

Results of the joint and final exams to be held on June 1 will become
known only in seven days.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress