SCHOOL GRADUATES HAVING FIRST EXAMINATION TODAY
ARMENPRESS
June 2, 2008
YEREVAN, JUNE 2, ARMENPRESS: About 50,000 school graduates are having
their first Armenian language and literature examination today.
Part of them are having so-called unified examination meaning that
those of them who will decide to enter a state-run university will
not have to take this exam again as their school examination mark
will be taken into account.
Acting Education and Science Minister Levon Mkrtchian visited a school
in Yerevan to see the process on the ground. According to him, it is
being videotaped giving parents an opportunity to see their children
in the examination hall.
The tests will be checked by school teachers. The minister said
passage to test examination system is the best way to asses school
leavers knowledge.
The correct answers will be posted today at 3 pm on the official
website of the Assessment and Testing Center of the ministry and all
graduates can compare their answers. The official results will be
made public on June 5. Graduates are entitled to appeal their marks
by a clearly-cut procedure.
The next unified emanation will be on mathematics on June 10. Some
10,000 graduates have applied to have it. The foreign language
examination is scheduled for June 17.