NUMBER OF YEREVAN SCHOOL LEAVERS TO MAKE 11 454 THIS YEAR
Noyan Tapan
March 24, 2008
YEREVAN, MARCH 24, NOYAN TAPAN. In 2007-2008 schoolyear the number
of Yerevan school leavers will make 11 454. As Onik Vatian, the Head
of the Education Department of Yerevan Mayor’s Office, said at the
March 24 press conference, this year the leavers will take united,
centralized exams in Armenian Language and Literature, Mathematics,
and Foreign Languages. In his words, acceptance of bids from top
classes finished on March 16. O. Vatian said that according to
preliminary data, 19 leavers will take united exams in Spanish and
2 Persian languages.
It was also mentioned that the indices of study progress and quality
have considerably grown in the first six months of this schoolyear
compared with the first six months of 2006-2007. Thus, study progress
was 91.6% and quality 33% in the first six months of the previous
schoolyear, while these indices made 93% and 35%, respectively,
in the same period of this year.