YEREVAN, MAY 25, NOYAN TAPAN. 55 thousand graduates of schools of Armenia will pass on June 1 the joint exam on the "Armenian Language and Literature" subject. They who will appeal to an institution of higher education where the Armenian language is a competitive subject, will pass the exam by the joint variant, and ones for who that subject is only for the school-leaving certificate will pass the exam at their schools. Bagrat Yesayan, the RA Deputy Minister of Education and Science stated about it at the Hayeli club on May 24. The Deputy Minister also spoke about the innovations implemented in the education sphere, particularly about the misunderstandings connected with the tasks on literature. In his words, the school-leaving exam will be held by the A variant which will involve 50 tasks, 15 of which are on the literature. One common mark will be in the school-leaving certificate for the Armenian language and literature exams. And 75 tasks are envisaged for ones passing the entrance exam. In this case, the competition estimate will be formed of only the Armenian language subject. B. Yesayan also stated that exams on natural sciencies will also be held by the joint examination system the next year. Armenia will completely pass to that type of exam in 2 years. "We shall organize an extremely transparent exam, starting from opening the boxes up to all other processes. We shall make mass media participants of all these," the Deputy Minister assured. As for the appeal of marks, B. Yesayan mentiond that there is no tradition of appeal in test system of exams in the absolute majority of countries of the world, but "as the Armenian people is used not to trust, we shall place xeroxes in examination halls for the school-leaver copies form of his work."

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