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.

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