NEARLY 50 THOUSAND LEAVERS TO FINISH ARMENIAN SCHOOLS THIS YEAR
Noyan Tapan
May 21 2007
YEREVAN, MAY 21, NOYAN TAPAN. Nearly 50 thousand leavers will finish
1417 comprehensive schools of Armenia in 2006-2007 schoolyear. 12031
of the leavers are from Yerevan. School state final examinations will
be held on June 1-20.
As Narine Hovhannisian, Head of General Education Department of RA
Ministry of Education and Science, said in her interview to Noyan
Tapan correspondent, this year a change has been made only in the
examination list of 8th form: three subjects were added – History of
Armenia, Natural Science (a pupil may choose one of these subjects:
Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography) and Physical Culture. This
change, in the words of head of the department, was made within the
framework of Conception of Giving Marks to Pupils approved in 2005.
Eight-form pupils will write a reproduction on Armenian Language. They
will take exams on another two subjects, Foreign Language and
Mathematics, as before.
N. Hovhannisian said that no changes have been made in examination
subjects of ten-form pupils: they will also take 6 exams on the same
subjects like eight-form pupils.
On June 1, ten-form pupils will take examination on the subject
Armenian Language and Literature by final and united versions,
by tests made up by the Center for Giving Marks and Testing of RA
Ministry of Education and Science. On June 4, written examination
will be organized by the order established by Ministry of Education
and Science on Mathematics and on June 11, on Natural Science (one
of the following subjects – Physics, Chemistry and Biology).
Head of General Education Department Narine Hovhannisian also said
that this year ten-form pupils will not take a separate exam on
Armenian Literature.
Only schoolleavers taking part in Armenian Language and Literature
exam being held jointly as a final exam and entrance exam will take
an exam on that subject.
Third-form pupils will take two written exams, on Armenian Language
and Mathematics subjects on days fixed by RA Ministry of Education
and Science, in the period of June 1-5.