YEREVAN, AUGUST 22, NOYAN TAPAN. It is envisaged to introduce in Armenia in coming years a joint system of graduation exams of secondary education and entrance exams of higher educational institutions: the system will be introduced from 2007 with one subject: "Armenian Language and Literature." As Levon Mkrtchian, the RA Minister of Education and Science stated at the August 22 press conference, the existing system of centralized exams for entering institutions of higher education "exhausted itself" and there is a necessity of introducing a new system. The Minister informed that the new system will be experimented till December in few schools of Yerevan and one of the marzes. L.Mkrtchian mentioned that if it is found out during the experiment that "the school does not imagine or is not ready for introduction of the new system, it would not be awful to put off its introduction." According to the Minister's words, the test exams consisting of about 100 tasks proposed by the new system give the child a right of being mistaken. So, the entrant loses one point only in the case if he makes the same mistake, for example, 7 times.

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