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Education | 15.06.10 | 17:00

Wrong Books or Wrong Tests?: Students complain that textbooks do not prepare them for entry exams

By Karine Ionesyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Students in this year’s annual academic ritual of higher education entrance exams are complaining that the questions being asked on tests are not relevant to the material in their text books. The complaints raised enough noise while the authors of the textbooks and publishers have their opinion.

For example, Sokrat Mkrtchyan, Director of ‘Tatev’ Center for Scientific and Educational Support, which publishes textbooks, believes that the problem in fact is not with the content of the textbooks, rather it is that the tests themselves seek to measure knowledge that a student could only get through outside tutoring.

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Anonymous (unverified)
15.06.2010 22:42
The entire system is a mess. The textbooks, the tests, the entire curriculum. How do the books and tests NOT correspond to the national curriculum (which needs to be completely overhauled, from the top to bottom). I am an English teacher, and I get students who have been taking English lesson for YEARS and they can't speak English...becasue the English teachers at school CAN'T speak English! This is insane. The school system is crumbling, which means the future of this nation is too!
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Mariam (unverified)
15.06.2010 09:01
It is simple, really. If the entrance exam questions corresponded with textbook materials, we would have a chance of fair admissions, where the best students would score the highest and pass. That simply would not do. Instead, if we make entrance exams confusing enough, students will seek to pay the educators either legally - to tutor them, or not so legally - to help them pass. In that case we will only have those students pass who can afford to pay. That's the way we want it. That's how it's done in this country! Yeah!
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