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Nasibyan spoke about the changes in this year’s testing and evaluation system.
This year a number of changes are expected in the procedure of joint entrance exams in Armenia, which, according to experts will broaden the choice and chances of students.
Applicants will get an opportunity to apply to different branches of the same higher educational institution in other towns of Armenia, while before, applicants could compete only for six self-funding and two state funding places only at a higher education institution in one and the same town.
“This year an applicant can apply with the second, third or whatever claim he/she wants, to the branches of one and the same higher educational institution [in different towns of Armenia],” says Karo Nasibyan, head of Development and Implementation Department of the Assessment and Testing Center (ATC).
Nasibyan says that even though the changes are not very abrupt, they are expected to ease the work of both applicants and ATC specialists.
ATC also made changes in applicants’ behavior rules.
“Before, no matter what rule an applicant had broken, we warned him/her beforehand, then we registered that warning, and only after the second warning we could have ordered them out of the room and reprimanded. Now there are some violations, which if registered, according to the new procedure, we can immediately order an applicant out of the exam room, giving him/her an unsatisfactory mark,” Nasibyan says.
After the first warning, an applicant may be dismissed for bringing a mobile phone into the exam room (there is a cell phone jamming device in the exam rooms, however, some applicants used to ask for a permission to go out and they used their mobile phones in a corridor). An applicant can also be dismissed for using “crib” notes.
If applicants talk to each other during the exam or try to prompt each other, they will be ordered out of the room after the second warning.
This year 17,665 applicants applied to participate in the joint entrance exams (starting from June 1), a decrease of about 1,500 over last year.
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