Medal winners in Azerbaijan to receive extra marks at entrance examinations in future

In future, the State Students Admission Commission (SSAC) of Azerbaijan may assign extra marks to those university entrants who graduated secondary schools with gold and silver medals, SSAC Chairperson Maleika Abbaszadeh said.

"Once entrance examinations are over, the SSAC shall compare the results of university entrants to their marks in school leaving certificate. If these results illustrate that the school marks are fair we will be able to amend the rules of admission and add extra marks to the results of school leavers", Abbaszadeh said.

According to her, the Law "On Education" currently permits only winners of world school subject Olympics, international contests and high-level competitions to enter high schools without entrance examination.

"Given that the situation with giving marks in schools improves from year to year, we hope that the SSAC will be able to start assigning extra marks to university entrants, who demonstrate excellent results at school and confirm them at entrance examination, in the near 2-3 years", the State Commission Chairperson said.

"The results of last year entrance examinations illustrate that as concerning giving marks in schools not everything is perfect", she said.

Earlier this month the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan approved the images of gold and silver medals "For particular achievements in study".

In its resolution, the Cabinet of Ministers said 3-millimeter thick 40-millimeter diameter gold and silver medals shall be manufactured for those who graduate from the secondary school with honors.

School leavers who are said worthy of being awarded with a medal will receive it at the school leavers’ award ceremony depending on the results of common centralized school leaving examinations of 2010/2011 educational year.


/Trend/