Armenia’s minister of education and science on Tuesday unveiled plans for revising the university admission procedures to allow entrants to sit for exams twice every year.
Speaking to reporters at the State University of Economics (which was hosting a centralized examination in Armenian Language and Literature), Levon Mkrtchyan said thet are now considering the change “to reduce the overload in the system”.

“If we equip our testing centers with the necessary supplies, we may organize [admission] tests twice every year to give every entrant a second chance,” he said, highlighting also the need of extra financial costs and more building premises.

“We need to slowly arrive at the understanding that the system should focus on testing an entrant’s knowledge rather than catching an error,” he added.

The minister said they intend to initiate the reform this year to be able to apply it to the 2018 entrance examinations.
He said they would need little financial costs and one-time material investment (building premises, computer equipment) to realize the plan.