09.06.2011
Minister of Education and Science of Georgia Dimitri Shashkini met top ten school graduates who have showed the best results in every subject of the school leaving exams. Minister congratulated them on their accomplishments and presented them with the personal computers.
Minister positively assessed the outcomes of the exams.
School leaving exams was organized in the format of Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT). The exams were held at the examinations centers of 1520 schools across Georgia. Eight-day-long exam process was carried out without complications as a result of the complex measures taken by the Ministry. 30 % of the school graduates showed a high level of knowledge at the exams; 5 % out of them - got the highest points.
The exams were held in 8 subjects: Georgian Language and Literature, Foreign Languages (upon choice); Math, History, Geography, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. The first exam was organized in Georgian Language and Literature on May 23 and the last one was held on June 1 in Math.
Ethnic minority schoolchildren took the exams in their own native languages.