Minister responds to student’s letter
After the unified English language exam on June 15, 12th grade student of N. Misakyan High School N 5 in Ashtarak, Gevorg Movsisyan sent a letter to RA Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan, which was posted on the websites of several electronic newspapers.
By the minister's assignment, the student's letter has been sent to the Assessment and Testing Center.
Today, the ATC sent its response in which it is particularly stated: "All four versions of the tests can't be absolutely the same and there have to be certain differences in the test items. It is obvious that those differences can have an impact on the intricacy of the tests.
It should be mentioned that the level of item difficulty is a term used in testing, and the precise amount of it becomes clear (estimated) after statistical analyses. The test that seems difficult at first sight is often easier and the opposite.
Fortunately, the average indicators for all four versions of this year's unified English language exam were almost the same (13.23, 13.24, 13.21, 13.14), which is a rare phenomenon and describes the equivalency of the tests in terms of difficulty."
