Azerbaijan, Baku, 6 June / Trend corr. J.Babayeva / Maleyka Abbaszade, the Chairman of State Commission on Student Admission of Azerbaijan, has announced the date for the entrance exams to various Universities of the country. According to the Chairman, the exams to the third speciality group will be held on 29 June, first group -on 8 July, second group - 14 July and fourth group - on 20 July.
In 2008, about 121,244 pupils held school-leaving certificates.
Abbaszade said that 119,766 electron applications were submitted to enter the state and private Universities of the country for 2008-2009. The State Commission has approved 116,434 applications.
Some 36,914 electron applications were approved for the first group of specialties, (32,358 -in 2007), 21,822 electron applications - second group of specialties, (17,726 - in 2007), 40,539 electron application of third group of specialties (40,109 - in 2007) and 17,159 electron applications of fourth group of specialties (13,174 - in 2007).
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