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THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES: THEORY AND PRACTICE, V.78, # 2, 2021, pp. 4-16

DATA SET OF RESEARCH AND ITS PROCESSING
Admission examinations to universities in Azerbaijan are conducted by the State
Examination Center (formerly named State Student Admission Commission) since
1992, and to the Master's program since 2005. Admission to the Bachelor's program
is carried out in 5 groups of specialties, and in the Master's program in 70
specialties. The maximum score for admission to the Bachelor’s degree is 700 points
and to the Master's degree 150 points. Each year, after exams, the State Examination
Center publishes the journal of “Abituriyent, no.12” which provides scientific and
statistical analysis of admission to bachelor’s and master’s programs and the
database of our research is also based on the statistics in this journal, as well as the
indicators obtained from the authors’ calculations based on indicators from this
journal (Abituriyent, no.12. Azerbaijan State Students Admission Commission
1996/1997-2020/2021).

In the journal, the distribution and some statistical characteristics of scores for both
Azerbaijani and Russian sections and different specialty groups since 1996 have
been presented in a form that is represented in Table 1.

Table 1: The distribution of 1st group applicant in the Azerbaijani section in 2017

Source: Abituriyent, no.12, 2017, (http://www.tqdk.gov.az/en/)

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