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Assessment on the basis of essay writing in the admission to the master’s degree in the Republic of Azerbaijan

The admission examination to the master’,s degree in the Republic of Azerbaijan is conducted in the centralized way by the State Students Admission Commission. The examination is carried out in two stages. At the first stage the candidates’, logical reasoning skills and abilities, also their knowledge of informatics and a foreign language are tested, but at the second stage the candidates’, attainments in the speciality are examined. At this stage the attainments of the candidates who apply for the specialities of the directions of Journalism, Philology and Linguistics are assessed on the basis of essay writing. It measures the candidates’, abilities to apply their knowledge, their creative, critical and analytical thinking and writing skills.This paper is devoted to methodical preparation for essay writing and its assessment including criteria for scoring the essays, selection and training of graders prior to the examination, arrangement for and conducting of the assessment process and the analysis of the results of the assessment. The information on the experience gained in the sphere of the assessment of essays ,during the last seven years is given coverage of in the paper.

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