Accepting the Winners of Kharazmi Festival in Higher Education Without Participating in Entrance Exam: Analytic Investigation of Project Success

One of the significant action in Ministry of Science, Research and Technology to nurture the gifted and talented students in higher education is approving the regulations by the Gifted students can apply in the universities without having any Entrance Exams. One of these rules related to their students who are winner as the first, second or third place in Kharazmi Festival. The main purpose of this research was studying the success of the Ministry’s performance about applying winners of Kharazmi Festival in the universities. Thus, this research sets out to investigate, from “the winners of Kharazmi Festival” perspective, indicators such as satisfaction of winners that show the plan was successful. Another purpose of this research was identifying causes of some winner didn’t like or couldn’t impart of related advantages. The statistical community of this research consists of all winners of Kharazmi during 1383-1386 years (over 330). The sample size was determined 110 and simple randomized sampling method is used. The data collection instrument was a researcher- made questionnaire. The results show that 76% of the winners are not satisfied and there is no significant difference between educational scores and scientific activity (study, research, write or translating paper) of winners of Kharazmi Festival and other students.