 The Saakashvili government's educational policy attempted to provide students in majority-Armenian and Azeri areas with improved learning materials and teachers willing to instruct non-native speakers of Georgian.As of 2013, however, the program did not prove very efficient.The standards of the general ability exams considered mandatory and non-mandatory were altered in order to accommodate non-Georgians (for example, the exam on Georgian literature became optional) and a program funding minority group students wanting to study in the United States was introduced.