According to many experts, the USE 2016 will be the last in the history of modern Russian education. In the next graduation year, students will take Soviet-style final exams.

In 2016, the minimum passing scores will increase, and an additional number of retakes will be introduced.

Changes in the USE 2016

According to forecasts, creative written assignments in exams in such subjects as history, Russian language, and literature will be expanded. The number of test tasks will be significantly reduced, which will avoid elementary cheating on the part of graduates, and will allow assessing the real level of their knowledge, since in test tasks they could simply guess the correct answer without knowing it.

Compulsory subjects, as before, will remain mathematics and Russian. To get admission to the Russian language exam, you will need to write, which will now be assessed in the pass / fail form. At the same time, the Ministry of Education and Science does not exclude that in the foreseeable future the list of mandatory exams will be replenished with a foreign language, physics and history.

Discussions on the subject of certificates

Despite the fact that many people find the innovations for the Unified State Examination in 2016 radical, experts from the Ministry of Education and Science have a different point of view on this matter, while not excluding the possibility that in the future exams will become mandatory only for applicants and become a tool for entering a university. Regarding graduates of schools and lyceums, now everyone will have certificates. Even unsatisfactory grades will be marked in the certificates. Thus, experts believe, a graduate will be able to study at a university in those specialties where the subjects in which he received an unsatisfactory grade are not profile ones.

A similar initiative has already been discussed in the State Duma at the round table. The reason for such a discussion was the appeal of Professor Rukshin from the Herzen Pedagogical University, in which he asked to consider his proposal to issue certificates to everyone without exception, without regard to his performance in exams. The condition will be only completed 11 classes of secondary school. It is highly likely that this initiative will be approved. Its supporters believe that such a reform in the education system will give more chances for realization to people with a special mindset and will become an impetus for the true development of the individual.

In addition, according to the Ministry of Education and Science, in 2016, when submitting documents to the admissions committee, graduates will have to take additional entrance exams in mathematics and a foreign language, if the chosen specialty contains such exams in the list of required exams. Moreover, a student after the ninth grade can find out what are his chances of passing the entrance exams and whether he will be admitted to them.

The USE 2016 and its possible abolition next year put an end to the debate about the imperfection of the system. Rumors about a new form of final exams do not subside, but until the result of the reforms carried out is visible in practice, it is too early to say whether they are right or wrong.

Table of assessments of the minimum passing score of the Unified State Examination 2016 in all subjects

The assessment system for the USE in mathematics at the profile level is much more complicated. Firstly, exam tasks have a different "price". Tasks from the first part (with a short answer) are the most "cheap"; the most "expensive" are the last two problems (an equation or inequality with a parameter and a number theory problem).

In 2016, the perfect solution of all nineteen tasks can bring 32 primary scores. The maximum number of points has decreased by two compared to 2015, since the first part now offers not 14, but 12 tasks.

Primary scores are converted to test scores. The translation scale changes slightly from year to year. Below is a table that was used at the USE in mathematics in 2015. Please note that the corresponding function is very different from the linear one: the rapid growth in the area of ​​low ratings is replaced by a smoother one in the middle of the scale.

USE in mathematics (profile level). Scale for converting primary scores into test scores

To enter the university, you must score a minimum 27 points(i.e., solve 6 simple tasks from the first part). Naturally, admission to serious educational institutions requires significantly higher results.

I would like to emphasize once again: the above table is only a guideline! When setting a test score, not only the number of primary points is taken into account, but also the relative complexity of the tasks solved, as well as the number of students who completed a particular task. Thus, the final "formula" for the transfer of points will be known only after passing the exam - 2016 in mathematics by all graduates.

How many tasks do you need to complete in order to score a certain score on the exam? This question can be answered with the help of scales for converting primary scores into test scores.

The scale indicates the correspondence between primary and test scores.
Primary scores- this is preliminary points before being transferred to a 100-point scale (for example, in the Russian language for task No. 1 you can score 2 primary points, for task No. 2 - 1 primary point). You can get acquainted with the distribution of points for tasks in this article. Primary scores are converted into test scores.
Test scores- this is final points after transfer to a 100-point scale, with which applicants enter the university. For one item you can get no more 100 test points.

Purple points are allocated, which are not enough to pass the exam.
in redthe minimum scores confirming the passing of the exam are highlighted.

The maximum number of primary points (USE 2016):
Russian language - 57 (+1) ;
Mathematics - 32 (-2) ;
Social studies - 62 (0) ;
Physics - 50 (0) ;
Biology - 61 (0) ;
History - 53 (-6) ;
Chemistry - 64 (0) ;
Foreign languages ​​- 100 (0) ;
Informatics and ICT - 35 (0) ;
Literature - 42 (0) ;
Geography - 47 (-4) .
In parentheses, the change in primary scores compared to 2015 is indicated.

If the number of primary points does not change, then the scale for transferring points remains unchanged. Therefore, we can say that the scale social science, physics, biology, chemistry, foreign languages, informatics and literature for 2016 is 100% accurate. The greatest ambiguity is the scale in mathematics, because. in 2015 this scale taken "from the ceiling", it defies any logic; it is not clear what the math scale will look like in 2016.
Scale for converting points into grades by mathematics (basic level) presented below: