The unified state exam, which is known to most schoolchildren and their parents under the abbreviation USE, is an important stage in the life of a young person, since it is his results that determine his opportunities for further education.
Determining the time for the exam
In the Russian Federation, there are mandatory exams, such as Russian language and mathematics, and exams that a student can take at their choice. The latter include, for example, geography, history, chemistry and other subjects. In total, more than 10 different school subjects can now be taken in the form of a unified state exam.At the same time, the duration of the time period allotted for completing tasks for each of the subjects may vary. The specific duration of each type of exam is annually approved by the Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science (Rosobrnadzor). At the same time, when determining the time allotted for each subject, Rosobrnadzor is guided by the complexity and amount of information required to successfully pass the exam in this subject, the nature of the examination tasks and other factors.
In addition, when setting the duration of the period of time allotted for the performance of tasks, sanitary and hygienic standards are also taken into account, including the norms of mental load for adolescents of the appropriate age. So, for example, in 2012, in accordance with the current sanitary norms and rules, the time for several exams was reduced by 5 minutes.
Time for the exam
All exam procedures usually begin at 10 am. However, the end time of the exam will depend on which subject the students are taking. So, the shortest period of time is allotted for completing examination tasks in such subjects as biology, geography, chemistry and foreign languages: the student is given 3 hours, that is, 180 minutes, to complete them.A longer period of time is allotted for completing tasks in a number of humanitarian disciplines - the Russian language, history and social science. Students can reflect on their answers to questions in these subjects for 210 minutes, that is, 3.5 hours. Finally, mathematics, physics, computer science, and literature are considered the most difficult: students are given almost 4 hours to complete tasks in these subjects, or rather, 235 minutes.
At the same time, the time required for preparatory operations, for example, opening envelopes with assignments, instructing schoolchildren to fill out forms and other procedures, is not included in the total
The Russian language is one of the compulsory subjects of the Unified State Examination. Without a positive exam result, a graduate simply will not receive a certificate of secondary education. What is the current version of the Unified State Examination in the Russian language? What should be taken into account when preparing?
All USE assignments in the Russian language require a good knowledge of the school curriculum and do not go beyond its scope. Nevertheless, the tasks are structured in such a way that they test the most diverse knowledge of students and their ability to work with text.
Control and measuring materials (KIM) in the Russian language consist of two parts. The first part includes 24 tasks with a short answer or with a choice of correct answers. The second part involves writing an essay-reasoning on the text read.
The second part of the examination paper offers to write an essay-reasoning on the read text. We immediately pay attention to the type of speech. Essay-reasoning. That is, your work should have a clear structure: thesis, arguments, conclusion. An essay in Russian is written according to a clear plan:
First, we indicate the problem of the read text. There may be more than one problem in the text. You need to choose one.
The second is to comment on the formulated problem. In fact, this is the answer to the question why the author spoke about this. The comment is taken from the text. What the author saw in the life around him, what he heard, remembered, read, what he spoke about this problem.
The fourth is to express your point of view. This will be your thesis. You may or may not agree with the author.
Fifth - pick up two arguments in defense of your point of view. Moreover, you will get the highest score on this criterion only if one of the arguments is from fiction, scientific literature or journalism.
The second may be from life. You can, of course, give two arguments from life, but you will lose one point. Sixth - you need to draw a conclusion, summing up your thoughts. This is about the way we see that the examination paper is evaluated when checking the work.
The duration of the Unified State Exam-2018 in the Russian language
The duration of the USE in 2018 will remain unchanged in all subjects except biology. The time for passing the exam in biology has been increased by half an hour.
| Russian language Chemistry Biology |
3 hours 30 minutes (210 minutes) |
| Maths(profile level) Literature Social science Physics Informatics and ICT Story |
3 hours 55 minutes (235 minutes) |
| Maths(a basic level of) Foreign language(written part) Geography |
3 hours (180 minutes) |
| Foreign language(oral part) | 15 minutes |
The USE in the Russian language will be passed by graduates on June 6
As in the past year, graduates are given 3.5 hours to work. There will be 26 tasks in the test. One additional task was added this year - it will have to find lexical errors in the text. It will be necessary to edit one sentence, excluding from it an extra word that is not suitable or interferes with the meaning of speech.
The maximum number of points remains the same - 58. In order to consider the exam passed, you need to score at least 24 points. For admission to a university - a minimum of 36 points. For budget receipts - as much as possible, because your rating during the competition will depend on this.
The first task is a test. Here you need to be able to use the rules of the Russian language. And you really need to know the rules, since intuition may not help you in solving tasks.
Also in the test there will be a creative task - an essay on a given topic. It is worth preparing for this part quite seriously, because the examiners take into account both the style and the fulfillment of all the requirements of grammar, vocabulary, punctuation and the like.
How to find out the preliminary results of the exam
From May 28 to July 2, 2018, the main stage of the state final certification (GIA) in school subjects takes place. A lot depends on the results of the exam, so the period will be exciting. We wish everyone good luck and the highest possible scores!
The exam is held according to a single schedule. All students on the same day will take an exam in a particular subject. For example, during the main stage, everyone passes the Russian language on June 6.
They don't check the work right away. It takes a few days, but the deadlines are regulated. The schedule for processing and publishing the results is posted on the official USE portal. For example, the results of an exam in mathematics at a basic level will be known before June 15, and in Russian - before June 25.
You can find out the results for each subject on the State Services portal or at an educational institution.
English is the most popular of the four languages that are taken as part of the exam. From testing in 2015, the current one is almost the same, with the exception of some improvements in the wording of the task of the oral part and the fact that the passing score for the entire exam has grown to 22 points against last year's 20. Passing English is no more difficult and no easier than German, French or Spanish . The structure of the USE in English also does not differ from the USE in other foreign languages.
Testing is spread over two days. On the first day, the student takes the compulsory written part, which consists of four sections:
- listening;
- reading;
- grammar and vocabulary;
- letter.
In total, there are 40 tasks in the written part, and 180 minutes are allotted for them. If desired, students can come to the second day of the exam and take the oral part, consisting of four tasks (to test speaking skills). You have 15 minutes to complete the oral exam.
It is worth noting that only for the written part you can get no more than 80 points.
The conditions for passing the test in 2019 do not differ from the conditions of the previous year. But before you start taking trial assignments and online tests, study the general information about the exam.
EGE assessment
To pass the exam, you need to correctly solve at least 17 tasks from section 3 or 2 and 3. This way you score 17 primary points, which, when translated into tests, give 22. Use our table to reflect your results in a convenient five-point assessment.
Structure of the USE written test
In 2019, the written part of the test consists of four sections, including 40 tasks.
- Section 1: Listening (1-9), the answers to the tasks are a number or a sequence of numbers.
- Section 2: Reading (10-18), the answers to the tasks are a number or a sequence of numbers.
- Section 3: Grammar and Vocabulary (19–38), the answer to the task is a number, a word or several words, written without spaces and punctuation marks.
- Section 4: Writing (39-40), consists of two tasks - writing a personal letter and a statement with elements of reasoning.
Preparation for the exam
- Pass the USE tests online for free without registration and SMS. The presented tests are identical in their complexity and structure to the real exams held in the corresponding years.
- Download demo versions of the exam in English, which will allow you to better prepare for the exam and make it easier to pass it. All proposed tests were developed and approved for preparation for the Unified State Examination by the Federal Institute of Pedagogical Measurements (FIPI). In the same FIPI, all official versions of the exam are being developed.
The tasks that you will see, most likely, will not be found on the exam, but there will be tasks similar to the demo ones on the same topic.
General USE figures
| Year | Min. USE score | Average score | Number of applicants | Did not pass, % | Qty 100 points |
Duration- exam length, min. |
| 2009 | 20 | |||||
| 2010 | 20 | 55,87 | 73 853 | 5 | 2 | 160 |
| 2011 | 20 | 61,19 | 60 615 | 3,1 | 11 | 160 |
| 2012 | 20 | 60,8 | 74 408 | 3,3 | 28 | 160 |
| 2013 | 20 | 72,4 | 74 668 | 1,8 | 581 | 180 |
| 2014 | 20 | 62,8 | 180 | |||
| 2015 | 22 | 64,8 | 180 | |||
| 2016 | 22 | 180 | ||||
| 2017 | 22 | 180 | ||||
| 2018 |
We continue to prepare for the exam. This time, guys who passed physics with 90+ points share their advice.
YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO WORK WITH A CALCULATOR
Roman Dubovenko, 98 points
I prepared for two months, and after the trial exams, I was predicted a maximum of 60 points. I can give some advice to graduates: you make a book with 30 options - this is for part A. Just each number 30 times, you sort out the mistakes, you watch how the compilers catch children for inattention.
Now part C.
There are certain models and methods for solving problems, each section has its own. You receive a task, remember the topic, the formulas associated with it, the drawing, and express the value that is asked. In physics, it is best to make literal expressions and use the calculator only once (getting rid of errors and mathematical errors). Physicists also love to see the final formula.
Therefore, you need to be able to work with a calculator. And be sure to check the batteries, the numbers should be clear on the display - this is the easiest way to find out how it works.
You monotonously analyze the approaches, but there is always a drawing in the approach, remember this.
I went to the exam with full confidence that I would pass, because I spoiled the result in mathematics because of my own stupidity and understood that I would not make a detailed mistake in physics. The whole part A was similar to the one that I solved during the year, only three tasks were new. Part B is easy. In part C, always check C5 with bated breath - quantum or electrodynamics. Because the most difficult section is electrodynamics. There I made the mistake of giving the co-function of the angle incorrectly. Well, what to do. I was extremely happy with the points, I was upset only because I did not give my teacher 100 points.
EVERYTHING WAS MUCH EASIER THAN I EXPECTED
Anna Kharchina, 96 points
To begin with, until the 10th grade, I did not understand physics at all. But, when we were offered to choose a profile at school for grades 10-11, I had no option other than physics and mathematics. According to the program, we had two hours of physics per week + four hours of electives. In ordinary lessons, we analyzed the theory, while in electives we dug deeper and solved problems. I am very grateful for my preparation to my school teacher, who gave out the theory in a very accessible and systematized way.
In addition to school classes, I had two hours a week of classes with a tutor. With him, we basically consolidated the issued theory and worked on problem areas. At home, on my own, I solved the problem book from cover to cover.
I would like to advise: to keep accurate notes on the theory, so that everything is immediately laid out in the head on the shelves. Get a notebook with formulas (a thin notebook for foreign words will do): write the formula and unit of measurement there, write down all the formulas in sections (mechanics, molecular, thermodynamics, etc.). The fact that all the formulas are in one place will help both in solving problems and in direct preparation for the exam.
Solve problems from resources on the Internet (but sometimes there are problems that are not included in the school curriculum). Solve not by options, but by problem numbers. For example, you choose the first task, choose a topic, print all tasks on this topic and solve them. If there are no particular problems with parts A and B, then they can be solved as a whole option, but from part C of the problem, I recommend solving it by task numbers (for example, this month I am doing only 27 tasks).
Have a good calculator (costs ~ 800 rubles), which calculates trigonometry and everything else. It is very important to buy it in advance and learn how to use it! If you learn all the functions of the calculator, then you will perform calculations at the click of a finger.
At the exam itself, start with a test, and if something doesn’t work out from there, leave it and move on. Before part C, I advise you to take a break, eat a chocolate bar and the like - give the brain a break. If you can’t solve something in part C, then draw pictures and write the whole theory that relates to this problem (this way you can get two points out of three for the problem). Do not forget that there are no tasks on the exam that are not from the school course, and in principle, everything should be within your power.
Physics was the most important subject for me. And most of the time was spent on preparing for it. As a result, physics turned out to be the easiest subject of all that I took (Russian, mathematics profile), and it was for it that I scored the most points. I would like to say that due to the cancellation of answer options, the organizers made part C simpler in order to avoid blockages. That is why everything turned out to be much easier than I imagined. I had one mistake in the test and one in part C. All the problems from this part were familiar to me and had already been solved by me, except for one (at number 28), and I could not complete it.
If you are well prepared, do not be afraid, believe in yourself and in your success. Treat the exam like a normal variant solution. As you sit down in the audience, say to yourself mentally: “This is just an option that I need to work hard on right now. I will succeed".
And if you are not well prepared, then you still have enough time to fix it.
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The Unified State Examination is a standardized form of final examinations for students of secondary schools. A number of such exams, for example, Russian language and mathematics, are mandatory, while from other subjects the student can independently choose to pass those that are familiar to him better than others.Despite the generally standard form of the exam, the details of its organization change somewhat from year to year. Rosobrnadzor is responsible for reviewing these details, which analyzes the results of tests conducted in previous years and clarifies the procedure for conducting them next year in order to provide students with the conditions for passing the exam, allowing them to maximize the knowledge acquired over the years of study. In each specific year, the rules for conducting the exam, including the list of examination subjects, the time allotted for writing the exam for each of them, and other parameters, are approved by a special order.
USE duration
The total length of time allotted for completing the tasks of the unified state exam in a particular subject is also determined by Rosobrnadzor depending on several factors, for example, the complexity of the examination tasks, the total amount of material that a student needs to know in order to successfully pass the exam, and others. At the same time, the duration of time for the exam includes only the time of work on assignments: preliminary briefing, opening of envelopes with texts and other preparatory procedures are not taken into account in the total duration of the exam.The time allotted for writing different exams can vary significantly. So, in 2014, the shortest period of time, only three hours, that is, 180 minutes, was allotted for completing USE assignments in such subjects as biology, geography, chemistry and foreign languages. Thus, all subjects belonging to this category were subjects taken by students by choice.
In 2014, 3.5 hours, that is, 210 minutes, were allocated for completing assignments in one of the compulsory subjects - the Russian language, as well as for writing exams in history and social science. At the same time, in the category of the longest exams, the duration of which was 235 minutes, one of the compulsory subjects is mathematics, and along with it - physics, computer science and literature. At the same time, it should be noted that earlier the time allotted for completing tasks in these subjects was 240 minutes, but in 2012 Rosobrnadzor decided to reduce this period of time by 5 minutes in connection with sanitary norms and rules.
