The exam is held according to a single schedule, which is annually approved by order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
Exams are held in three stages: early, main and additional (September).
Official schedule of the Unified State Examination 2017
In accordance with the timetable, exams in 2017 will be held in three stages: early, main and additional.
The early stage of the exam in 2017 will be held from March 14 to April 7. The main one is from May 29, 2017 to June 30.
The exam in the Russian language and mathematics of the basic level can also be passed in an additional period - from September 4 to 15.
As in 2016, the schedule, along with the reserve terms for conducting the Unified State Examination, the Unified State Examination and the GVE in individual academic subjects, provides for an additional reserve day for conducting exams in all academic subjects. It is necessary for those participants who, for any reason, could not participate in the exam on the main or on the reserve day, for example, due to the coincidence of two selected subjects on the same day or absence for a good reason.
Dates of the Unified State Examination 2017
The early examination period, which is held in March-April, is intended mainly for graduates of previous years.
The main period is traditionally organized in May - June in all subjects for all graduates of the current year.
In the additional period in September, exams are held in compulsory subjects - Russian language and mathematics at the basic level.
Students who have not passed the state final certification in compulsory subjects have the right to take exams in September.
Graduates who have received a certificate of secondary general education and wish to improve satisfactory results in these subjects are not allowed to participate in the Unified State Examination in September. They can retake the exams no earlier than one year later.
To participate in the USE, it is necessary to submit an application by February 1 (inclusive), which should list the subjects for which the participant plans to take the USE. The application can include any number of items.
School graduates of the current year apply for the USE at the place of study. The rest of those who wish must apply to the places of registration for passing the USE, determined by the educational authorities of the subject of the Russian Federation.
As the Minister of Education stated, in 2017 the system of the Unified State Examination is expected to undergo big changes. What new rules for passing the exam in 2017 are representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science talking about, we will try to tell you in more detail.
Rules for passing the exam in 2017
The most important news, which may disappoint some students: there is no talk of any abolition of the USE. The new Minister of Education, on the contrary, noted the need to maintain the system of the unified state exam and its further improvement. But the form of passing the exam, most likely, will undergo changes. And we will talk about the rejection of the test part.
The fact that tests have become obsolete as a form of knowledge testing was stated by the former Minister of Education D. Livanov. He said that the gradual abandonment of the test part of the exam in all subjects without exception is already being considered by his department. And by 2017 we will see the first results of such changes.
According to rumors, the new rules for passing the exam also implied the introduction of a third compulsory subject. History (or biology, according to some sources) was to be added to the pair “Russian language + mathematics”. But since, according to the rules, all important changes must be published before the start of the academic year, and there is no information on the FIPI website, graduates of 2017 can breathe freely - there will be no third compulsory subject
However, the question of a new exam is still open. True, a decision on it will be made after open public discussions, officials from the Ministry of Education assure.
Submission rules for subjects
Russian language
Before the start of the school year, there was talk of introducing a new part to the Russian language exam - "speaking", by analogy with English "speaking", that is, oral speech. However, the Ministry of Education decided to test this option first at the OGE, that is, at ninth graders. After the appropriate “running in”, the oral part of the exam will reach the Unified State Examination.
Thus, global changes in the Russian language exam are not expected. Innovations will be only in part of some tasks, and all innovations will be aimed at expanding the material and complicating it.
Maths
The division into two levels in the mathematics exam is still preserved. Those who decide to link their future profession with the humanities will only need to pass the basic exam, while those who want to enter engineering universities will have to take a more complex profile part. And in this part, small changes are possible: tasks of increased complexity can turn out to be really “high”, that is, requiring a non-standard approach to solving.
Physics
The physics exam will undergo the most serious and significant changes - the rejection of the test part. That is, students will no longer be able to guess the correct answer from the list of options provided. The test part will be replaced by a block with short answers, that is, solutions in the form of numbers or words. Thanks to this innovation, physics will truly become the most difficult exam in the USE list.
Biology
The test part will also be removed from the biology exam. Just like in physics, the place of tests is marked by a model with short answers. The main block of tasks will also be expanded: it will include new, in comparison with previous years, types of tasks. Passing the exam will also require the ability to work with tables, graphs and diagrams - in the exam in biology there will be tasks for restoring the missing "pieces" from tables or flowcharts. But at the same time, the developers assure that the exam will not become too difficult (as in the case of physics).
Chemistry
Another subject from which the test component will be excluded will be chemistry. And even in the block with short answers, changes will appear - for example, there will be several correct options, and the student's task will be to decide how many correct answers the task actually has. The developers seem to have decided to simplify the exam - in the Unified State Examination in Chemistry 2017, the number of tasks will decrease.
Social science, history, computer science, foreign language, geography remain practically unchanged. All these items, according to officials from the Ministry of Education, will not cause any problems for schoolchildren.
May 29 the main period of passing the exam starts. As in previous years, graduates will have to pass two mandatory exams and an unlimited number of elective exams.
Separately, it should be said about mathematics and a foreign language.
There is a basic and profile exam in mathematics. If a graduate after school is not going to enter higher education programs that require mathematics, then he may well limit himself to passing the basic exam. If he plans to storm the programs of technical, economic or natural sciences, he should take the profile version of the exam. However, nothing prevents you from choosing two options at once. But remember: if you pass the basic exam and fail the profile exam, you will no longer be able to retake the last one this year, you will have to wait for the next year. If you initially chose only the core math exam and fail to pass it, you will have another attempt this year. That is, for those who ironically decided to connect their student life with the exact sciences, it is still better to choose only a profile exam in mathematics.
Here the choice is between "take the oral part" or "not take". If you pass, then you have a chance to get 100 points for the entire exam. If you do not pass, then the maximum score for you is limited to 80 points. This is enough to get a high school diploma and enroll in a higher education program with low foreign language requirements. If you are a future linguist, philologist, journalist or other representative of the humanities and social sciences, you must definitely take the oral part.
What will change in the exam 2017
There are rumors on the Internet that supposedly in 2017 there will be more compulsory subjects. We hasten to assure you: this is not so. There are still two compulsory subjects - Russian and mathematics. The information is easy to check on the official page of Rosobrnadzor.
However, there are changes for individual exams. They relate to the structure and content of control and measuring materials (CMM).
Natural Science Subjects: Significant Changes
Biology:
- The total number of tasks has been reduced from 40 to 28.
- The maximum primary score is 59 (last year it was 61).
- The duration of the exam is 210 minutes (last year it was 180).
- New types of tasks have appeared in part 1: fill in the missing elements of a diagram or table, find the correctly indicated symbols in a figure, analyze or summarize information in the form of text, graphs, diagrams, tables, etc.
Chemistry:
- Questions with a choice of one answer have been removed.
- Part 1 tasks have been regrouped into separate blocks. Now in each of them there is both a basic and an advanced level of difficulty.
- The total number of tasks has been reduced from 40 to 34.
- For tasks 9 and 17, the grading scale has changed. The correct answer now gives not one, but two points. These questions test the assimilation of knowledge about the genetic relationship of inorganic and organic substances.
- The maximum primary score for the entire exam is 60 (last year it was 64).
Physics
The changes concern only the first part of the exam:
- Questions with a choice of one answer have been removed.
- Added short answer questions.
Humanitarian Items: Minor Changes
Social science
In the first part there is a block of tasks that test knowledge of the law. Now it is structured like blocks that check the content of other sections of the course:
- Added task 17 to choose the right judgments.
- The numbering of tasks 18 (former 17), 19 (former 18) has been changed.
- Task 19, in the form in which it existed in the KIM of previous years, was excluded from the exam.
Story:
- Tasks 3 and 8 have changed the grading scale. The correct answer now gives not one, but two points.
- The wording of task 25 and the criteria for its evaluation have been improved.
The wording of task 3 of the oral part of the exam was clarified.
The schedule of the unified state exam (USE) for 2019 was approved by joint orders of the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science and the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and registered by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. Download order.
The exam in 2019 for grade 11 will traditionally be held in three stages:
The early and main periods of the Unified State Examination will begin with exams in geography and literature. In each of the periods of examinations, reserve periods are provided.
Graduates of past years can take the USE in the early period and reserve dates of the main period of the USE, graduates of the current year - in the main dates of the main period. Graduates who have coincided with the timing of examinations in individual subjects can also pass them in reserve terms. It is possible to take part in the Unified State Exam at other times only if there are good reasons (illness or other circumstances), documented and the relevant decision of the state examination committee.
Early period of the Unified State Examination 2019 (GIA grade 11)
Graduates who received unsatisfactory results in the Russian language and mathematics, or who repeatedly received an unsatisfactory result in one of these subjects on a reserve day, can participate in the USE in the Russian language and mathematics of the basic level in the additional (September) period.
Additional period (September terms)
The same orders approved the duration of the examinations and the list of additional teaching aids that can be carried with you during examinations in various subjects. They remained unchanged from last year.
The exam in all subjects begins at 10.00 local time.
USE duration in mathematics at the profile level, physics, literature, computer science and information and communication technologies (ICT), social science, history is 3 hours 55 minutes (235 minutes); in Russian, chemistry, biology - 3 hours 30 minutes (210 minutes); in basic mathematics, geography, foreign languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese) (except for the "Speaking" section) - 3 hours (180 minutes); in foreign languages (English, French, German, Spanish) (Speaking section) - 15 minutes; in Chinese (section "Speaking") - 12 minutes.
Exam participants use the means of training and education to complete the tasks of the USE control measuring materials in the classrooms of the examination point.
It is allowed to use the following means of education and upbringing in the relevant academic subjects by the participants of the examinations:
In mathematics - a ruler that does not contain reference information (hereinafter referred to as a ruler) for constructing drawings and drawings;
In physics - a ruler for plotting graphs, optical and electrical circuits; a non-programmable calculator that performs arithmetic calculations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, root extraction) and the calculation of trigonometric functions (sin, cos, tg, ctg, arctg, arccos, arcsin), and also does not perform the functions of a communication facility, database storage and having no access to data transmission networks (including the Internet) (hereinafter referred to as a non-programmable calculator);
In chemistry - a non-programmable calculator; periodic system of chemical elements D.I. Mendeleev, table of solubility of salts, acids and bases in water, electrochemical series of metal voltages;
In geography - a ruler for measuring distances on a topographic map; a protractor that does not contain reference information for determining azimuths on a topographic map; non-programmable calculator;
In foreign languages - technical means that ensure the reproduction of audio recordings contained on electronic media to complete the tasks of the "Listening" section of the KIM USE; computer equipment that does not have access to the Internet, an audio headset for completing tasks in the "Speaking" section of the KIM USE.
A lot of next year's graduates are starting to ask questions about what changes can happen in the Unified State Examination, what subjects are and, of course, how many exams in 2017. Today's tenth graders are already preparing for the most important exam in their school life.
Conscious students take their textbooks tighter, go to tutors and preparatory courses, read and re-read notes on preparing for the Unified State Exam in order to successfully pass it and enter a good university.
Parents of future graduates are seriously concerned about the upcoming testing: having just passed the GIA, the kids will once again plunge into an atmosphere of constant stress.
And, along with young people, caring mothers and fathers roam the endless "web" of the Internet, trying to find both reliable information and more or less true rumors regarding the Unified State Examination in 2017.
How many exams in 2017
Already now it is possible with absolute certainty to name the exact dates of the event, as well as remember the dates for past periods.
USE schedule for 2017
Early period:
- April 10 (Mon) reserve - geography, chemistry, informatics and ICT, foreign languages (oral), history;
- April 12 (Wed) reserve - foreign languages, literature, physics, social studies, biology;
- April 14 (Fri) reserve - Russian language, mathematics B, P.
Main stage:
Reserve period:
USE schedule in 2015-2016
| the date | USE subjects | ||
| 2015 | 2016 | 2015 | 2016 |
| early period | |||
| March 23 (Mon) | March 21 (Mon) | Mathematics (basic level) | |
| March 26 (Thu) | March 23 (Wed) | Informatics and ICT, history | |
| March 28 (Sat) | March 25 (Fri) | Geography, literature | Russian language |
| March 30 (Mon) | March 28 (Mon) | Russian language | Mathematics (profile level) |
| April 4 (Sat) | March 30 (Wed) | Social science, chemistry | Social science |
| April 10 (Fri) | April 1 (Fri) | Foreign languages, physics | Geography, literature |
| April 11 (Sat) | April 2 (Sat) | Foreign languages (oral) | Physics chemistry |
| April 18 (Sat) | April 8 (Fri) | Computer science, biology, history | Foreign languages (oral) |
| April 9 (Sat) | Foreign languages, biology | ||
| Reserve days | |||
| April 20 (Mon) | April 15 (Fri) | Russian language | |
| April 21 (Mon) | April 16 (Sat) | ||
| April 22 (Wed) | April 21 (Thu) | Literature, chemistry, informatics and ICT | |
| April 23 (Thu) | April 22 (Fri) | Foreign languages, history, biology, computer science | Foreign languages, history, social studies |
| April 24 (Fri) | April 23 (Sat) | Foreign languages (oral) | Foreign languages (oral), geography, physics, biology |
| Main Period | |||
| May 25 (Mon) | May 27 (Fri) | Geography, literature | |
| May 28 (Thu) | May 30 (Mon) | Russian language | |
| June 1 (Mon) | June 2 (Thu) | Mathematics (basic level) | |
| June 4 (Thurs) | June 6 (Mon) | Mathematics (profile level) | |
| June 8 (Mon) | June 8 (Wed) | Social science, chemistry | Social science |
| June 11 (Thu) | June 10 (Fri) | Foreign languages, chemistry | Foreign languages (oral) |
| June 15 (Mon) | June 11 (Sat) | Foreign languages, physics | |
| June 17 (Wed) | June 14 (Tue) | Foreign languages (oral) | Foreign languages, biology |
| June 18 (Thu) | June 16 (Thu) | Informatics and ICT, history | |
| June 20 (Mon) | Chemistry, physics | ||
| Reserve days | |||
| June 22 (Mon) | June 22 (Wed) | Russian language | Geography, foreign languages, chemistry, social studies, informatics and ICT |
| June 23 (Tue) | June 23 (Thu) | Mathematics (basic level), mathematics (profile level) | Foreign languages (oral) |
| June 24 (Wed) | June 24 (Fri) | Geography, chemistry, literature, social science, physics | Literature, physics, history, biology |
| June 25 (Thu) | June 27 (Mon) | Foreign languages, history, biology, informatics and ICT | Russian language |
| June 26 (Fri) | June 28 (Tue) | Foreign languages (oral) | Mathematics (basic level), mathematics (profile level) |
| June 30 (Thu) | In all subjects | ||
Based on the table, we can draw certain conclusions:
- in 2017, the early period for passing the exam, will probably begin in the twentieth of March, with the first reserve days for passing exams in mid-April;
- the main period for passing the exam, most likely, will begin at the end of the twentieth of May, with the beginning of the reserve days for passing the exam in the twentieth of June.
What changes are planned in the USE-2017
The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation is going to remove the test part from the Unified State Exam. Previously, tests gave the student, who was not quite sure of the correct answer, several options to choose from. That is, there was a danger of "blind" testing, when schoolchildren put answer options at random, relying on intuition.
This testing system, of course, played into the hands of negligent graduates who failed to properly prepare for the exam. It is assumed that from 2017 the survey form will completely return (as it was before 2009).
Also, the head of the Russian Academy of Education, Lyudmila Verbitskaya, announced the real possibility of entering the oral part in the USE in 2017. She recalled that the oral part had already been added to the foreign language exam and clarified that a more perfect study of the oral exam was needed for the Russian language exam.
In addition to the above innovations, with which the Russian Academy of Education “pleased” us, it is also planned to introduce an assessment system for essays. Previously, eleventh-graders received a pass/fail for their graduation presentation.
Moreover, each student will have the opportunity to retake the essay if an unsatisfactory mark is received for it. However, this can only be done once, otherwise the student will have to wait a whole year to pass all the exams.
