The Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science has summed up the preliminary results of the Unified State Exam in the Russian language, which was held during the main exam date on June 9.

Almost 617 thousand people took part in the exam. The average USE score in the Russian language in 2017 is comparable to last year's result.

The minimum threshold for obtaining a certificate of 24 points did not exceed 0.5% of the exam participants (in 2016, their number was 1%).

“This year the trend of improving results in compulsory subjects continues. The share of graduates who were left without certificates decreased by almost 1.5 times, and this is not taking into account the results of the upcoming retakes. These results testify to the success of the project "I will pass the exam" and are the result of serious targeted work that was carried out with lagging schoolchildren in regions and municipalities, where uSE results of the past years have revealed serious problems with the level of school education, ”said the head of Rosobrnadzor Sergei Kravtsov.

The minimum threshold of 36 points, below which universities cannot set the passing score of the USE in the Russian language for applicants, could not be overcome by 1.6% of participants. In 2016 the number participants of the exam for the Russian language, who did not overcome this threshold, amounted to 2.5%.

Due to the large-scale introduction of a new technology for scanning the participants' work at the examination points (PES), the examination of the work and the processing of the USE results in the Russian language was completed ahead of schedule. Exam participants will be able to find out their result five days earlier - from June 22 ..

Graduates of the current year who were unable to recruit the required certificate minimum score on the Unified State Exam in Russian, but received a positive result on the Unified State Exam in Mathematics, they will be able to retake the Russian language in the reserve deadline for passing the Unified State Exam - June 29.

The unified state exam in Russian was held on June 9, 2017. In Moscow, about 55 thousand people took part in it, according to the Regional Information Processing Center of the city of Moscow.

"For the delivery of a single state examination about 55 thousand participants were registered in the Russian language, of which 53 954 were graduates of the current year, ”said Andrey Postulgin, head of the regional information processing center in Moscow.

To conduct exams, 282 examination points were prepared, located in educational institutions of the city, as well as 3 - in healthcare institutions and 30 - at home (for participants with disabilities health).

To ensure control over the observance of the procedure for holding the exam, 1 229 public observersaccredited by the Moscow Department of Education.

“To ensure the transparency of the procedures for the USE, the points are equipped with a video surveillance system. When holding the exam in Russian on June 9, more than 18 thousand workers were involved educational organizations the cities of Moscow, which have undergone appropriate training at the Moscow Center for the Quality of Education, ”noted Andrey Postulgin.

The examination paper in the Russian language consists of two parts and contains 25 tasks. The exam duration is 3 hours 30 minutes (210 minutes).

“To obtain a certificate, this year's graduates must successfully pass exams in compulsory subjects (Russian language and mathematics),” explained Andrei Postulgin.

Graduates of 2017 who have received an unsatisfactory result in one of the compulsory academic subjects are given the right to retake the exam in additional terms on June 28 (mathematics), June 29 (Russian), July 1 (all subjects).

If a graduate receives an unsatisfactory result in two compulsory academic subjects (Russian and mathematics), or receives a repeated unsatisfactory result in one of these subjects on a reserve day, the possibility of retaking will be provided in an additional (September) period - from 5 to 16 September.

The approximate schedule of the announcement of the results in all subjects is published on the official website of the regional information processing center of the city of Moscow. The results of examinations and images of the answer sheets of the USE participants can be viewed at. In addition, for exam participants and their parents, it is possible to receive automatic notifications about the publication of results. You can subscribe to notifications in the personal account of the Official website of the Moscow Mayor and by e-mail, and in the mobile application menu - for push notifications.

Graduates can quickly receive news about the state final certification using the application, by subscribing to the official channel of the Moscow Center for Education Quality, as well as in social groups MCCO on Facebook.

The series of final exams for eleventh graders is over. Schoolchildren have already passed exams in all subjects, and this has closed the main period of delivery.

The average score in Russia on the Unified State Exam in the Russian language in 2017 was 69.06. Statistical calculations of this year's results are still ongoing.

Until 2017, the right to retake the USE was granted only to persons who did not overcome the minimum threshold in compulsory subjects, on the delivery of which the obtaining of a certificate depends. One of the important innovations of 2017 was the ability to retake any subject submitted to the exam.

Thus, in 2018 it will be possible to get a second attempt in the Russian language, mathematics, physics, computer science, literature, chemistry, biology, geography, social studies, history or foreign languages.

It is important to consider the following facts:

  1. You can retake only 1 exam.
  2. You can now try to retake an item twice.
  3. You can retake one subject if there is a good reason (documentary evidence is required) or at will (in order to increase the score, you can retake the exam next year).
  4. Graduates of previous years who took part in the preliminary or main session of the Unified State Examination-2018 and received an unsatisfactory score do not receive the right to retake.
  5. If a graduate is not allowed to retake in 2018, he can re-take the exam in a year.

The results of the exam in the Russian language 2018 are already known

The Unified State Exam in Russian is one of the compulsory subjects for delivery at school. On Wednesday, June 6, 2018, graduates of Russian schools took an exam in Russian. Along with mathematics, Russian is necessary for passing not only for admission, but also for obtaining a certificate.

The examination sheet for the Russian language contained 26 tasks. The student was given three and a half hours to solve these tasks. It was necessary to try and score at least 36 points for admission to the university. To receive a school certificate, an eleventh grader had to earn 24 points.

Recently, a new wave of the unified state exam has started, and in the 8 years that the Unified State Exam has existed on a mandatory basis, the controversy around it has not subsided. In this material, we are attempting to show in dynamics the average USE scores in Russian language and mathematics in the regions, and also to explain what may be associated with regional differences in exam results.

The data presented here is collected from open sources. The USE results were obtained from the regional websites of educational departments and centers for assessing the quality of education. Other indicators are collected on the websites of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Rosstat, and the Federal Treasury.

USE results: regional differences

If you look at the map, you can see that the regions of the Central Federal District show the highest average scores in both Russian and mathematics. In 2015, the Orenburg and Samara regions were among the leaders in the Russian language, as well as Perm region, in profile mathematics - the Republic of Kalmykia, Perm Territory and Udmurtia. The lowest results, contrary to stereotypes, are observed not in the North Caucasian regions, but in the Far East.

Of particular interest is the dynamics of the USE results in the regions. It is incorrect to compare scores by year directly - the exam has gone through many changes over the years. For example, in 2013, during the massive leaks of answers, the scores of the participants in the country as a whole turned out to be higher, and in 2014, after tightening security measures, they fell. With this in mind, we looked at the position of the regions in relation to the mean score in Russia and used standardized z-scores. In other words, we compared the dynamics of the regions relative to the national average. The results of the regions in 2010 and 2014 were compared, since during this period the content and structure of the exam were the most stable.

In general, 16 subjects of the Russian Federation demonstrated significant (more than one standard deviation) growth over these five years in mathematics, and in Russian - 11. Basically, these are the regions that in 2010 showed results below the average. A serious decrease in scores occurred in mathematics in 6, and in Russian in 3 regions - where in 2010 there were quite high scores. In constituent entities of the Russian Federation with average results significant changes in points did not happen.

Factors of regional differences in USE results

2009-2014 years:

In order to understand what explains the results of the USE in mathematics and the Russian language in 2009-2014, we analyzed their relationship with a number of regional characteristics. The focus was, firstly, on the role of resource provision for schools, and secondly, on the role of family resources.

School resources are largely determined by the size of government funding. If we adjust the volume of per capita financing of schools for inflation and differences between regions in the cost of living, then the growth of this indicator from 2006 to 2013 was about 40 percent. At the same time, the maximum gap in per capita financing over the same period decreased slightly - from 6 to 5 times. The largest increase in school funding occurred in 2012, when the May Presidential Decrees were adopted.

Changes in school funding are important to student outcomes. According to our estimates, regions with a higher level of per capita funding show higher average USE scores in mathematics (with an equal level of economic development, household income, and a number of other characteristics of the regions). In the Russian language, there is a significant relationship between USE results and per capita financing (taking into account other regional indicators) in 2009-2014. not detected. This can partly be explained by the fact that in the results on the Russian language play an important role social characteristics families.

The main share in the budget financing of schools is made up of teachers' salaries. At the same time, the dynamics of their salaries relative to the average level of wages in the region is important. On the whole, these dynamics were positive. The most significant increase in the relative salaries of teachers was observed in 2008 and in 2012-2013, with a slight decrease in 2007 and 2010.

According to our estimates, the level of teachers' salaries relative to the average salary in the region is positively associated with regional results Unified State Exam in both Russian and mathematics. Wages determine which teachers will come to schools and with what attitude they will work. For example, data from a 2012 PISA survey of school principals show that in regions with higher relative salaries, teachers are more motivated, enthusiastic, and driven to achieve.

In addition to the state, families invest in children's education. The resources of families are determined by their income. Our analysis shows that in regions with a high level of poverty (the proportion of people with incomes below the subsistence minimum), the USE results are lower. The high level of income inequality within the region also negatively affects the average USE scores (with an equal level of budgetary funding for schools and a number of other regional characteristics).

In other words, family resources are also important for enhancing the educational achievement of schoolchildren. At the same time, in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation with low incomes of the population, on average, the resources of regional budgets are lower, and hence the financing of schools.

In general, at this stage, the leveling of the level of budgetary funding for schools between regions is not enough to level the scores of children.

2015 year:

If we talk about the results of 2015, the gap between the regions with the minimum and maximum average USE scores can be 28 points in Russian and 16 in mathematics. Socio-economic characteristics of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation (gross regional product, school funding per student, share of the population with higher education, as well as the share of the urban population) by 25 percent explain the average USE score in mathematics and 34 percent - the average USE score in Russian. Children from less affluent regions are less likely to get high scores on the exam than those who live in the more economically developed part of the country. Moreover, in the Russian language, this gap is somewhat larger than in mathematics.

Almost to the same extent (28 percent in mathematics and 30 percent in Russian) the regional average scores are explained by the characteristics of schools and teachers. It is important to consider how many children in the region after grade 9 go to college, and how many remain in high school and take the exam. Our analysis shows that in schools where fewer than half of the ninth graders remain in high school, the results are also higher than in schools where the selection (or self-selection) of children is less strict.

Teacher characteristics also matter. In all regions, teachers with completed higher education prevail, however, where there are more than 80 percent of such teachers, the results of the USE are higher. But the relationship between the results and the category of teacher turned out to be not so unambiguous - the highest results were among graduates in the regions where the proportion of teachers with the highest category varies from 22 to 30 percent.

Thus, our analysis shows how unequal are the chances of high USE scores among students from different regions. By the way, the average results of Moscow schoolchildren on the exam are 13 points in profile mathematics and 5 points in the Russian language higher than those of schoolchildren from the Republic of Buryatia.

In general, economic and educational characteristics regions determine the USE scores by 64 percent in Russian and by 53 percent in mathematics. At the same time, these factors are outside the sphere of influence of the teachers and schools themselves, therefore it is incorrect to evaluate them according to this result.

conclusions

As our analysis shows, in Russia there are quite large regional differences in educational outcomes schoolchildren. These differences can determine the future fate of children, including, affect admission to universities.

This difference is largely due to the extent to which students are provided with educational resources. Inequality in resources exists both at the family level and at the level of public funding for schools. Often one accompanies the other.

Our analysis does not take into account variations in the scores of a single exam within regions, although this task seems to be extremely useful in developing educational policy measures. Such an analysis requires access to impersonal USE data for researchers. In developed countries, the results of such tests are used to analyze and develop management decisions, and it is important to use this experience in Russia as well.

The Unified State Exam as an objective tool for assessing school graduates has shown the existence of a problem with inequality in education. You cannot place all the responsibility for solving this problem on the exam itself or on the teachers. Equalizing educational opportunities is a public policy challenge.


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