About the exam
| date | Unified State Exam |
|---|---|
| Early period | |
| March 20 (Wed) | geography, literature |
| March 22 (Fri) | Russian language |
| March 25 (Mon) | history, chemistry |
| March 27 (Wed) | foreign languages(orally) |
| March 29 (Fri) | mathematics B, P |
| April 1 (Mon) | foreign languages, biology, physics |
| April 3 (Wed) | social studies, computer science and ICT |
| April 5 (Fri) | reserve: geography, chemistry, computer science and ICT, foreign languages (oral), history |
| April 8 (Mon) | reserve: foreign languages, literature, physics, social studies, biology |
| April 10 (Wed) | reserve: Russian language, mathematics B, P |
| Main stage | |
| May 27 (Mon) | geography, literature |
| May 29 (Wed) | mathematics B, P |
| May 31 (Fri) | history, chemistry |
| June 3 (Mon) | Russian language |
| June 5 (Wed) | foreign languages (written), physics |
| June 7 (Fri) | foreign languages (oral) |
| June 8 (Sat) | foreign languages (oral) |
| June 10 (Mon) | social science |
| June 13 (Thu) | biology, computer science and ICT |
| June 17 (Mon) | Reserve: geography, literature |
| June 18 (Tue) | Reserve: history, physics |
| June 20 (Thu) | Reserve: biology, computer science and ICT, chemistry |
| June 24 (Mon) | Reserve: mathematics B, P |
| June 26 (Wed) | Reserve: Russian language |
| June 27 (Thu) | Reserve: foreign languages (oral) |
| June 28 (Fri) | Reserve: social studies, foreign languages (written) |
| July 1 (Mon) | Reserve: for all academic subjects |
The total number of examinees in 2018 was more than 49 thousand people, which is higher than in 2017 and 2016. These data indicate a certain stability in choosing the Unified State Exam in literature by graduates entering universities of the relevant profile.
The average test score in 2018 was 61.4, slightly higher than in 2017 (59.6) and 2016 (57.9).
The most numerous are the groups of examinees who received 41-60 and 61-80 points. (32% and 43% of participants, respectively). The group of high scorers makes up about 15% of total number participants.
Compared to 2017, in 2018 the proportion of examinees with results in the range of low (21–40) and average (41–60) scores decreased. There continues to be a trend toward an increase in the proportion of well-prepared participants with results of 61–80 t.b. (an increase of 3%), which is, in particular, due to the tendency to improve the quality of teaching the subject “Literature” in the context of the introduction of the final essay.
The minimum primary score of the Unified State Examination in 2018 was 15 points. The share of graduates who did not score the minimum number of points in 2018 is 5.2%.
Analysis of the 2018 Unified State Examination results confirms the preservation of the measurement properties of the examination model and allows us to state that the degree of complexity of the KIM tasks is generally adequate to the cognitive abilities of the examinees and makes it possible to differentiate them for admission to universities with different requirements for the level of preparation in literature.
More detailed analytical and teaching materials The 2018 Unified State Exam is available here.
Our website presents about 1,600 tasks to prepare for the Unified State Exam in Literature in 2018. Overall plan exam paper presented below.
EXAMINATION PLAN FOR THE USE IN LITERATURE 2019
Designation of the level of difficulty of the task: B - basic, P - advanced, V - high.
Content elements and activities tested |
Task difficulty level |
Maximum score for completing the task |
Estimated task completion time (min.) |
| Exercise 1. | |||
| Task 2. Epic, lyrical, dramatic works. | |||
| Task 3. Epic, lyrical, dramatic works. | |||
| Task 4. Epic, lyrical, dramatic works. | |||
| Task 5. Epic, lyrical, dramatic works. | |||
| Task 6. Epic, lyrical, dramatic works. | |||
| Task 7. Epic, lyrical, dramatic works. | |||
| Task 8. Epic, lyrical, dramatic works. | |||
| Task 9. Epic, lyrical, dramatic works. | |||
| Task 10. Lyrical works. | |||
| Task 11. Lyrical works. | |||
| Task 12. Lyrical works. | |||
| Task 13. Lyrical works. | |||
| Task 14. Lyrical works. | Task 15. Lyrical works. | ||
| Task 16. Lyrical works. | |||
| Task 17.1. According to ancient Russian literature or XVIII literature V. - first half of the 19th century. | |||
| Task 17.2. According to the literature of the second half of the nineteenth century. | |||
| Task 17.3. Based on the literature of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. | Task 17.4. By literature of the 19th century V. - beginning of the XXI V. |
Correspondence between minimum raw scores and 2018 minimum test scores. Order on amendments to Appendix No. 2 to the order Federal service on supervision in the field of education and science. .
OFFICIAL SCALE 2019
THRESHOLD SCORE
The order of Rosobrnadzor established minimal amount points, confirming that examination participants have mastered the basic general education programs of secondary (complete) general education in accordance with the requirements of the federal state educational standard of secondary (complete) general education. LITERATURE THRESHOLD: 15 primary points (32 test points).
EXAMINATION FORMS
Download forms at high quality you can follow the link.
WHAT YOU CAN BRING WITH YOU TO THE EXAM
The use of additional equipment and materials is not provided for this exam.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"The Tale of Igor's Campaign."
- D. I. Fonvizin. The play "The Minor".
- G. R. Derzhavin. Poem "Monument".
- V. A. Zhukovsky. Poem “Sea”, ballad “Svetlana”.
- A. S. Griboyedov. The play "Woe from Wit".
- A. S. Pushkin. Poems:“Village”, “Prisoner”, “In the depths of the Siberian ores...”, “Poet”, “To Chaadaev”, “Song of prophetic Oleg"", "To the Sea", "Nanny", "K***" ("I remember wonderful moment…"), "19. October" (“The forest drops its crimson attire...”), “Prophet”, “Winter Road”, “Anchar”, “The darkness of the night lies on the hills of Georgia...”, “I loved you: love is still there, perhaps...”, “ Winter morning"", "Demons", "Conversation between a bookseller and a poet", "Cloud", "I erected a monument to myself not made by hands...", "It went out daylight...”, “The Desert Sower of Freedom...”, “Imitations of the Koran” (IX. “And the weary traveler grumbled at God...”) “Elegy”, (“The faded joy of crazy years...”), “...I visited again...”. Novels « Captain's daughter" and "Eugene Onegin". Poem"Bronze Horseman".
- M. Yu. Lermontov. Poems:“No, I’m not Byron, I’m different...”, “Clouds”, “Beggar”, “From under a mysterious, cold half-mask...”, “Sail”, “Death of a Poet”, “Borodino”, “When the yellowing field is agitated... ”, “Duma”, “Poet” (“My dagger shines with a golden finish...”), “Three palm trees”, “Prayer” (“In a difficult moment of life...”), “Both boring and sad”, “No, not you I love so passionately...", "Motherland", "Dream" ("In the midday heat in the valley of Dagestan..."), "Prophet", "How often, surrounded by a motley crowd...", "Valerik", "I go out alone on the road ..." Poems“Song about... merchant Kalashnikov” and “Mtsyri”. Novel"Hero of our time".
- N.V. Gogol. The play "The Inspector General". The story "The Overcoat". Poem "Dead Souls".
- A. N. Ostrovsky. The play "The Thunderstorm".
- I. S. Turgenev. Novel "Fathers and Sons".
- F. I. Tyutchev. Poems: “Noon”, “There is melodiousness in sea waves...”, “The kite rose from the clearing...”, “In the primordial autumn...”, “Silentium!”, “Not what you think, nature...”, “You can’t understand Russia with the mind...”, “Oh, how we love murderously...", "It is not possible for us to predict...", "K. B." (“I met you - and all the past ...”), “Nature is a sphinx. And the more true it is...”
- A. A. Fet. Poems: “Dawn bids farewell to the earth...”, “With one push, drive away a living boat...”, “Evening,” “Learn from them - from the oak, from the birch...”, “This morning, this joy...”, “Whisper, timid breathing...", "The night was shining. The garden was full of moonlight. They were lying...", "It was still a May night."
- I. A. Goncharov. Novel "Oblomov".
- N. A. Nekrasov. Poems:“Troika”, “I don’t like your irony...”, “Railroad”, “On the road”, “Yesterday, around six o’clock...”, “You and I stupid people...”, “Poet and Citizen”, “Elegy” (“Let him speak to us changing fashion..."), "Oh Muse! I’m at the door of the coffin...” Poem“Who lives well in Rus'.”
- M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin. Fairy tales:“The story of how one man fed two generals,” “ Wild landowner», « The wise minnow». Novel“The History of a City” (survey study).
- L. N. Tolstoy. Novel "War and Peace".
- F. M. Dostoevsky. Novel "Crime and Punishment".
- N. S. Leskov. One piece (of the examinee’s choice).
A.P. Chekhov. Stories:“Student”, “Ionych”, “Man in a Case”, “Lady with a Dog”, “Death of an Official”, “Chameleon”. Play"The Cherry Orchard".
- I. A. Bunin. Stories: “Mr. from San Francisco”, “Clean Monday”.
- M. Gorky. The story “Old Woman Izergil”, the play “At the Bottom”.
- A. A. Blok. Poems:“Stranger”, “Russia”, “Night, street, lantern, pharmacy...”, “In a restaurant”, “The river spreads out. Flows, lazily sad..." (from the cycle "On the Kulikovo Field"), "On railway", "I enter dark temples...", "Factory", "Rus", "About valor, about exploits, about glory...", "Oh, I want to live madly...", poem"Twelve".
- V. V. Mayakovsky. Poems:“Could you?”, “Listen!”, “Violin and a little nervously”, “Lilichka!”, “Anniversary”, “Sitting over”, “Here!”, “ Good attitude to horses”, “An extraordinary adventure that happened with Vladimir Mayakovsky in the summer at the dacha”, “Giveaway sale”, “Letter to Tatyana Yakovleva”. Poem"A cloud in pants".
- S. A. Yesenin. Poems:“Go you, Rus', my dear!..”, “Do not wander, do not crush in the crimson bushes...”, “Now we are leaving little by little...”, “Letter to the mother,” “The feather grass is sleeping. Dear plain...", "You are my Shagane, Shagane...", "I do not regret, I do not call, I do not cry...", "Soviet Rus'", "The road was thinking about the red evening...", "The hewn horns began to sing...", "Rus" , “Pushkin”, “I am walking through the valley. On the back of the head is a cap...", "A low house with blue shutters...".
- M. I. Tsvetaeva. Poems:“My poems, written so early...”, “Poems to Blok” (“ Your name- a bird in hand..."), "Who is created from stone, who is created from clay...", "Longing for the homeland! A long time ago...", "Books in red binding", "To Grandmother", "Seven hills - like seven bells!.." (from the series "Poems about Moscow").
- O. E. Mandelstam. Poems:“Notre Dame”, “Insomnia. Homer. Tight sails...", "For the explosive valor of the coming centuries...", "I returned to my city, familiar to tears...".
- A. A. Akhmatova. Poems:"Song last meeting"," She clasped her hands under dark veil...”, “I don’t need odic armies...”, “I had a voice. He called comfortingly...", " Motherland", "Tear-stained autumn, like a widow...", "Seaside Sonnet", "Before spring there are days like this...", "I am not with those who abandoned the earth...", "Poems about St. Petersburg", " Courage". Poem"Requiem".
- M. A. Sholokhov. Novel " Quiet Don", the story "The Fate of Man".
- M. A. Bulgakov. Novel " White Guard"(choice allowed), novel "The Master and Margarita" (choice allowed).
- A. T. Tvardovsky. Poems:“The whole point is in one single covenant...”, “In memory of the mother” (“In the land where they were taken in droves...”), “I know, it’s not my fault...”. Poem“Vasily Terkin” (chapters “Crossing”, “Two Soldiers”, “Duel”, “Death and the Warrior”).
- B. L. Pasternak. Poems:"February. Get out the ink and cry!..”, “Definition of poetry”, “I want to achieve everything...”, “Hamlet”, “Winter Night” (“Chalk, chalk all over the earth...”), “No one will be in the house. ..”, “It’s snowing”, “About these poems”, “Loving others is a heavy cross...”, “Pines”, “Rime”, “July”. Novel“Doctor Zhivago” (overview study with analysis of fragments).
- A. P. Platonov. One piece (of the examinee’s choice).
- A. I. Solzhenitsyn. Story " Matrenin Dvor", "One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich."
The examination work in literature is based on a system of step-by-step testing of graduates’ abilities to perceive and analyze works of art in their genre and generic specifics, based on knowledge of a historical, literary and theoretical literary nature. Preparing for an exam in literature involves students repeating all the course material, the content of which is determined by the mandatory minimum for the subject.
The 2010 demo version contains three parts containing a set of tasks to determine the level of graduates' preparation in literature.
The first and second parts offer tasks that include questions for the analysis of works named in the mandatory minimum content literary education. The ability of graduates to determine the main elements of content and artistic structure studied works (topics and problems, heroes and events, artistic techniques, different kinds tropes, etc.), as well as consider specific literary works in conjunction with other course material.
The general structure of the first 2 parts of the work is subordinated to the task of broad content coverage of literary material.
Literary texts offered for analysis make it possible not only to test students’ knowledge of specific works, but also their ability to analyze the text taking into account its genre. The last task of each of the first 2 parts of the work involves entering a broad literary context: the problems of the analyzed work (fragment) are included in the literary connections of the course. Thus, relying on intra-subject connections of the studied course allows for additional coverage of the content of the tested literary material.
The last (3rd) part of the work requires students to make a full-length, detailed statement in literary theme problematic in nature (thus, to what was worked out in parts 1-2 literary material another content component of the course being tested is added).
Part 1, which involves the analysis of a fragment of an epic (or dramatic) work, consists of 7 tasks with a short answer (B) and 2 tasks with a detailed answer of limited scope (C1, C2). When completing a short answer task, the examinee is required to write a word or combination of words. Tasks with extended answers. limited volume (C1, C2) require writing a coherent text of 5-10 sentences.
Part 2 involves the analysis of a lyrical work and includes 5 tasks with a short answer (B) and 2 tasks with a detailed answer of limited scope (C3, C4). General requirements for completing these tasks are the same as for part 1.
Following the proposed work algorithm allows students to identify the place and role of an episode (scene) in general structure works (analysis of a fragment), reveal plot-compositional, figurative-thematic and stylistic features analyzed text, summarize your observations in a literary context.
Part 3 tests the ability to construct a coherent, meaningful speech statement on a given literary topic, formulated in the form of a question of a problematic nature. The graduate is offered 3 questions (C5.1 - C5.3), covering the most important milestones of the national historical and literary process: 1 - on the works of ancient Russian literature, the classics of the 18th and the first half of the 19th century centuries, 2 - based on works of the second half of the 19th century, 3 - based on works of the 20th century. The graduate selects only one of the questions and gives an answer to it, justifying his judgments by referring to the work (from memory). Questions of a problematic nature indicate a cognitive contradiction that the graduate must comprehend by proposing his own version of its resolution in the form of an essay.
Work of this type stimulates students’ independent thought and gives them the opportunity to express their attitude to the problems raised by the authors of the works.
The practice of pedagogical research has shown that performing work of this type requires a large measure of cognitive independence and to the greatest extent meets the specifics of literature as an art form and academic discipline, which sets as its goals the formation of a qualified reader with a developed aesthetic taste and the need for spiritual, moral and cultural development.
In the first and second parts, students are asked to complete tasks that include questions to a fragment of the text of works named in the mandatory minimum content of literary education. Unified State Examination tests in literature, in accordance with the requirements of the current Standard, must test the following knowledge and skills of graduates.
Knowledge:
- the content of the studied literary works;
- basic facts of the life and work of classical writers of the 19th-20th centuries,
- stages of creative evolution of classical writers;
- main literary methods, directions, trends, basic patterns of the historical and literary process;
- information about individual periods of its development;
- basic theoretical and literary concepts and terms.
- analyze and interpret a literary work using information on the history and theory of literature (artistic structure, themes, problems, moral pathos, system of images, features of composition, artistic time and space, figurative and expressive means of language, artistic detail);
- correlate the work being studied with the literary direction of the era;
- highlight the features of literary movements and movements when analyzing a work;
- determine the genre and generic specificity of a literary work;
- determine the main elements of the content and artistic structure of the studied works (themes and problems, heroes and events, artistic techniques, various types of tropes, etc.);
- compare literary works, as well as their various artistic, critical and scientific interpretations;
- identify author's position, characterize the features of the writer’s style.
- determining whether a literary (folklore) text belongs to a particular type and genre, creative method or literary direction(current), historical and literary period;
- analysis of the text, revealing the author's intention and various means of its implementation; determining the motives of the heroes’ actions, the essence of the conflict, etc.;
- identification artistic techniques and means of artistic representation, determining their role in revealing the ideological and thematic content of the work;
- independent search for an answer to a problematic question.
Part 1 relates to a fragment of an epic text or a fragment of a play and contains 7 short answer tasks (basic difficulty level). There are also 2 tasks with detailed answers ( higher level difficulties). Their designations are C1, C2.
Part 2 relates to the text of the lyric poem and contains 5 short answer tasks (basic difficulty level). There are also 2 tasks with a detailed answer (increased difficulty level). Their designation is SZ, C4.
The authors of the examination test in literature for the Unified State Exam suggested that “following the proposed algorithm of work allows students to identify the place and role of an episode (scene) in the overall structure of the work (analysis of a fragment), reveal the plot-compositional, figurative-thematic and stylistic features of the analyzed text, generalize their observations."
Part 3 tests how deeply and independently students are able to master a literary work and explain the complexities of the historical and literary process (these are tasks high level difficulties). This part of the work tests the ability to construct a coherent and meaningful speech statement on a given literary topic, formulated in the form of a question of a problematic nature. The graduate is asked 3 questions (C5.1-C5.3), covering the most important milestones of the national historical and literary process: on the literature of the 18th century, on the works of the first half of the 19th century, on the works of the second half of the 19th century, on the works of the 20th century. The graduate chooses one of the questions and gives an answer, justifying his judgment by referring to the work (from memory).
Part 3 contains 3 free-response tasks (of a high level of difficulty), of which the student needs to complete only one task of his own choice. Their designation in the work: C5.1; C5.2; C5.3.
Surprisingly, in order to score high scores on the Unified State Exam in literature, it is not enough just to be able to write well and have great amount books read. No, this is certainly important and necessary, but we must remember that the final exam in the form of the Unified State Exam has a clear structure, and the examiners have certain criteria by which they evaluate the work of eleventh-graders. No matter how creative and original you are, if your work does not meet the basic requirements of the task, then, alas, you will not get 100 points. Therefore, in this article we will reveal all the secrets and give you useful tips, by listening to which you can get a high result and enter the university of your dreams.
As already noted, graduates taking the literature exam simply need to know exactly how the Unified State Examination in literature is assessed. In fact, everything is very simple and not as scary as it seems at first glance.
When completing 8 and 15 tasks that require a detailed answer of 5-10 sentences, you must give a direct and concise answer to the question. we have on our website. Try not to deviate from the topic, do not use lengthy arguments, follow a simple scheme - thesis, evidence. Nothing overly complicated is required of you; it is important to carefully read the excerpt from the given work of art, analyze it and give a short but clear answer to the question, citing evidence from the text as an example. The criteria are:
- depth of judgments made
- persuasiveness of arguments
- following the norms of speech.
In total, for tasks 8 and 15 you can get 4 points for each (do not forget that the initial points you scored are translated into a hundred-point system, and even 1 mistake you make can cost 4 test points, so be careful).
Questions 9 and 16 require you to compare a given passage from a literary work with two other texts. you can look on the website. The most important thing here is a convincing justification for why you think the examples you gave are from works of art suitable and how exactly do you find them similar. Do not forget that you need to correctly indicate the names of the works and their authors. Criteria by which your answers will be assessed:
- inclusion of a work in a literary context
- persuasiveness of arguments
Since the exam is always a stressful situation for graduates, we advise you to think in advance about examples of works on various topics; it is more convenient to do this in a table. Divide it into specific topics, for example, war, unrequited love, etc. (you can take them from example KIMs), and select texts in which these problems occur. So at hour X it will be much easier for you, and you will be able to score the highest score for this task.
And finally, the last task is to write a long essay on one of the three proposed topics. you can look on the website. Here you should show:
- knowledge of literary text
- knowledge of literary terms
- literary outlook
The examiner will evaluate:
- depth of understanding of the topic
- the persuasiveness of the judgments given as arguments
- level of theoretical and literary knowledge
- validity of using the text of the work
- compositional integrity
- consistency of presentation
- following the norms of speech.
The only advice we can give you when writing this essay is to prepare for it. You must know all the assessment criteria and, following them, write a solid paper that will reflect the depth of your knowledge and the meaningfulness of the arguments you make.
What do you need to know?
Before you start preparing for the Unified State Exam in Literature, you should find out what the exam consists of, how much time is allotted for solving each task, what you need to read, and much more.
Let's start in order:
- How long does the Unified State Exam in Literature last?
Graduates are given 3 hours 55 minutes. Believe me, this time is enough to complete and check all tasks. But, despite this, from year to year many graduates lose precious points precisely because they simply do not have time to answer all the questions or rewrite the essay completely. Therefore, we strongly recommend that everyone who is preparing to take the Unified State Exam in Literature practice writing a KIM within the time allotted in the exam. Record your time and objectively evaluate whether you have time to write, check and rewrite all your essays. If not, then try to reconsider your time expenditure, maybe it is more convenient for you to start with the last task, and then return to the first part of the work. Determine which maximum amount minutes you can spend answering this or that question and try not to exceed this limit.
- How many tasks are there in the exam?
The Unified State Examination in literature consists of two parts. Part 1 is divided into 2 blocks - in the first you are required to answer 7 questions that test your knowledge of literary theory, and 2 questions with a detailed answer of 5-10 sentences. The entire first block is devoted to epic or dramatic birth literature. Block 2 concerns lyrics and also consists of 7 questions on theory and 2 questions, when answering which you must write a “small essay”.
Part 2 involves writing essays on one of three proposed topics. Each topic concerns a specific era (topic 1 - ancient Russian literature, literature of the 18th century or literature of the first half of the 19th century, topic 2 - second half of the 19th century, and topic 3 covers literary works written from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries). The essay must be at least 200 words.
- What to read?
To pass the Unified State Exam in literature, it is enough to read the entire list fiction, compiled specifically for this exam, the so-called, which you can read on the website.
But they must immediately warn you if during all school years you haven't read almost anything from school curriculum, then it is impossible to catch up in 1 year. But if, on the contrary, you have always treated the list responsibly school literature, then you won’t have to read anything additional.
- When will the results come?
Both the exam itself and the official website of the Unified State Examination will indicate the deadline for obtaining results. Don't worry, you won't be left in the dark. Try to remain calm, even if your literature results are delayed (this happens), you have already done everything in your power. And don’t be afraid, inspectors are not animals, they are just doing their job, and if you worked hard, your work will be appreciated.
How to prepare?
See previous paragraph. Indeed, starting preparation for the Unified State Exam in literature if you have not yet read most of the works is simply useless. If everything is in order with the list of literature you have read, then you should turn to the theory of literature. In the first part there are as many as 14 questions relating to literary terms (genre and type of literature, size of the poem, etc.). All these questions are absolutely simple, so it will be very disappointing to lose your points on them. And in order to prepare, you just need to look at the knowledge of which will be tested, understand and analyze them in detail, then you will never confuse iambic with trochee.
Well, there is only one way to prepare for tasks with a detailed answer - training. Write as soon as possible more essays, try to comply with all the requirements, carefully re-read your works (it is very important to be able to notice your own mistakes), and, of course, it will be very good if there is a person who will check your literary achievements at least at first (I think your school teacher should not refuse such a request).
How is the exam going?
Exactly the same as any other Unified State Exam. You come to the exam point, leaving all electronic devices at home beforehand (you’ve been preparing hard all year, and you don’t need them, right?), go to a certain audience and wait for the exam to start. When the X-hour arrives, the observer once again voices in detail the rules of the event. Next, you start filling out the forms (take this seriously, do not forget to double-check that you have filled out everything correctly, otherwise it will be a shame if your name is not on a brilliantly done, hundred-point job).
When all organizational issues ends, you will finally have your CMM and can start working on it. Read the assignments very carefully! In a stressful situation, you can easily confuse Tolstoy with Dostoevsky, so re-read not only your answers several times, but also your questions (even a perfectly written paper about the problem little man in Chekhov’s work will not be counted if the question was about Gogol). 3 hours and 55 minutes pass, you hand in all your completed forms and peace of mind go home.
How did you pass the Unified State Exam in Literature in 2017?
Some statistical data: in 2017, 43,548 graduates took the Unified State Exam in Literature, of which only 4.3% were unable to pass the threshold (minimum score) of 32 points. And 44% of those who took the exam were able to score more than 61 points. So, dear graduates, not everything is so scary.
Every eleventh grader taking literature once asked in despair: “What does it take to pass the Unified State Exam in literature?” But you can’t even imagine how simple the answer is - you need to prepare. You don’t need to assume that if the exam requires you not to have a specific, only correct answer to a question, but a detailed answer in the form of an essay, then you can let the preparation process take its course and trust your intuition, and when writing essays, give free rein to your imagination and simply speculate on the given question. topic. This approach will not lead you to success, you must clearly know what is required of you, your essays must comply with the “requested” format, and the literature knowledge in your head must be clearly structured. Ideally, you need to have a good understanding of a particular historical context in order to better understand the themes of a particular author's work. You must also be able to support your thoughts with quotes (which you need to know by heart), and this is only possible under one condition - you need to start preparing for the Unified State Exam in Literature in advance! Then you will not have any problems, and even if you are a very emotional person (as everyone becomes when taking an exam), you will be more calm and confident, and this is the key to an excellent result.
Interesting? Save it on your wall!Currently Unified State Exam time in literature was not included in the list of mandatory tests at the end of school. However, the results of this state exam are necessary in order to enter various specialties of Russian higher education institutions. educational institutions. This could be philology or journalism, television, as well as vocal and acting arts. Our article will tell you in detail what you need to know to pass the literature exam (Unified State Exam).
Exam Features
In 2017, there were active rumors that the structure of the final test in literature would be significantly transformed. But in September of the same year it became known that this testing had undergone a minimal number of changes. Nevertheless, in one of her interviews, Minister of Education Olga Vasilyeva said that next year another, more promising model of the state exam, developed by leading specialists from the Institute of Pedagogical Measurements, will come into force. Thus, test tasks were excluded from the CIMs. Now about literature? Let's figure it out together.
Why were the tests removed?
In the opinion of the developers, multiple-choice tasks for students do not pose any difficulty. They are just an extra element for assessment. In such tasks there is a huge probability of guessing the correct answer, and experts at the Institute of Pedagogical Measurements fundamentally disagree with this.
In addition, it became known that in the literature exam, graduates will no longer see open-ended questions and tasks where they must give an answer in the form of one word or a sequence of numbers. Thus, graduates lose the opportunity to score points for knowledge of literary terms. Therefore, C grade students will not be able to get away with “little loss” by passing one part of the exam. In 2018, graduates are expected to demonstrate the ability to express their own thoughts beautifully and clearly.
Test requirements. Essays
It is known that during the literature exam you need to write several essays. The developers of test materials have increased the minimum volume of the “main” essay. In previous years, this volume was at least 200 words, but already in 2018, the graduate will be required to compose a text 50 words more than in previous years.
Institute specialists have specified the requirements for mini-essays for next year. They must be at least 50 words long. Since 2018, this requirement applies not only to the issue of text analysis, but also to comparative tasks. A natural question arises for future graduates: “What is needed to pass the literature (Unified State Exam)?” Therefore, we will smoothly move on to recommendations.
How to pass the Unified State Exam in literature?
In order to get the most out of testing, firstly, you need to read all the literature that is required to pass the exam. Please note that reading will require a lot of time and effort. We will tell you what literature you need to read to pass the Unified State Exam a little later.
Secondly, there are a huge number of manuals on sale in bookstores that guarantee passing the Unified State Exam without much knowledge or effort. You can purchase all these collections, but you shouldn’t expect real success. However, if you solve the problems in these books, it will be much easier for you to answer the questions in the exam.
Thirdly, there is an opinion that an interested and competent teacher is able to teach his student everything necessary to pass the exam. Having asked themselves in advance how to pass the Unified State Exam in literature, students hire tutors.
Fourthly, among schoolchildren and students there are a huge number of rituals and signs that supposedly help them pass exams. In fact, nothing to do with real world These rituals do not exist. But by doing them, perhaps you will feel more confident in the exam.
Alumni Experience
We present to your attention the experience of students of the Faculty of Philology, who give recommendations and explain how to pass the Unified State Exam in Literature. As a rule, on September 1, eleventh graders go to the bookstore and buy a huge number of collections on this subject. Current students are advised to buy collections from previous years, since the structure of test materials does not actually change, and their price is much lower. Many perform tasks as often as some solve crossword puzzles. There are schoolchildren who lack the theoretical basis necessary to write essays. But they make plans where they write out theses. Over time, this becomes a habit that a person uses today while studying at the institute.
Note that many universities often enroll in preparation courses for the Unified State Exam in various subjects. Many people recommend attending these classes. As a rule, you need to attend lectures once a week, which last about two hours. There is a lot of work before the exam: you need to constantly write and read in order to come to class already prepared. In addition, they often come to the rescue school teachers on literature. Teachers share theoretical materials with graduates, as well as the experience of specialists who check exam papers. Thus, many students pass the exam with a hundred marks.
A few words about the list of fiction
As mentioned above, the list of literature to pass the Unified State Exam in literature is quite large. There is no point in publishing this list, since it is in every collection for passing the exam. In any case, you need to know ancient Russian literature, as well as texts written in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Need to know and understand school works Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Fet, Nekrasov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Ostrovsky, Tyutchev, Chekhov, Bunin, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Gorky, Yesenin, Pasternak, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Blok, Sholokhov, Bulgakov, Tvardovsky, Solzhenitsyn and other writers , the texts of which are included in the list of fiction studied in lessons from grades 5 to 11.
conclusions
At the beginning of this article there was a question about the difficulty of passing the exam. It is not easy to answer, since the concept of complexity is relative. For some children it is difficult to write essays, for others it is difficult to analyze artistic text. In any case, an exam is a test for which you need to prepare conscientiously in order to get the desired result.
Thanks to our article, you now know how to pass the Unified State Exam in literature and what you need to do to get a good result. Remember that teachers checking essays expect graduates to have a conscious understanding of the problem and a clear vision of the author’s position. Also, the certified person must be familiar with genres and literary terms. We wish you success!