Prepare for the Russian language test yourself. Is the first test the scariest? How to meet the allotted time and not mess up over trifles? Ways to pass the test successfully

For the first time in my life, I took the Russian language test on June 15, 2014. Higher education I have had this for a long time: when I entered, there were regular exams, not CT exams. At the university, at the Faculty of Journalism, I also studied the rules of Russian grammar and stylistics. But since during my work in the media my mistakes were corrected by proofreaders, the knowledge was completely erased from my memory.

In recent years, when I began to carry out copywriting orders, and then teach copywriting, the forgotten began to be missed. Innate literacy, i.e. Nature has not blessed me with good visual memory, so when checking my own and other people’s texts, I have to remember the rules from the textbook. A copywriter is his own proofreader, and students sometimes put commas anywhere and wait for reasonable comments. That’s why I decided to repeat the subject using the CT as a stimulus. And in addition to improving my writing skills, it was important for me to get the results of another experiment on independently organizing the educational process.

During my first attempts to fill out tests from previous years, I made from 5 to 10 errors: a typical figure for a high school student who did not specifically prepare for testing. But, unlike the average school student, I was sure: to prepare well for the exam for short term is quite real. The experiment was a success: I passed with 100 points.

What is a “short period” for preparing for the Russian CT?

The manual I used to prepare for the CT

I decided that I would take the CT, and for the first time I opened the test preparation guide on April 26, 2014. Last days April and all of May I studied no more than 4 hours a week. It took a little more than a month to read, without stopping at the exercises, “Manual for preparing for mandatory centralized testing” by O. Gorbatsevich, T. Ratko and T. Bodarenko and perform several tests for the previous year. At the end of May, I bought an additional collection of tests for 2008-2012 and from June 1 to June 14 I studied for 3 hours a day, dealing in detail with the most difficult topics and solving tests for different years.
Thus, the total number of hours devoted exclusively to preparation for the DT was about 60; in addition, travel time in transport was sometimes used. All this time I continued to work and fulfill my household duties.

In what ways was it easier for me than for applicants?

If you compare me with a school graduate, then I benefited from the fact that I was not burdened with final exams. During the same period, schoolchildren had only 2-3 days to escape from exam subjects and focus all their attention on the DT. Compared to the average “adult” applicant, I benefited from the fact that I had a free work schedule and an equal division of household chores with my husband: this meant that I could choose the most productive time to prepare for tests. In addition, I took one test, not three.
Others must adapt to their circumstances. This means, most likely, that for repetition it will take more calendar days. On the other hand, if you start preparing in advance, then your knowledge will be more durable. Then the final repetition before testing may take only a few hours.

In what ways was it more difficult for me than for applicants?

They say that with age, the tenacity of memory weakens, and I partly believe this. In addition, I did not have Russian language lessons at school and preparation for the school exam in the same subject. The latter circumstance has both pros and cons. Because school assignments in the subject also allow you to consolidate in your memory the topics presented at the CT.

I had no consulting teachers, no electives, no tutors, and no courses for applicants. Nobody organized my educational process. Although the latter circumstance did not bother me, because it was the technologies of self-organization that I tested on myself.

What can you use from my experience of preparing for the CT?

These are the things that seem to me to be commonly used.

1. Maximum program and optimal program
   For a test whose results are assessed in points, it is easy to define your tasks in the same units. I had two planks. I wanted to take the maximum: precisely so that I could talk about this result in confirmation of the possibilities of rational self-education. But I consider the goal “100 points and no less” to be counterproductive. In any business there is an element of chance, so, I decided, it was up to me to pass the test with no less than 90 points. In this case, I will be able to share my experience. If it is less, then testing will remain my personal experiment. The maximum program, perhaps, can be the same for everyone: if someone passes the CT with a 100, then you can too. The problem with the optimum. Applicants do not know it as a pragmatically valuable value, because the competition for admission to a specific university cannot be predicted in advance. I think there is no point in practicing forecasts. The optimum is the score that you yourself will consider an achievement: it simply must be higher than your “usual level.”
2. Motivation
   I was motivated by the desire to write this text and then invite those interested to a course on self-organization in their studies. After all, I allowed myself to do this only when successful completion test. But besides this goal, which was only indirectly related to repeating the school curriculum, there was also a simple everyday benefit from preparing for the CT. I write custom texts all the time, as well as correct the mistakes of novice copywriters. And constantly check textbooks while working - extra waste time. As I assume, applicants want to enroll very strongly, and this desire can motivate efforts to prepare for the CT. But it’s impossible to predict in advance exactly what score will be enough for admission, and this is discouraging. Maybe if we more clearly link preparation for tests with acquiring practical literacy, the desire to understand the rules will be greater? True, I don’t know what everyday problems a test in mathematics or chemistry can be associated with, but I assume that if you find out in advance how a specific science is used in a specific future profession, then meaning can be found in composing chemical equations. Among the factors of motivation, scientists also highlight procedural and substantive ones, emphasizing their importance. In other words, to work with enthusiasm, you need to be inspired not only by future results, but also by the work process itself. I didn’t have any problems with this: I find it interesting to understand how the language works. If there is no such curiosity, and there is still enough time for preparation, you can try to awaken a keen interest in linguistics. If it didn’t work out, well, increase external incentives, come up with additional rewards for studying.
3. Continuous superficial repetition and in-depth study of difficult sections
   As I already said, at first I just slowly read the manual for preparing for the CT. And while reading, I noted which sections seemed confusing and unclear to me. While doing tests at the same time, I noticed questions that I couldn’t answer confidently. The first candidates for a second repetition and study of additional sources were topics that were considered complex both when answering questions and during the reading of the manual. In second place is something that was not easy to understand when reading. But the “phonetics” section was enough to re-read (and write down the number of letters and sounds) once. It is somehow self-sufficient, and schoolchildren make the fewest mistakes in it.
4. Repetition sequence
   Russian (and Belarusian for those who use it regularly) are perhaps the most practical subjects in the school curriculum. After all, we all write some texts, and writing them correctly is a simple rule of decency. Therefore, all conscious applicants see the value of the “spelling” and “punctuation” sections. But the sections “morphology”, “word formation” and “syntax” at first glance are far from the tasks of everyday life. But the composition of the word and the part of speech it belongs to directly determine its spelling, and the placement of punctuation marks directly depends on the structure of the sentence. Therefore, it’s worth starting with the “impractical” sections and understanding them as thoroughly as possible. And spelling will grow on the basis of this knowledge almost without effort.
5. Sources for review
   The manual I used is considered by tutors to be one of the best, but it cannot be the only one. To fully understand complex topics, alternative sources are needed. There are many of them on the Internet, it is important to be able to choose reliable ones. And if you don’t know how, learn.
6. Mnemonics
   On the VKontakte network there is a popular group “Memories of the Russian Language”. One or two such didactic works have been firmly etched in my memory since school: we will classify them as the second conjugation without a doubt... By the way, do you remember that in this rhyme there are not all verbs not in -it that belong to the second conjugation? It does not include verbs with stressed endings. plural third person, for example, “burn.” What I mean is that you should not replace understanding of the issue with mnemonics. Although there are things that really just need to be remembered, and here mnemonics help us. For the most confusing rules, I drew “rule cards” (according to the method outlined in the book by Vasilyeva E.E. and Vasilyev V.Yu. “Supermemory, or how to remember in order to remember”), to memorize lists (for example, the ranks of pronouns by meaning ) used the “Loki” technique (binding a word to a familiar place). I wrote out vocabulary words with double consonants on several sheets of paper and hung them on the door; those difficult to pronounce, I recorded them on a tape recorder and listened to them in transport. To test my memorization, I recruited my daughter several times to give me a vocabulary dictation. That seems to be all.
7. Self-test
   When filling out the “training” tests, I, of course, checked the results of the completion. Moreover, I didn’t check the answers with the answers during the first check. And almost every time I myself found 1-2 mistakes “due to inattention.”
   For some reason I think that most people make such mistakes. If I had more time to prepare, I would definitely include separate exercises for training attention in the program. But a simple self-test is quite effective. By the way, in my real exam test I found the missing mark during self-test.
   I was very surprised watching my colleagues who were taking the CT test: almost everyone who left before me did not re-read their work at all. Why? After all, correct corrections here are guaranteed to increase your score!
8. Audience Strategies
   They ask you to arrive for testing half an hour in advance, but the envelopes with tests are opened exactly at 11. The meaning of sitting at a desk for half an hour is not very clear. There is enough time for the test even under exam stress, and most of the test takers left long before the final bell. Phones really need to be handed over to the cloakroom, all handbags, papers and even glasses cases are collected and generally kept on guard at all times. Can't be written off.
   But you can write comments on the questions. I wrote to two of my fourth version of the test at once. There was a grammatical error in the wording of one of the questions, the second (based on text analysis) was, in my opinion, incorrectly formulated. But whether my last remark was taken into account or my guesses in the test form simply coincided with what the authors had in mind remained a mystery to me. One thing is clear: it is safe to write comments on tests; this does not affect the assigned score. Most likely, these comments do not correlate with the authorship of the form, because they asked to write out their thoughts “shortly in order to include them in the protocol” and did not require a signature.
9. After testing
   I didn’t want to “take the test and forget” and after a few days I realized the need for regular repetition. Well-chosen cells on a testing form do not yet mean perfect literacy or expert knowledge of even a school course.
   I firmly remember the rules that are used in almost every text: punctuation for homogeneous parts of a sentence, endings of verbs and nouns, writing frequently used vocabulary words. For the rest, you have to periodically refer to dictionaries and reference books. I got into the habit of clarifying doubtful spelling points after completing work on each article, and installed an application for spaced repetition on my smartphone - so I still don’t have to flip through dictionaries too often.
   The differences between conjunctions and allied words, types of circumstances and categories of pronouns are gradually forgotten. But my “rule cards” are in a safe place, so that the material in my memory can now be renewed not in a month and a half, but in a day. And this makes me happy: my experience may be useful to others more than once.

How self-organization andlearningskills?

In high school in American schools and in the first years of universities and colleges, many students take courses in learning skills and study skills. We don’t have such practice, so I studied this subject on my own. These are general planning and time management skills, as well as the ability to extract the main thing from a text (by the way, helps in text analysis tasks), take notes, work in a group and individually, memorize different types information. Before the experiment on myself, I had already conducted several motivational groups on self-organization in everyday life, and one on managing personal projects in any area: some self-organization skills relate to studying in the same way as to regular menu planning.

So here are the study skills that were used in preparation.

1. Time planning, scheduling
   All the preparation was not left until the last day, and that’s good. It is possible to remember a large amount of information in a day with developed RAM, but learning to apply the rules is unlikely.
2. Work Sequence Planning
   The sections in the textbooks are not in the most convenient order. But if you’ve already created Gantt charts a couple of times to properly renovate a room or fill out a website, then it’s easier to figure out the sequence of topics you personally need to repeat.
3. Critical thinking
   This is also one of the learning skills that needs to be applied specifically to the selection of information sources. The Internet has both reliable resources specifically for self-study, and pages that look quite convincing, but only partially reflect the necessary data. If you do not distinguish the first from the second, you may miss important points.
4. Correct self-learning procedures
   On any specialized resource for preparing for the CT, you will find a lot of advice, the meaning of which is obvious. Write down the main thing on paper, use different senses, read more... The devil is in the details: how exactly to write down this “important” so that it remains not only on paper, what is worth mentioning, and what is better to practice once again on tests, which texts are useful “read more”, in solving what problems this reading can help. It is for these procedures that Americans take learning skills courses.
5. Periodic Maintenance Processes
   Standard procedures that should be followed so as not to lose, in this case, the acquired knowledge. These procedures are also necessary during the study process, especially over a long period of time. Well, now they still need to be adapted to the situation of real use of knowledge.

Is it possible to learn from my experience in preparing for the CT?

I think it's possible. And I personally find it more interesting that it is useful not so much for filling out test forms, but for improving practical literacy. After all, this is a skill that will be needed throughout your life. And along with it, you can naturally learn general study skills, those very learning skills with which no exam is scary.

This idea formed the basis of a practical literacy course, which I now suggest that any high school student or adult take individually. The general route is similar: determine what you don’t know, choose from the entire body of knowledge exactly what you need - and consistently study, using the tools of effective self-education. Get to know the program and come!
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How to pass the Russian language test with 100 points? Personal experience

Testing Center of the Ministry of Education Russian Federation

Russian language

OPTIONS AND ANSWERS for centralized testing

Test Preparation Guide

BBK 74.202.5 UDC 37L M20

Tests, Russian language and class. Options and answers for centralized testing - M.: Testing Center of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 2003.

Collection “Tests” (options and answers from centralized testing in 2003) - the book presents samples of tests used during centralized testing in 2003 in the Russian language and the Russian language of increased complexity. The tests are compiled in accordance with the minimum content requirements of the draft educational standard. Answers for all presented tests are provided. The structure of the tests is given.

The collection is intended for self-preparation of graduates of general education institutions for the final certification and entrance exams to universities, as well as to help teachers and methodologists who use the test method of knowledge control in their work.

ISBN 5-94635-129-Х

© Testing Center of the Russian Defense Ministry, 2003

Commissioned on August 28, 2003. Volume 7.75 p.l. Circulation 70,000 copies. Order 1370.

Printed at the State Enterprise "Zagorsk Printing House" 141300, Moscow region, Sergiev Posad, Krasnoy Armii Ave., 212B

Tel. 547-60-60, 4-25-70, fax547-60-60

INTRODUCTION

The most important feature characterizing Russian education recent years, is an attempt to use modern technologies to assess students' educational achievements. For this purpose, the mechanisms of centralized testing and the unified state exam are used.

Objective assessment of educational achievements is carried out, as a rule, by standardized procedures, during which all students are in the same (standard) conditions and use measuring materials (tests) that have approximately the same properties. This standardized procedure for assessing educational achievements is called testing.

A correctly composed test is a set of balanced test items. The number of tasks in the test in various sections should be such as to proportionally reflect the main content of the subject. The use of test items of different difficulties should ensure equal difficulty of the different test options.

The development of modern pedagogical tests is only possible if there is a large number of test items, the properties of which are determined before the grades are assigned (scaling of results).

Centralized testing assesses the level of preparedness of students on a 100-point scale, taking into account the difficulty and differentiating power of correctly and incorrectly completed tasks.

When assessing educational achievements, the Testing Center uses quite complex mathematical models. You can familiarize yourself with them in the special literature of the Testing Center.

The student being tested must know that the number of tasks he completes correctly does not determine his test score. The difficulties of correctly and incorrectly completed tasks can significantly affect the assessment of test results.

The correspondence between the number of correctly completed tasks and the test score is presented in the diagram at the end of the collection, which was obtained as a result of statistical processing of the results of centralized testing in 2003. The average score for Russia is assumed to be 50.

The test materials and results presented in the collection can be used as some guidelines for preparing for centralized testing in 2004.

The practical use of modern tests of educational achievements gives students the opportunity to objectively assess the level of their knowledge, as well as determine their place (rating) among the many Russian students who have undergone centralized testing. This service is in increasing demand. In 2003, about one and a half million graduates participated in centralized testing. Over half of Russian state universities accept the results of centralized testing as assessments of entrance examinations. Tens of thousands of applicants who submitted centralized testing certificates to the admissions committees are annually enrolled in state universities in Russia.

Technology and methods of centralized testing are widely used when conducting the unified state exam in Russia.

Structure of the Russian language test Developers: Issers O.S., KuzminaNA., Llybina A.T.

Editor: methodologist of the Russian Language Testing Center of the Russian Ministry of Defense Antonova O.Yu.

I. Spelling

1. Spelling of unstressed vowels in roots (checked and alternating).

2. Spelling of unchecked vowels in the root of a word.

3. Vowels -О-/-Ё- after sibilants and -Ц- in roots, suffixes and endings,

4. Vowels -E-/-I- in suffixes and endings of adjectives and verbs.

5. Spelling of unstressed case endings of nouns.

6. Spelling of prefixes pre-/pri-.

7. Spelling -Y- after consonant prefixes and after hissing i-Ts-

8. -Н- and -НН- in full forms of adjectives, participles and derived nouns.

9. Differentiation of spelling-Н- and -НН- in full and short forms of adjectives, participles, adverbs.

10. Unpronounceable consonants.

11. Spelling of voiced and voiceless consonants.

12. Double consonants.

13. Spelling of participle suffixes.

14. Spelling -NOT-s various parts speech.

15. Spelling -NOT- and -NOR-based on semantic differentiation.

16. Hyphenation of nouns, adjectives and adverbs.

17. Integrated and separate writing of adjectives and adverbs.

18. Spelling of derivative prepositions.

19. Dividing -b- and -b-.

20. -b-after hissing ones.

II. Punctuation

1. Dash in a simple sentence.

2. Punctuation marks for the conjunction And in the simple and complex sentence.

3. Punctuation marks for homogeneous parts of a sentence.

4. Punctuation when isolating minor members of a sentence.

5. Demarcation introductory words and members of the proposal. Punctuation marks when isolating introductory words and introductory constructions.

6. Punctuation marks for the conjunction HOW.

7. Punctuation marks in complex and complex sentences.

8. Dash and colon in non-union and complex sentences and with homogeneous members with a generalizing word.

9. Punctuation marks in all types of complex sentences.

10. Standards for formatting someone else's speech. Punctuation marks for direct speech and quotations.

III. Speech culture and stylistics

1. Orthoepic norms.

2. Norms of lexical compatibility.

3. The meaning of the word.

4. Grammar rules.

1. Russian literary language and his styles. Language indicators of styles.

2. Types of texts.

V. General information about the language. Russian language system

1. Basic concepts of morphology.

2. Basic concepts of syntax.

Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation Testing Center

Russian language test No. 1

Instructions for students

The test consists of parts A and B. It takes 100 minutes to complete. We recommend completing the tasks in order. If the task cannot be completed immediately, move on to the next one. If you have time, go back to the tasks you missed.

Each task may have 1,2 or more correct answers. Mark the numbers of the selected answers in the answer form under the number of the task you completed.

A1. -O- is written
1) tanned
3) absorb
A2. -A- is written
1) charm		4) size
	sullen	5) engraving
	put together
A3. -Yo- is written
			lit a fire
	ts_cat (hooves)
A4. -I- is written
1) jump up			dozing cat
2) if you send...
3) glued

A5. -E- is written in both cases

1) in the thorny network of branches

2) in a garden blooming in spring; for her mother_

3) in front of a blooming rose; in the flickering light

4) roll; shine in white_

5) he will hold out; bushes wine_

A7. -ы- is written

1) notorious

2) super_intuition

3) pre-jule

4) Tsgansky

A8. -N- is written in both cases

1) karmay; laden

2) windy; vareik

3) diffuse; ice cream

4) traditional; be friends ik

A9. -NN- is written in both cases

1) A gilded bow and a large, bronze-forged three-piece guitar appeared.

2) The not-yet-cowed grass spreads from the half-hearted heat, unbearable for a living creature.

3) The aspirations of the best representatives of modern youth are always pure and lofty.

4) The girl went down to the Volga to get some water, but when she looked at the unusually transparent patterned ice, she was enchanted by this beauty: in front of her a frozen garden shimmered with sparkles of the sun

	flowers and trees.
A10. Consonant missing
	publicity	4) honor
	viceroy	5) Ren_Genovsky
	dermatine
All. The letter denoting a voiceless consonant is written
1) delicious party		4) woodworking
	refined sugar_	5) high presti_
	small fish
A12. The double consonant is written
	Hypothesis	4) cavalry
	ventilate	5) symmetrically
	passive
A13. -U(-Yu) - written
	rumbling	4) self-adhesive (wallpaper)
2) (dogs) la t		5) unabated
3) struggling

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1. Familiarize yourself with the test program and make a general preparation plan.

The first thing you need to do is make a plan to prepare for classes. Your plan should cover all the topics covered in the DH. You can get acquainted with them in the document from RIKZ “Test specification in the academic subject “Russian language” for centralized testing”. All topics and sections that are mentioned there are used when compiling tests. There is also helpful information about the structure of the test: what percentage of the total is this or that section of the Russian language. So, spelling takes up as much as 32.5%! And this is already more than the threshold score. Therefore, she will need to devote more attention. Look through the collections of CTs from past years. Pay attention to how the tasks change from year to year: in most cases, according to my observations, it’s just the wording, the configuration of the test. Of course, you will not be able to predict what exactly you will come across during the testing itself, but this way you will understand what types of tasks you may encounter on a particular topic.

Determine for yourself how many hours/days a week you will devote specifically to the Russian language. It is advisable that this, of course, not be an hour a week. But don’t push yourself too hard. Adequately assess your capabilities. It’s unlikely that your enthusiasm and motivation will be enough, and there won’t be enough time for daily classes. Provided you work with concentration (you can ask your family to ensure that no one distracts you during these hours of study, as if you were studying with a tutor), I think 1.5-2 hours / three times a week will be enough for you. On the eve of delivery (in April-May) you can increase the volume. But, no matter how much you strive for results, set aside at least one day a week for proper rest.

2. Hang out in a bookstore for an hour or two. Get good benefits.

Nowadays there are a great many manuals for preparing for the CT in Russian. How can you choose from all this variety what will really be useful? I would recommend purchasing the following manuals:

• Russian language. CT for 60 lessons. They already bring together theory and tests in the form of lessons. The language is easy to understand, so this is exactly what you need for independent work. Examples of test tasks are given, but often they are not enough.

In order to study a particular topic well, use...

• Thematic simulator. There, test tasks are grouped by topic. I would recommend immediately, when passing/repeating a topic, to consolidate what you have learned on these test tasks. Don’t rush to decide on all the options right away. Later, when you work with full-fledged options, you will probably make mistakes. You can also work out these mistakes with the help of a thematic simulator.

• Russian language. Complete collection of tests. There are as many as 50 options there. You will need it in the last months of preparation, when you have already completed everything according to schedule. Then the time will come for “deciding”, that is, you will get better at it. After this, you will really be able to perform many simple tasks “automatically”. This is good because it will give you time to tinker and think hard about something more complex.

• Collections of tests from recent years.

3. If you turn to the Internet, use reputable sources.

More than once I heard children give incorrect answers in class. When asked why they made this mistake, they answered: “I looked on the Internet, it was written there.” I don't want to say that everything is completely wrong there. But there are sites that you should trust, and there are some answers to mail.ru, where any poor student can register under the nickname of an excellent student and give advice. It’s a dubious idea to rely on such opinions, isn’t it? Here are some sources that I would advise you to use: gramata.ru; "Handbook of Spelling, Pronunciation and Literary Editing" Rosenthal D.E. and etc.

4. Start your repetition with the basics. Move from simple to complex.

Perhaps when you first open a typical version of the DH, you will be overcome with trembling. You may feel scared because of how much you have forgotten and don’t remember. But don't be afraid of it. Yes, the CT version contains everything that you learned over the course of eleven whole years of schooling. But this is more than possible to repeat in a short time. One of my students and I prepared for testing for only 3 months. And he received a result of as much as 85 points! He worked hard for this result. It's not easy, you'll have to work hard. But if you put in enough effort and diligence, everything will work out! Start with simple rules, "warm up your brain." Slowly increase the pace. Move from simple to complex, gradually. Over time, you will reach the point where you will be able to solve the entire option. By the way, remember this same advice during the testing itself: do not stay too long on a task that causes difficulty. Remember, your time is very limited. First, do everything you know for sure, and then move on to what you need to think about.

5. Immediately practice the theory on practical tasks.

"Learned and practiced. Theory-test. Learned and practiced. Theory-test." This should be your mantra. There's no point in memorizing a rule if you don't know how to use it in practice. Here the thematic simulator, which I already mentioned above, will come to your aid, as well as collections in which tests are grouped by topic. There's nothing new here, but it's the most effective method assimilation, and this is what we use in preparation courses for the DT at the Educational Center "Knowledge Factory".

6. Once you practice the rule once, don’t forget it. Repetition is the mother of learning.

It is good to follow the previous point, but this is not quite enough. Memory has the ability to forget information that is not used for a long time. Therefore, when you work on new topic, allocate at least 10-15 minutes in class to solve a couple of tasks of the material already covered. Always work on your mistakes! Errors are kind of bells that signal to you that you know a little worse. Make sure that next time you complete a similar task correctly.

7. Feel the atmosphere. Go to rehearsal testing. Preferably all 3 times.

Rehearsal testing at universities is carried out three times a year. There you will be able to feel the whole atmosphere, as well as identify gaps in knowledge, because there will be no reference materials or tips at hand. After RT you will be able to adjust the course of your preparation. On the RIKZ website in the “RT” section you can find the dates for the RT in the 2016/2017 academic years. Put it in your calendar and go see them. It's really good workout. And nerves too.

8. Follow the release of demo versions of tests and consultations from RIKZ.

These tasks are from the holy of holies, from where all exam versions of the CT are compiled. It definitely wouldn’t hurt to take them apart. Each test is accompanied by a detailed commentary from the compilers.

9. Get a couple of lessons from a professional the day before.

It may also be that some tasks, when prepared independently, will still remain misunderstood. Some material is really very difficult to analyze on your own. Under no circumstances should you leave it unprocessed. In this case, you can turn to a tutor for help for a couple of lessons. Clearly formulate the questions, write down examples of tasks that cause you the most difficulty, and first voice them to the teacher. This way, he will be able to prepare in advance to explain exactly what you need, and if you want, he will be able to diagnose your general readiness for DT and give advice on what you should pay attention to first.

10. Concentrate on the goal and don't let laziness win. Keep to the schedule.

Yes, a whole year of diligent preparation can exhaust anyone. But don't forget why you're doing it. Don’t let your preparation take its course, otherwise everything you did before will be in vain. But you don’t want that, do you?

P.S. Believe in yourself, but adequately assess your capabilities.

It will take a lot of willpower to comply with all the points. Some people may simply not be able to organize themselves. And that's okay. Don’t blame yourself, because it seems to you that you are “already”, but I say “only” in the eleventh grade. And there is no need to be ashamed of the fact that you still need help. If your family’s financial situation allows it, still contact a professional. Tutors are also good because they also serve as “kickers”: they won’t let you shirk your classes and will keep your preparation for exams in good shape. For most, this is the best option. Believe in yourself, but if you still doubt it, don’t take risks, hire a professional. Ours will help you with this, where there is a convenient filter for finding a tutor in your area at a price that suits your parents.
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ABOUT CENTRALIZED TESTING

Is paper provided for working notes (draft paper)?

During centralized testing for all exams in educational institutions, paper for working notes is issued to applicants in the required quantity.

Will a tenth grader be able to pass the CT?

No. A tenth grader does not have the right to participate in centralized testing.

Is it possible to pass the CT without a passport by presenting a notarized copy?

No. During testing, the applicant must have an original identification document (passport, residence permit, refugee certificate).

Is it possible to go to the toilet during CT?

Yes. You are taken to the toilet room. However, the output is a minus of your time allotted for testing.

Does an applicant have the right to make comments (during centralized testing) on ​​the content of the tests?

Applicants' comments on the content of pedagogical tests are included in the protocol for conducting centralized testing in the classroom, indicating the number of the pedagogical test version, the number of the task and the content of the comment (see Chapter 7, paragraph 58 of the Regulations on DT).

Questions from applicants regarding the content of pedagogical tests are not considered in the classroom.

In what language is centralized testing on the history of Belarus conducted?

Applicants have the right to take specialized entrance tests in Belarusian or Russian (optional).

Applicants who have not studied the history of Belarus can take a test in world history of modern times, except for the profile (direction) of the specialty “history” (clause 16, chapter 3 of the Rules for Admission to Universities).

Do half-correct answers count in Russian?
Yes. In the CT for the Russian language, both completely correct and half correct answers are counted. This applies only (!) to tasks from part “A”.
For a correct answer, the applicant receives 100% of the point, for a half-correct answer - 20%.
Tasks where one extra answer is marked or one necessary answer is not marked are considered half-correct.
Examples:
The correct answers are 2.4. The applicant noted 1,2,4. This is a semi-correct answer, because... there is one error in it: one extra answer is marked (1).
The correct answers are 1,2,4. The applicant noted 1.4. This is a semi-correct answer, because... there is one error in it: one required answer (2) is not marked.
The correct answers are 1,2,4. The applicant marked 2. This is an incorrect answer, because there are two errors in it: two required answers (1 and 4) are not marked.
The correct answers are 1,2,4. The applicant noted 1,3,4. This is the wrong answer because... there are two errors in it: the required answer is not marked (2) and an extra answer is marked (3).
Answers to tasks from part "B" can only be correct or incorrect. If at least one mistake is made in the answer from part “B” (for example, A2B2B3G4 is written instead of A1B2B3G4), such an answer is considered completely incorrect. The same goes for answers with spelling errors (for example, an incorrect suffix instead of a correct suffix).

How is a question that has more than one correct answer scored? (1) if not all correct answer options are given; 2) if correct and incorrect answers are given?)
You probably mean the partially correct answers that we use in tests in Russian and Belarusian languages. Even if you were not able to determine all the correct answers for a specific task, computer program takes them into account. But you will receive a score slightly lower than if you chose all the correct answer options. The same is true if you chose the correct and incorrect answers.

How are CT scores in the Russian language calculated?
Each task has a difficulty coefficient. This coefficient is determined not by the test compilers, but by the applicants. If many applicants completed the task, it has a low difficulty coefficient, and vice versa, tasks that only a small number of applicants managed to complete correctly have a high difficulty coefficient.
Therefore, people with the same number of correctly completed tasks may have different scores. If a person makes mistakes in simple tasks, but completes complex ones correctly, he receives more points.

If an answer in Part B contains a spelling error, will it be counted?
No. The answer (word or phrase) is given in the form (gender, number, case) determined by the condition test task, and in the language chosen for the exam. Spelling errors in the answer are unacceptable.

8.06.2016 Bovtrukevich I.M., tutor Archive (2016)

Since there are no tactical or fundamentally important changes in the conduct of the CT-2018 relative to 2017, these recommendations are absolutely relevant for this year’s applicants.

Applicants will write the first test in 2018 in one of the state languages: Belarusian and Russian - to choose from, respectively. Because the , then I will talk mainly about him.

Video blog of Russian language tutor I. M. Bovtrukevich -.

For those. who is interested: see our about the CT of one of the past years in Russian.

I’ll say right away from my own many years of experience that every year it is during the first CT test that applicants experience the highest level of nervous tension. Perhaps this is because he is the first of those real ones who will no longer be able to retake. Or perhaps because their internal state still corresponds to the phrase “from the ship to the ball,” since only a day or two will pass after the prom. By the way, this issue has already been discussed in the media for many years, but the Ministry of Education, in spite of everything, draws up the CT schedule in such a way that after school exams and graduation the children have almost no time to review the material. Probably, officials have good reasons for this, so let’s take this fact as a given and move on to the essence of this material, namely, recommendations.

What time and what clothes should you arrive at the testing point? What can you take with you?

1. The night before, check the weather forecast to avoid wearing too warm clothes or, conversely, freezing in the classroom. You may need an umbrella while traveling.

2. Check again whether you have already collected everything (passport or refugee ID//certificate issued in case of loss or theft of a passport; two writing(!) gel pens with black ink; pass - into Russian(!), and not in mathematics or physics, for example; optional - water in a transparent half-liter bottle, but without a label).

3. Have breakfast with what you usually eat in the morning and what your stomach is used to. You can eat something sweet the night before, for example, chocolate, to stimulate brain function.

4. Don't take any sedative! Otherwise, all your annual preparation for the CT may be leveled: during the exam you will want to sleep rather than work productively.

5. Calculate the route to the testing point. To do this, look at the schedule public transport or tell your parents what time you will need to be brought to the doors of the educational institution by car.

It is advisable to be there at 10-15 - 10-30. I don’t recommend coming earlier: you’ll just get tired of waiting for the moment when you get into the classroom and can sit down. Your main desire will not be to write a test for the maximum score, but to finally relax!

6. You can't be late! Remember: sometimes entry into the buildings where CT is held may be closed at 10:45, and at 11:00 you will not be allowed into the classroom under any pretext.

7. Make sure that you know exactly the address and which building of the university or college (testing point) you should come to.

Do not confuse passes, for example, for Russian and other academic subjects that you will also take at the CT (you can take them in different places).

8. Don't take risks! Leave all your electronic gadgets and phones at home.

In past years, there were quite a few cases when applicants were kicked out of classrooms only because a random call from friends or relatives at the time of writing the test revealed the presence of the device as such. And you, being worried and worried, may simply forget to turn it off.

9. Don't turn around, don't pay attention to your neighbors! Mentally put a mirror cap on yourself and become as if deaf for these 2 hours!

This is not a school! No mutual assistance will do here! Everyone only for themselves! You and your parents have invested so much work, nerves and money in preparing for the CT that it would be a crime if, while distracted by helping a neighbor or some random conversation, you get a reprimand or, God forbid, you are removed from the audience because of something - a careless applicant who came to play a guessing game.

Remember that being removed from the classroom will disqualify you from enrolling in 2018!

Please note: in 2017, only from the audience 31 people were removed, in 2016 - 14, in 2015 - 11, in 2014 - 25.

10. If you feel unwell on the day of the test (fever, diarrhea, etc.), do not take risks! Call a doctor at home or go to a clinic so that you have an official document confirming the fact of the disease.

Remember!

• You will be able to retake only 1 subject.
• Registering for testing on a reserve day is not so easy: you must simply have reinforced concrete reason, confirmed by the same official certificate discussed above.

Several years ago, I was contacted by the father of an applicant who missed the test on the main day due to the death of a loved one. Then RIKZ refused to register him for participation in testing on the reserve day...

About the time

Only 120 minutes are allotted to complete 40 language tasks, i.e. 2 astronomical hours. During this time, the applicant must fill out his data on the answer form, complete all test tasks, write down the answers first in a draft, and then transfer them to the form. Not much time.

1. I recommend tracking it yourself. Despite the fact that several years ago the ministry made and successfully implemented the decision to hang a wall clock in every classroom where CT is held, I recommend having your own. Which?

• Serviceable and showing right time— it’s better to check and set the exact values ​​the night before.
• Mechanical - so as not to arouse suspicion among the present organizers.
• Wrist - so that at any moment you can count down the minutes until the end of the test, without spinning around and without attracting unnecessary attention.

2. In most cases, applicants begin taking the test much later than the required 11 o’clock.

Most often they start at 11-20 - 11-40. Therefore, be sure to check with the teachers present exactly what time you will have to submit your answer form in order to count 2 hours, subtracting at least 15 minutes from this value to transfer the answers from the draft to the form.

Those. If you start work at 11:40, that means you will have to turn in the form at 1:40. Therefore, you must stop completing your tasks at a maximum of 13-25, so that in the remaining 15 minutes you have time to transfer the answers to the form.

Record your time and calmly get to work. In this case, you will not jump nervously every time the observers announce the time remaining before submitting the forms.

On the tactics of completing test tasks in the Russian language

The key word is CAREFUL!

1. CAREFULLY, almost speaking out loud, read the CONDITIONS of each task! Literally drive them into your head!

This is the most important recommendation, since applicants often give “the opposite” answers. Those. for example, instead of rows where “E” is written in place of all gaps, rows where “O” is written are indicated. And they lose points, but from a spelling point of view, they insert the letters in the words correctly!

It’s hard to imagine a more offensive situation!

2. When completing the first 12 tasks, first of all, determine the part of speech for each word in the series! NECESSARILY! Since each of them has its own rule. If you do not define the part of speech, you may use someone else's rule and make a mistake.

For example, in a task with the condition “NN is written in place of all gaps in the rows”:

• person NN oh difficult(this is an adverb, there are as many “N” written in it as there are in the adjective that produces it “person” NN y").
• organizing meeting n about students(This short form passive participle, in which one “N” is always written).

Or in a task with the condition “Words are written through a hyphen:”

• to do (how?) In my (this is an adverb that contains the prefix By- and suffix -oh, on the basis of which it is written with a hyphen).
• walked In my ways(walked along the path ( whose?) to my is a pronoun that with a preposition By written separately).

Why? Because you need to read it extremely carefully in order to correctly complete tasks A28 - A30 and B1 - B5B. At the beginning of the exam you still have a lot of strength and good opportunity concentrate before people start to disturb you by handing in their forms and leaving the classroom (this begins to happen 5-10 minutes after the start).

Task A 28 It does not test the applicant’s knowledge of any rules of the Russian language, but rather his attentiveness and ability to build logical chains.

So, in order to answer correctly, first of all you need to carefully read the conditions of the task:

• indicate the statements that correspond content of the text
• indicate the statements that do not correspond content of the text
• indicate the statements that contradict author's point of view
• indicate what questions are in the text No answers.
• and etc.

In order not to re-read the text many times, I advise you to number all the statements in the draft and opposite each one write the number of the sentence from the text that reflects it, putting a plus sign. If there is no such statement in the text, put a minus. This way you will have a clear picture of what is in the text and what is not, what contradicts and what corresponds to the content, etc.

As a result, you can easily give the correct answer without re-reading the text several times, which takes time! This is especially important when applicants complete this assignment at the end.

4. Then complete the remaining tasks in part, which are not always more difficult than the questions in part A, but they often “weigh” more.

5. When determining the style of speech (text), think about where you could find this passage: in a textbook, reference book, Internet, newspaper, report, instruction, regulation, etc.

Each functional style of speech in Russian serves its own area of ​​activity. By answering the question “Where does this text come from?”, you will more accurately determine its style.

6. Remember that tabular tasks B7 - B10 cannot be completed by excluding already marked lines from the right column. In other words, the same numbers from the right column can correspond to several lines from the left column, indicated by letters.

For example, the correct answer might look like this:

A 2 , B3, V 2 , G4.

7 . When completing tasks in Part A (A16 - A21), carefully read each sentence where you need to place punctuation marks or indicate those where they are already placed.

Besides, Necessarily do a syntactic analysis of each sentence (i.e., parse it into members), pose questions from one word to another or from one grammatical part to another in order to understand how many grammatical bases there are in a complex sentence, what conjunctions are used to connect the parts, whether the conjunction is repeated or no, etc. Of course, you need to remember and apply the appropriate rule!

How to avoid some technical mistakes

1. I recommend not folding the sheets of assignments (A4 format).

About 7 years ago, during testing in the Russian language, there was an incident involving my student. The guy was very well prepared, but during the test, for convenience, he folded the sheets of tasks in half. He completed, as it seemed to him, the entire test and slowly began to transfer the answers from the draft to the form. It was only then that he realized that those tasks that ended up inside one folded piece of paper remained unworked. And time was running out. The guy feverishly began to make up for lost time, nervous and not having time to think about the conditions... As a result, instead of the expected 95-100 points, he received 60.

2 . If you missed some task while taking the test, be sure to mark it in your draft with a special bold icon so that when you transfer it to the answer form, you do not miss the corresponding box.

And again a case from my practice. Around 2005, one of my students made such a mistake and received 15 points instead of the expected high scores (the guy carefully prepared for the test throughout the 11th grade). Those. the correct answers were indicated only for a few tasks, and the remaining answers were shifted in the form by exactly one missing position...

Be careful!

3 . There is no need to be nervous: the Central Command is not the front line where you can die. Life doesn't end with tests. Remember that extra nerves during the test are your sworn enemies.

The lower your nerve level, the higher your score! (CT statistics 2017 - ).

I wish everyone good luck and hope that my advice, like the author’s, will help you become successful first-year students.

Sincerely, Russian language tutor and site manager Irina Mikhailovna Bovtrukevich.

Comments:

Thank you! Very useful information.

Valentina Ivanovna