For several years, the form of state (final) certification of graduates of Russian schools has remained relatively unchanged. And now changes are coming. They will affect, first of all, eleventh graders.
In 2015, 11th grade graduates will have to write a final essay in addition to the usual Unified State Examination in the Russian language. This news has long ceased to be fresh and is actively discussed by all interested parties.
V.V. is considered the ideological inspirer of the return of the final essay to school. Putin. However, this innovation has been talked about for a long time - almost from the very day when schoolchildren began taking the Unified State Exam in the Russian language. The President only gave instructions to develop the concept of such a form final certification.
To date, several models of final essays have been developed, although none of them have been approved yet. The relevant official documents will most likely be made public by September. But future graduates are already seriously puzzled by the question: What essay will eleventh graders have to write in 2015? Let us repeat, there is no officially approved information on this matter yet. Currently, the concept of a graduation essay is at the discussion stage. At the same time, certain points can already be clarified.
Essays will be checked by teachers with the assistance of independent experts. Work will be assessed on a pass/fail basis. Because students will write the essay in December, then in case of failure, the student will have the opportunity to complete school year write the essay again. Works will be scanned and posted in regional and federal information systems ensuring the conduct of the Unified State Exam, the graduate will be given the right, when submitting documents to the admissions committees of universities, to independently decide whether to provide the university with a written essay as part of a portfolio or not. Higher educational establishments will be able to independently establish rules for taking into account essay results upon admission. The maximum score that a university can assign for a paper is 10, and the score received is added to the Unified State Exam scores.
When will schoolchildren write their final essay?
It is assumed that this exam will be held in December as admission to the traditional Unified State Exam. Graduates who are not satisfied with the exam result will be able to retake it at an additional time - approximately in February.
Will the topics for the final essay be known in advance?
We can definitely say that there will be a certain openness in the topics of the final essay. Two main points are discussed:
Topics for graduation essays
The graduate will be asked to write an essay on topics related, for example, to literature or history. Possible topics related to significant dates history and culture, the most important events of the current year, etc.
These could be topics:
Now, by the way, the following areas are being discussed, within the framework of which it is planned to formulate topics for final essays:
Genres of graduation essays
Today, there are three main genres of final essays:
The genre typology of essays can subsequently be changed or supplemented.
How will the final essay be assessed in 2015?
The criteria for assessing the final essay are still under discussion. Opinions are expressed about borrowing tables of criteria from part C of the Unified State Exam in the Russian language, task C5 of the Unified State Exam in literature, and the State Examination in the Russian language (GK1 - GK4). Opponents of all kinds of templates propose to develop criteria for each type of essay separately or to evaluate the specific activity of the graduate in creating the text of the essay.
An intermediate version of the concept of returning the final essay is publicly available on the Internet and, by the way, has been proposed for public discussion. You can view the document here: http://sochinenie.wikivote.ru.
- How does an essay in the Unified State Exam in Russian differ from the final essay?
- What difficulties do schoolchildren face when writing their final essay?
For an essay that can receive additional points when a graduate enters a university, it is necessary, first of all, to know the definitions of those concepts that will be named in the topic and their deep understanding.
- Is it worth writing an essay according to a template, or can the graduate allow himself to show his individuality in the final essay? To what extent is the student allowed to express his own opinion in the essay?
It is hardly worth talking about any templates if the goal of the work is to get away from template thinking. But independence, evidence-based judgments, and logical arguments are not only welcomed, but also required!
- Self-test list for essay: what elements of composition must be present in the essay?
5 paragraphs of an essay are 5 elements of composition: interpretation of concepts, own position, two arguments and a conclusion. A prerequisite: you can put the word “means” between the first paragraphs and the conclusion.
- What is meant by the concept of “communicative intent of an essay,” and what are the ways of expressing it?
This is a graduate position that needs to be proven.
- How not to “go aside” from the topic of the essay and build a convincing argument?
You should always remember the characteristics of the text: each sentence is combined with the topic in meaning and grammatically. If the topic includes, for example, the concept of “fidelity to the word,” then everything that the graduate writes should be about fidelity to the word, and not fidelity in general!
- How to prepare arguments on topics for a student who is not well-read? What short works can you recommend reading for argumentation on the topics “Loyalty and betrayal”, “Indifference and responsiveness”, “Goals and means”, “Courage and cowardice”, “Man and society”.
I consider two options very reasonable: either know the text of two works perfectly, be able to consider prepared arguments within all directions, or prepare two “basic” essays in two similar areas (for example, such as “Goal and Means” - “Responsiveness and Indifference”, "Courage and Cowardice")
The December graduation essay differs from the essay written as part of the Unified State Exam in the Russian language in a number of features, starting with the number of paragraphs, as the graduates themselves say (5 in total!). In addition, the final essay is checked by school teachers and assessed according to the “pass” - “fail” system.
Working with the final essay makes it possible to sum up certain results in school speech teaching, being a kind of diagnostic indicator of the success of the spiritual and moral development and education of schoolchildren.
The final essay should show the erudition of its author - a graduate, the ability to get away from templates and “test” thinking, turn to literary material, choosing the work (or works) that is most relevant to the problems of the essay to reveal the topic. An essay in the Unified State Exam format is an analysis of the topic, the problem of the proposed text, a determination of the author’s position and the graduate’s subsequent reasoning about agreement or disagreement with the author, presenting two arguments from various sources, including journalism and scientific literature.
Graduate task, writing an essay in December is defined as follows: within the framework of the chosen topic, formulate your thesis, your position and present convincing arguments.
The examination kit includes 5 essay topics from a closed list (one topic from each general thematic area).
The two essays (final and for the Unified State Exam) also differ in the criteria by which the work is evaluated:
Criteria for assessing the final essay
The essay is assessed according to five criteria. Criteria No. 1 and No. 2 are the main ones.
To receive credit for the final essay, you must receive a “pass” for criteria No. 1 and No. 2 (a “failure” for one of these criteria automatically leads to a “failure” for the work as a whole), as well as an additional “pass” for at least one of the other criteria (No. 3 - No. 5).
When assigning a grade, the length of the essay is taken into account. The recommended word count is 350. If the essay contains less than 250 words (all words are included in the count, including function words), then such work is considered uncompleted and is scored 0 points.
The maximum number of words in an essay is not established: in determining the volume of his essay, the graduate must proceed from the fact that 3 hours 55 minutes are allotted for the entire work.
Criterion No. 1. "Relevant to the theme"
This criterion aims to check the content of the essay. The graduate discusses the proposed topic, choosing the way to reveal it (for example, answers the question posed in the topic, or reflects on the proposed problem, or constructs a statement based on theses related to the topic, etc.).
“Fail” is given only if the essay does not correspond to the topic or does not show the specific purpose of the statement, i.e. communicative intent (in all other cases a “pass” is given).
Criterion No. 2. “Argumentation. Attraction literary material»
This criterion aims to test the ability to use literary material to construct an argument on the proposed topic and to argue one’s position.
The graduate builds an argument, using at least one work of domestic or world literature for argumentation, choosing his own path of using literary material; shows different level comprehension of literary material: from elements of semantic analysis (for example, themes, issues, plot, characters, etc.) to a comprehensive analysis of a literary text in the unity of form and content and its interpretation in terms of the chosen topic.
“Fail” is given if the essay was written without involving literary material, or it is significantly distorted content of the work, or literary works are only mentioned in the work, without becoming a support for reasoning (in all other cases a “pass” is given).
Criterion No. 3. "Composition"
This criterion aims to test the ability to logically construct a reasoning on the proposed topic.
The graduate gives reasons for the thoughts expressed, trying to maintain the relationship between the thesis and evidence.
A “fail” is given if gross logical violations interfere with understanding the meaning of what was said or there is no thesis-proof part (in all other cases a “fail” is given).
Criterion No. 4. "Speech quality"
This criterion aims to check the speech format of the text of the essay. The graduate expresses thoughts accurately, using a variety of vocabulary and various grammatical structures, uses terms appropriately when necessary, and avoids speech cliches.
“Fail” is given if the low quality of speech is significant
makes it difficult to understand the meaning of the essay (in all other cases a “pass” is given).
Criterion No. 5. "Literacy"
This criterion allows you to assess the graduate’s literacy.
“Fail” is given if speech, grammatical, as well as spelling and punctuation errors made in the essay make it difficult to read and understand the text (in total, more than 5 errors per 100 words).
Listening to the iridescent trill of the bell at the ceremonial ceremony marking the end of the last academic year, graduates are desperately trying to look respectable and independent. However, this is not working out well for them, because all the delights of school life today ends with the last bell. An essay about saying goodbye to childhood perfectly conveys these touching, emotional experiences of yesterday's schoolchildren.
The wall clock rhythmically counts down the last minutes of the literature lesson. High school students complete an essay on the topic “ How will I spend my summer" The girls' dreamy eyes are already full of romance. The guys' eyes glow with mischief in anticipation of an extreme, exciting vacation. Latest school summer holidays you need to do your best. Next summer, full of final tests and admission to universities, will no longer be so carefree.
School days May flies by like torn pages of a calendar. All the students and teachers gathered in the school yard for the ceremonial assembly. To the magical sounds of the notorious “Farewell of the Slav” march, a line of graduates appears, tied with red ribbons. Today it will ring for them last school bell. Girls often bat their eyelashes so that unshed lakes of tears do not spill along with their cosmetics. The guys hold on with their lips tightly pressed together and hide their sadness behind feigned bravado. They will never again sit at their desks in painful anticipation of the end of the lesson. Now, having matured, they are grateful to their teachers for their patience and tolerance, severity and fairness, perseverance and responsiveness, kindness and endless faith in the abilities of their students. For the fact that, without giving any concessions, for years they cultivated in them character, perseverance, fortitude and desire for knowledge.
Today, graduates say goodbye not only to school, but also to childhood. They enter into adult life, full of difficulties, unexpected turns and independent decisions. So they are a little confused and upset.
And finally the speeches are over. A minute's pause, and it rings, so dear, school bell. It brings back memories of past years in the memory of graduates. Here are funny, freckled first-graders looking out in fear from behind their huge bouquets, trying not to let their parents out of sight. The lessons are so long and endless. The first teacher, strict and demanding, gradually becomes their second mother. And he will scold, and regret, and stand up for the offenders.
Over the years, the teachers' efforts have borne fruit. There was an interest in learning, a thirst for new knowledge and discoveries. Heated discussions in class almost led to a fight, but wise teachers taught us to think logically and be able to resolve conflicts with words. Smart guys and smart girls They commanded respect among their classmates and were always ready to help. Life practically took place at school: lessons, breaks, lunches, all kinds of competitions and olympiads, competitions and, of course, excursions. Long awaited summer holidays in the second half of July they were already starting to get bored, because there was not enough communication with school friends.
I also remember unpleasant moments: skipping classes, calling parents to school, sheets with deuces torn out of the diary. Well, now they seem like such cute little things.
The call died down. Lakes of tears still spilled out of the girl’s eyes. The boys hurried to look in their pockets for handkerchiefs and wipe away the tears of their classmates. Now they will walk through their home school floors for the last time as a whole class. They will go into their favorite office and sit at their desks to listen last thing parting words from the class teacher.
Of course, there will still be annual alumni meetings. In addition, everyone vows eternal friendship to each other. But the state of childhood will never be repeated. The pure, naive look of tear-stained eyes will not be repeated. The child’s endless trust in others will not be repeated. All this will remain behind the closed school door, behind the gate of the school yard, behind the farewell wave of the hand of a beloved and already dear teacher.
I would like to wish today’s schoolchildren not to rush to grow up. Enjoy every moment of your childhood. Value school friendship because it is the strongest. Respect the work of teachers, because it is hard labor. Accumulate knowledge, as it is your foundation. Let your memories of school remain pure, bright and for life.
Graduates 2013
Mini-essays about the school graduates of 2013
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MBOU Secondary School No. 2 in Olekminsk. Graduates of 2013.
The sun is above the desk, summer is at your feet.
How long does it last, last call?
In the windows the Universe does not decrease,
The school watches, but itself shrinks.
Views fly over the distant helm
A sharp lancet, a powerful machine.
And over the country, like over an assembly hall
The day is filled with blue and scarlet
School farewell crystal bell.
Grigorieva Dasha
Saying goodbye to our good school,
We will say sincerely: I'm sorry.
To the teachers - bow to the floor,
Poems and the best flowers.
Dawn will come and we’ll go our separate ways,
To start living anew...
We will definitely be back,
Try not to get bored!
Torgkin Seryozha
I would like to wish the school what it has always lacked: order, reliability, good fame. I would like to wish that more bright and kind children come to the second school.
Kapitonov Evgeniy
I wish the school to stand for a hundred years so that no cataclysms destroy it.
First of all, I wish the teachers health, long life, so that their students are as obedient and good as we are.
Teachers, be as young and kind, moderately strict. Know that we love you!
Kolmogorova Ira
You taught us for 11 years,
They had patience, giving us knowledge.
You loved us, you taught us
And they understood so much.
And we thank you for everything:
For affection, kindness and knowledge.
Thank you, Teachers!
Ivanova Ksenia
Over several years, school No. 2 gave me a lot of good things. The school has excellent learning conditions, good teachers and smart kids.
I would like to wish prosperity to my native school, patience to the teachers, and to future students and those who are studying now to study well and, most importantly, to do everything for the benefit of the school.
The second school is the best!
Soon we will leave the walls of our native school and would like to be sure that the school remains in good hands, that we can rely on the children who remain.
Take care of our school! Take care of your teachers' nerves! Study well, don't disgrace the school!
Makhchagarov Valera
Best wishes to the school and those who study and work in it.
Good luck to teachers so that smart students come to school.
Good luck to the students, don't quarrel with the teachers, otherwise you will have surprises at the end of the year.
Dear school, I wish you to be glorified by your students good deeds. And always be the best! I hope we hear from you again!
Yu-tsi-fa Maxim
What can you wish for the school? I don’t want to wish for something banal, because I owe a lot to school... It’s not for nothing that they say: “School is a second home.” And believe me, it is true. Isn't it at school that we make friends? Isn't it when we first fall in love at school? Who teaches us life? Yes, yes, this is all school. For eleven years we studied and saw a lot. Generations have changed before our eyes, and I think that we were a worthy replacement.
I wish the school smart students, talented new teachers who can make a worthy successor to our family and beloved “parents.” Teachers raised us, educated us, and now we are leaving them on a long journey called “Life.” Love, celebrate and appreciate the school!
Dear, beloved teachers! I wish you long life, so that your students make you happy, so that you always have smiles on your faces! Everything rests on you, you are Atlanteans holding the school on your shoulders.
Abdrakhimova Ekaterina
Dear teachers! Today we are leaving the walls of the school, which has become our home. Here we gained knowledge, grew up, made friends, fell in love, quarreled, fought and made peace. And you, our teachers, have always been the most caring advisors for us!
Thank you very much for your warmth, sensitivity and enormous patience. We wish you that many, many more new generations of children will pass through your caring hands. I wish you health and success in your noble work!
Our school is a small Motherland.
Here we learned a lot of new things,
We read a lot of books.
School teaches us kindness and patience,
Love friends, teachers and teaching itself.
Our destinies begin from school
And it is never forgotten in the heart,
What did you give us?
For selfless generosity, for kind hearts,
For everything, for everything that conquered souls,
Thank you for loving us,
At least they were strict with us at times.
Because you taught us to think,
For everything, for everything they did for us,
Sincere thanks
We tell all teachers.
We wish everyone health and happiness,
More smiles and warmth to the heart,
And may your work be wonderful
Bringing satisfaction and joy!
Safargaleeva Kristina
I would like our school to last a long time and to produce more medalists.
Favorite teachers, of course, good students (although if all students grasp everything on the fly, they will probably be boring to teach), immeasurable health, enormous patience (for there will always be difficult students) and endless happiness.
I would like to wish the technical workers that their salaries increase, and that their work is appreciated by schoolchildren.
I wish my beloved director that all her dreams come true.
Advice to students of our school: do not rush to leave here, even when studying is “stressful”, there is nothing you can do about it. I think the time spent here is one of the best. Now you may not believe me, but when you graduate, then you will understand. Smile, rejoice, love, learn, make friends - now, not later.
Lytkina Saina
Dear guys, students of school No. 2! Everyone knows that school is a second home, but not everyone realizes it. I want you to cherish the time you spend at school.
School years are the most best years our life. The years fly by quickly, and before you know it, you’re already standing on the threshold of adulthood.
I would like to wish that you do not retreat from your goal, move forward, develop, and strive for knowledge. The school gives you everything, you just have to want to receive it. We need you to build your future now, it is in your hands - make it happy! Don't argue with teachers, they care about you, guide you on the right path, invest their souls, and want all the best. Take care of teachers! Love school!
I wish teachers patience, patience and more patience. After all, being a teacher in our time is not at all easy.
I really, really love the school and wish that it always prospers and produces smart, good people.
Chuvashov Maxim
First of all, I advise students to submit assignments given by teachers on time, otherwise they will accumulate a lot of debt later. I know from myself how difficult it is to be in debt at the end of the year. Of course, I understand that all this is boring, I want to hang out with friends and have fun, but it would be better to spend time on completing tasks. Don't put your studies on the back burner!
What can I tell you, our teachers? So this is about you being yourself. You are experienced, you know better how to conduct your activities, so I will not want you to become softer and more condescending towards your students.
I will miss school, my classmates, my friends from other classes.
Chibyeva Veronica
Dear school, in all my eleven years of studying here, you have truly become my second home. It was here that I acquired the knowledge and experience that I will need in my future life. It was school that taught me to love, because here I met many wonderful people. The school revealed a lot of valuable things to me and taught me to take care of them.
My beloved school, live and develop, preserve and accumulate knowledge for those whom you teach and will teach.
I also want to tell my family and beloved teachers that I will always miss and remember you. I would like to wish you that every year your students become better and smarter thanks to you. Wishing you happiness and long life, and stay as beautiful as you are now.
Karnaukhov Ivan
During all 11 years at school, I received a lot of emotions, found new, best friends, got very used to the teachers and fell in love with all the teachers.
And now ours end last days at school, and I feel a mixed feeling - either joy or sadness. Probably both. But more, of course, sadness. I understand that everything will end, everyone who is in this moment If they are friends, they will most likely drift apart and stop communicating. But wherever we are, we will remember our native school, about you, dear ones, beloved teachers.
I wish you all the best, the best students, of course, health, happiness, good luck and that we will always be remembered.
Thanks for all. We won't forget you!
Kosilova Ksenia
School is a second home. You won't find a second home like this, even if you go around the whole Earth. It's a shame that time flies so quickly. I'm leaving...I'm leaving along the educational levels into the future, where there is no this sweet childhood, this wonderful school time. But wherever I am, I will always remember that in my small homeland there is a very reliable berth.
Teachers, teachers, let them forgive us for everything. We still have to look for such teachers. The search will probably be in vain. No, there won't be such people anymore. Let them forgive us for sometimes bringing us to tears, for not appreciating us. It took time to tell them this. But better late than never.
Oh, how wonderful school years are! It's a pity that we won't have you back again. A new generation is coming, and I wanted them to appreciate what is so dear to all of us.
Kuldyaev Anatoly Konstantinovich
I’ve been studying at my home school since the first grade and I’m so used to it, to the people who surround me, that I don’t want to finish 11th grade.
I would like to wish the school that its walls do not crack, that the light bulbs that give warmth and light do not burn out, that students come here with a smile on their faces and a great desire to gain knowledge.
I wish my students to get rid of all bad habits and have nothing to do with them, to participate more in the life of the school.
And I would like to wish teachers that they will always be young in soul and body, and most importantly, healthy, and that there will be no misunderstandings between us.
Frolova Anna
This year I’m saying goodbye to school, and I’m sad to leave it, because I studied here for 11 years. Over the years, school has become my second home.
I want to wish all teachers health, patience, good students.
I wish the students success in their studies and good relations with teachers, built on mutual understanding and friendship.
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I'm a graduate
My high school graduation is approaching, which means it will soon be time to say goodbye to childhood and enter adulthood. Now I feel like I’m on the threshold of something new and unknown. I don’t know what awaits me ahead, but I feel that life will very soon change beyond recognition.
Parents and teachers scare us, graduates, with upcoming responsibilities and exams. They say it's time to make a choice life path and profession. But how can you choose when the future is still so vague...
I really don’t want to part with my school friends and I still can’t believe that very soon I won’t have to go to school anymore. It seems like just yesterday that the kids and I were playing football in the yard after school, jumping in garages and launching boats through spring puddles, and now, in a few months, we will become students.
I plan to enter the Faculty of Mathematics at St. Petersburg State University and move to St. Petersburg to study. This means that soon I will say goodbye to my parents and go to live in the hostel.
My older brother Kolya, who has also been studying in St. Petersburg for three years, says that being a student is very cool. You quickly get used to getting up on your own in the morning, not counting on your mother waking you up, getting to the university by public transport, going to the store and cooking. And then, when the first feeling of discomfort goes away, you can already begin to enjoy all the delights of student life.
And, according to Kolya, there are a lot of them. This includes communication with classmates, new interesting subjects, walks around the city, visits to cultural places of the Northern capital and, of course, evening gatherings in the halls of the hostel and songs with a guitar.
I hope that everything will be exactly as my older brother describes. And even if not, I’m not at all afraid of change. I believe that in life you should always move forward, accepting everything that fate has in store for you.
