For any 11th-grader or his parent, preparing for the Unified State Exam is one of the most pressing issues. After all, the opportunity to pass the Unified State Exam well, and then enter the desired university and get a prestigious profession is a very serious task. It becomes clear why preparation for this important test begins in advance.
Some students prefer to prepare for upcoming exams on their own, while the parents of others rely more on the fruitful work of tutors or enroll their children in special preparatory courses. By and large, the stage of preparation for the Unified State Exam is a purely personal matter, so it is worth planning it taking into account your own capabilities and needs. The main drawback that brings fear to all students of the current 11th grade is considered to be the rules for passing exams, which, by the way, change almost monthly. Because of them, the final tests become even more difficult.
Exam date 2017
At the moment, the most pressing topic for future graduates continues to be the question of what date the Unified State Examination will take in 2017. According to the official source, the announced testing will take place in two stages: early and main. The first will begin in March 2017, while the second will have to wait until the end of May. The most chosen subject by 11th graders was natural science, so a separate day was allocated specifically for it.
Reserve dates for conducting the Unified State Examination in some subjects are also provided. Additional time should also be allocated for conducting examinations in 9th grade. 
Early stage 2017
March 14 – mathematics (basic and specialized).
March 16 – computer science, chemistry, history.
March 18 – foreign languages (oral stage).
March 20 – Russian language.
March 22 – biology, physics, foreign languages (written stage).
March 24 – literature, social studies, geography.
Reserve days
April 3 – chemistry, literature, computer science, history, foreign languages (oral stage).
April 5 – social studies, physics, biology, foreign languages (written part).
April 7 – mathematics (basic and specialized), Russian language.
Main stage of 2017
May 26 – geography.
May 29 – Russian language.
May 31 – computer science, chemistry, history.
June 2 – mathematics (specialized).
June 5 – social studies.
June 7 – mathematics (basic).
June 9 – biology, foreign languages (written).
June 13 – physics, literature.
June 15 – foreign languages (oral).
June 16 – foreign languages (oral). 
Reserve days
June 19 – geography, history, chemistry, computer science.
June 20 – biology, foreign languages (written), physics, literature, social studies.
June 21 – Russian language.
June 22 – mathematics (specialized).
June 28 – mathematics (basic).
June 29 – foreign languages (oral).
June 30 – any subject.
How many compulsory subjects do you need to take to get a certificate?
Previously, students took only two subjects, but in 2017 the exams will undergo a number of changes. Simply put, another required subject is added to obtain a certificate. The first two are mathematics and the Russian language, and what the other one will be is not yet resolved. There is an assumption that it may be a foreign language, but education experts suggest other, no less important “candidates”.
Additional item
In addition to the main three subjects, students take one more on a voluntary basis by personal choice. This mainly depends on admission to the planned specialty in educational organizations of higher education. The full list of entrance exams for each area of training will be determined in accordance with the order of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science.
In 2017, there were more compulsory disciplines, while the number of subjects on the list decreased. Nevertheless, the total number of disciplines to be passed remains the same - 4 (3 main and 1 elective). 
The list of subjects to choose from for the 2017 Unified State Examination includes 12 options.
1. Literature.
2. History.
3. Biology.
4. Chemistry.
5. Physics.
6. Geography.
7. Social studies.
8. computer science and ICT
9. English language.
10. German language.
11. Spanish language.
12. French language.
You will have to take Unified State Exam subjects of your personal choice solely for future admission to universities. If no further study is planned, upcoming examinations are limited to the 3 core subjects.
If a current graduate receives an unsatisfactory USE grade, he has every right to retake the exam within the time limits established by the legislation of the Russian Federation. If the Unified State Examination participant does not score the required number of points in the announced subjects, a retake can take place only after a year.
Unified State Exam results
No changes are expected in the results of the 2017 exams. However, we should not forget that the time frame for checking the Unified State Exam results and their subsequent posting on the Internet may be shortened. When conducting the State Examination in the Unified State Exam format, the usual 100-point system will be used. For each of the announced subjects, the minimum number of points required to successfully pass the exam is established.
When the verification is completed, the examination papers are reviewed by the chairman of the State Examination Committee for each subject. A decision regarding approval, modification or cancellation is then announced. Results should be available within 24 hours of being received for review. Next, the results of the Unified State Exam are transferred to local governments, educational organizations and founders, after which they are entered into the federal information system.
The influence of Unified State Exam scores on the grade in the certificate
When taking the Unified State Exam next year, a unified scale for assessing the results obtained by schoolchildren will appear. In simple words, the points earned during the exams will affect the final grade on the certificate.
It is important to announce the minimum scores that should be obtained in all subjects:
It only remains to note that the information announced is the best possible way to demonstrate to future graduates their upcoming difficulties on the path to a bright future. In order not to let the situation go until the last minute, it’s time to think now about exactly how future exams will be held.
One of the big and serious tests for every graduate is, of course, passing the unified state exam, that is, the Unified State Exam, which worries and worries not only the students themselves, but also parents and teachers. Currently, successfully passing the Unified State Exam is a kind of guarantee and key to further education in a successful and prestigious higher education institution. What is needed for this? That's right, prepare well for the exam. The date of the Unified State Exam in 2017 is also a good helper for the children, since, knowing the exact date, the children plan and distribute all their workload and preparation.
The complete and exact schedule of the Unified State Exam, as a rule, becomes known only on September 10, which is when Rospotrebnadzor specialists officially announce the exact dates and deadlines for the Unified State Exam.
Although, a rough plan can still be drawn up in each school, according to which students are guided.
What date is the exam?
Regarding when 11th grade graduates will have to take exams in 2017, experts name the following approximate dates.
Regarding the reserve days in the main period, experts call the time from June 22 to 30. As a rule, these are the days on which those graduates who, for good and compelling reasons, were unable to pass and attend the exams in the main stream take exams. As a rule, such a reason is a serious illness, for which it is necessary to submit an appropriate certificate. As for the retake, most likely it will not be carried out in the summer, since days and hours will be allocated for this in the fall, that is, in September.
Unified State Exam and its features.
As for innovations in 2017, among all those that are already officially known and announced, the following can be named.
- 1.The number of compulsory subjects will be three. In other words, the list of compulsory subjects will include such disciplines as mathematics, Russian language and most likely history. The history exam itself will include not only a test part of the work, but also an oral one, in order to more effectively and maximally test the level and quality of students’ assimilation of the curriculum in this discipline. Although there is an assumption that foreign languages could become a third subject of choice.
- 2. The total number of subjects for passing the Unified State Exam in 2017 will remain the same - 4 disciplines, but this is only if a third compulsory subject is not introduced.
- 3.The exam in a discipline such as “Informatics and ICT” will be conducted strictly on computers, so the required amount of equipment must be prepared for passing the exams in this subject.
- 4.Scores for the Unified State Exam will have a direct impact on the Unified State Exam, both in compulsory and elective disciplines.
- 5.The Russian language will be supplemented with an oral part, as in foreign languages in the “Speaking” section. That is why, in order to successfully pass such an exam, students must have good oratory and recitation skills.
- 6.Mathematics is divided into two levels - basic and specialized. Where each has its own level of tasks.
As you can see, the Unified State Exam for 11th grade students undergoes major changes every year, which, according to specialists and experts, will help to maximally test the level of students’ assimilation of the curriculum and accurately and qualitatively assess their knowledge. But will these innovations and innovations help the children themselves? How will all this affect their psychological and emotional state? After all, you must admit that there are situations when a child knows everything. He studies well, but for some reason, he shows completely different and opposite results in exams. What to do in this situation? But, this is a topic for another conversation.
As the Minister of Education stated, in 2017 the Unified State Exam system will undergo big changes. We will try to tell you in more detail what new rules for passing the Unified State Exam in 2017 are being discussed by representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science.
Rules for passing the Unified State Exam in 2017
The most important news, which may disappoint some schoolchildren: there is no talk of any cancellation of the Unified State Exam. The new Minister of Education, on the contrary, noted the need to preserve the unified state exam system and its further improvement. But the form of taking the exam will most likely undergo changes. And we will talk about abandoning the test part.
The former Minister of Education D. Livanov stated that tests have become obsolete as a form of testing knowledge. He said that the gradual abandonment of the test part of the exam in all subjects without exception is already being considered by his department. And by 2017 we will see the first results of such changes.
According to rumors, the new rules for passing the Unified State Exam also implied the introduction of a third compulsory subject. History (or biology, according to some sources) should have been added to the “Russian language + mathematics” pair. But since, according to the rules, all important changes must be published before the start of the academic year, and there is no information on the FIPI website, graduates of 2017 can breathe freely - there will be no third compulsory subject
However, the question of a new exam is still open. True, a decision on it will be made after open public discussions, as officials from the Ministry of Education assure.
Rules for submitting subjects
Russian language
Before the start of the school year, there was talk about introducing a new part to the Russian language exam - “speaking”, by analogy with the English “speaking”, that is, oral speech. However, the Ministry of Education decided to try this option first on the Unified State Examination, that is, on ninth graders. After the appropriate “run-in”, the oral part of the exam will reach the Unified State Examination.
Thus, no global changes are expected in the Russian language exam. There will be innovations only in some tasks, and all innovations will be aimed at expanding the material and making it more complex.
Mathematics
The division into two levels in the mathematics exam still remains. Those who decide to connect their future profession with the humanities will only need to pass a basic exam, but those who want to enter engineering and technical universities will have to pass a more complex specialized part. And in this part, small changes are possible: tasks of increased complexity may turn out to be truly “increased”, that is, requiring a non-standard approach to solution.
Physics
The physics exam will undergo the most serious and significant changes - the abandonment of the test part. That is, students will no longer have the opportunity to guess the correct answer from the list of provided options. The test part will be replaced by a block with short answers, that is, solutions in the form of numbers or words. Thanks to this innovation, physics will truly become the most difficult exam on the Unified State Exam list.
Biology
The test part will also be removed from the biology exam. Just like in physics, the place of tests will be taken by a model with short answers. The main block of tasks will also expand: it will include new types of tasks, compared to previous years. Those taking the exam will also be required to be able to work with tables, graphs and diagrams - the Unified State Examination in Biology will include tasks on restoring missing “pieces” from tables or flowcharts. But at the same time, the developers assure that the exam will not become too difficult (as in the case of physics).
Chemistry
Another subject from which the test component will be excluded will be chemistry. And even in the block with short answers, changes will appear - for example, there will be several correct options, and the student’s task will be to decide how many correct answers the problem actually has. The developers seem to have decided to simplify the exam - the number of tasks in the Unified State Exam in Chemistry 2017 will be reduced.
Social studies, history, computer science, foreign language, and geography remain virtually unchanged. All these subjects, according to officials from the Ministry of Education, will not cause any special problems for schoolchildren.
The schedule of the Unified State Exam (USE) for 2019 was approved by joint orders of the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science and the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and registered by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. Download the order.
The Unified State Exam in 2019 for grade 11 will traditionally be held in three stages:
The early and main periods of the Unified State Examination will begin with exams in geography and literature. Reserve periods are provided for each examination period.
Graduates of previous years can take the Unified State Exam during the early period and reserve periods of the main period of the Unified State Exam, graduates of the current year - during the main periods of the main period. Graduates who have the same exam dates in individual academic subjects can also take them on reserve dates. You can take part in the Unified State Exam at other times only if there are valid reasons (illness or other circumstances), documented and confirmed by a corresponding decision of the state examination commission.
Early period of the Unified State Exam 2019 (State Examination Grade 11)
Graduates who received unsatisfactory results in the Russian language and mathematics, or who repeatedly received an unsatisfactory result in one of these academic subjects on a reserve day, can participate in the Unified State Examination in the Russian language and mathematics at the basic level in the additional (September) period.
Additional period (September terms)
The same orders approved the duration of examinations and a list of additional training aids that can be carried with you during examinations in various subjects. They remained unchanged compared to last year.
The Unified State Examination in all academic subjects begins at 10.00 local time.
Duration of the Unified State Exam in profile-level mathematics, physics, literature, computer science and information and communication technologies (ICT), social studies, history is 3 hours 55 minutes (235 minutes); in Russian language, chemistry, biology - 3 hours 30 minutes (210 minutes); in basic level mathematics, geography, foreign languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese) (except for the “Speaking” section) - 3 hours (180 minutes); in foreign languages (English, French, German, Spanish) (section “Speaking”) - 15 minutes; in Chinese (section “Speaking”) - 12 minutes.
Exam participants use teaching and educational tools to complete tasks of control measuring materials of the Unified State Examination in the classrooms of the examination point.
Exam participants are allowed to use the following teaching and educational tools in relevant academic subjects:
In mathematics - a ruler that does not contain reference information (hereinafter referred to as a ruler), for constructing drawings and drawings;
In physics - a ruler for drawing graphs, optical and electrical circuits; a non-programmable calculator that performs arithmetic calculations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, root extraction) and the calculation of trigonometric functions (sin, cos, tg, ctg, arctg, arccos, arcsin), and also does not perform the functions of a communication device or database storage and does not have access to data networks (including the Internet) (hereinafter referred to as a non-programmable calculator);
In chemistry - non-programmable calculator; periodic table of chemical elements D.I. Mendeleev, table of solubility of salts, acids and bases in water, electrochemical series of metal voltages;
In geography - a ruler for measuring distances on a topographic map; a protractor that does not contain reference information for determining azimuths from a topographic map; non-programmable calculator;
For foreign languages - technical means that provide playback of audio recordings contained on electronic media to complete tasks in the “Listening” section of the KIM Unified State Examination; computer equipment that does not have access to the Internet, an audio headset for completing tasks in the “Speaking” section of the KIM Unified State Examination.
The Unified State Examination is conducted according to a unified schedule, which is approved annually by order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
Exams are held in three stages: early, main and additional (September).
Official Unified State Exam 2017 schedule
In accordance with the schedule, exams in 2017 will be held in three stages: early, main and additional.
The early stage of the Unified State Examination in 2017 will be held from March 14 to April 7. The main one is from May 29, 2017 to June 30.
The Unified State Exam in Russian language and basic level mathematics can also be taken during an additional period - from September 4 to September 15.
As in 2016, the schedule, along with reserve dates for conducting the Unified State Exam, Unified State Exam and State Examination in individual academic subjects, provides an additional reserve day for conducting exams in all academic subjects. It is necessary for those participants who, for any reason, were unable to participate in the exam on the main or reserve day, for example, due to the coincidence of two chosen subjects on the same day or absence for a valid reason.
Dates for the Unified State Exam 2017
The early examination period, which is held in March–April, is mainly intended for graduates from previous years.
The main period is traditionally organized in May - June in all subjects for all graduates of the current year.
During the additional period in September, exams are held in compulsory subjects - Russian language and basic level mathematics.
Students who have not passed the state final certification in compulsory subjects have the right to take exams in September.
Graduates who have received a certificate of secondary general education and who wish to improve their satisfactory results in these subjects are not allowed to participate in the Unified State Examination in September. They can retake the exams no earlier than after a year.
To participate in the Unified State Exam, you must submit an application before February 1 (inclusive), which should list the subjects in which the participant plans to take the Unified State Exam. You can indicate any number of items in your application.
School graduates of the current year apply to take the Unified State Exam at their place of study. The rest of those interested must submit an application to the places of registration for taking the Unified State Exam, determined by the educational authorities of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation.