Exam: 12 years on the same rake
And it also began with what we were told: they say, the project for introducing the Unified State Examination in Russia is just a project - no more, no less. The implementation of this project in the so-called pilot regions will begin, and if the preparation, organization, conduct, examination structure and quality of passing the EGE will not cause complaints from specialists, schoolchildren, parents of students and regulatory bodies, the project will spread throughout Russia as the only option final certification in a number of general educational disciplines.
Pilot regions really were. In 2001, Yakutia, Rostov and Samara regions, the Chuvash Republic and Mari El experienced all the “charm” of “egazation”. In the 2002, the USE "passed" already 16 regions of Russia. However, as many remember, from the very first days of the introduction of the Unified State Exam in the pilot regions, complaints on all the above points began to manifest themselves with a certain regularity. It all started with the test materials, and more simply, with specific tasks that were part of the USE options. Not only that at that time, even in the Ministry of Education, headed by Vladimir Filippov, who is today called the “father of the Unified State Exam in Russia”, could not really explain to whom it was the authorship of the questions on various academic disciplines, it was also not completely clear how the Ministry of Education takes into account complaints and suggestions about the oddities of the USE.
A weird enough (and continues to miss). First, excuse me, the “experimental” students after the “pilot” passing of the Unified State Examination faced the problem of missing out to universities of interest to them, even if they scored points on a solid top five. The administration of universities, in which such graduates applied for documents, often stated: we were not given any orders about accepting graduates according to the results of the USE, which means that you want to come to us - welcome to the entrance exams ...
Today we are told that the Ministry of Education and Science took into account the first “bloopers” when organizing the Unified State Exam, and therefore now all universities (well, with rare exceptions - conservatories and other creative ones) should accept school graduates only as a result of the Unified State Exam. However, if you take a closer look, this problem has not really disappeared anywhere. Often, heads of universities create artificial barriers for graduates of schools who have scored a sufficient number of points on the EGE for admission to these same universities for a specific purpose.
Says Alexander M. (university student, Saratov region).
Some hope flashed ... At the meeting, I was told that there is another option - to go to another university (they called me) for a paid department, and after the first year of study it will be possible to transfer here if there are deductions. At first I thought it was an option, but when my parents and I were told the cost of paid tuition ... Our family simply did not have that kind of money. As a result, he lost a lot of time, went back to his native city - Engels (Saratov region), barely had time to go to the local one. Now I say with confidence: all the words that the USE helped to defeat corruption in education are complete nonsense ... I have personal experience.
Scandals with “dead souls” - students, with the help of which university employees try to solve their financial problems, this is just one of the sides of how in modern conditions they have learned to bypass the need to take into account the results of the Unified State Exam upon admission. The scandal in one of the medical schools of the capital of last year is just one of the mass manifestations of a fraudulent scheme in education. But such schemes for the years of using the unified state examination in Russia managed to produce very, very much.
Shifters on the exam - another one of the options. Only in this case graduates are engaged in fraud. Since the overwhelming majority of graduates pass the exam not in their native schools, and in mixed groups, when monitored by “foreign” teachers, it is an option to send someone who has more chances to get the necessary points instead of themselves. Comparing a photo on a passport will be far from everywhere, which is why on the places of graduates in classes during the passing of the Unified State Exam there appear people who act as their “doubles” for a certain reward. The scandal with students of MIPT, who in 2011, passed exams for schoolchildren, is a vivid example of how this system works. But the discovered fraud is only the tip of the iceberg. Five were caught by the hand, and how many were not caught? .. One can only guess ...
The ideologists of the Unified State Exam say that a single state examination allows for a front-end test of the quality of students' knowledge, and the exam is designed in such a way that it is impossible to use outside help on it. And he and the other thesis does not hold water.
Well, what kind of frontal knowledge, for example, in physics or stories can check the exam. The ability to determine the formula for solving a specific task, on which the student has been trained all lately, absolutely cannot show his real knowledge of physical discipline. His ability (or inability) to reason logically, to think outside the box, to apply this knowledge in practice. Such a student cannot demonstrate how skillfully he uses physical equipment for practical purposes, how much he is generally ready to do something with his own hands, and not to describe on paper how he would have done with instruments and materials. After all, there are students who can assemble a complex electrical circuit without a single mistake, carry out all the necessary measurements in it, but cannot clearly articulate their thoughts about how they did it. Well, not all graduates who are strong in physics or mathematics, we have Cicero and writers from nature ... Based on the realities of the USE, their assessment is not ... Is this fair? A rhetorical question ...
And if the student was able to correctly indicate the dates of famous historical events, does this mean that he is well acquainted with the history. In the end, you can poke your finger into the sky and guess the correct answer ... Probability theory does not negate this. The teacher is not able to assess how ready such a graduate is to argue his position, rely on historical facts, compare and do information analysis. The destiny of the student - to scratch something on a special sheet. Scribbled with bad handwriting - also not good, because the technique may not be understood, not disassembled - go prove that you chose the correct letter or entered the right word ... The teacher’s part was to keep his fists, and wait for his ward to get out alive and unharmed from the paws of "Moloch" EGE, and even with the desired result.
Criticism of the Unified State Exam for the 12-year history of its use in Russia has become truly massive. Such an approach to final certification is dissatisfied with the schoolchildren themselves, who, during the last couple of school years, stop learning, and begin to “train” exclusively on the USE, and the teachers, parents of schoolchildren, members of the scientific intelligentsia, and the public. These are tens of millions of people who have been trying to convey to the authorities lately that the Unified State Exam is a vehicle for the implementation of a project called “stupor of the nation”. Perhaps, any Soviet troechnik, will give odds to the modern high achiever who wrote the Unified State Examination on "five" ... And this despite the fact that liberal elites call Soviet education one-sided and subject to pressure of totalitarian ideas ... Today, it seems, it is not subject to - so what? We have around one Lomonosov, Bulgakov, Tupolev or Landau? .. It seems to be no. Other priorities are now showing us: Sveta from Ivanov, “The drug addict Pavlik”, the “heroes” of “House-2”, the deputy Ponomarev reading “innovative” lectures on astronomical prices ...
By the way, it’s not a fact that the same Mikhail Vasilievich would have entered a modern university, because with the results of the USE he would have obvious problems. Not a fact that today would be the first space explorer, Yuri Gagarin, whose father was a carpenter, and his mother - a worker on a farm. Most likely, in our time, Gagarin, when entering a university, would have been circumvented by “beneficiaries”, whose parents would have a higher status and a much larger number of bills in their pockets ...
But if tens of millions of Russians already literally shout that the USE is a substitute for the real assessment of students' knowledge, that this system has absorbed all the negative that western countries refuse, then why does the “triumphant” march of the USE continue? Few old scandals? So there are new: the publication of tests in social networks, the growing number of firms that provide services to solve the tasks of the Unified State Exam and even the issuance of "fake" evidence of a single state examination. Who needs something that is not supported by the overwhelming majority of the Russian people? Or is it a kind of "care" against the will ... You can't be so sweet ...
One gets the impression that our educational system is deliberately put on the same rake, and then they watch what grimace of pain after another blow it makes ... If this is a pleasure for someone, then this is, frankly, an unhealthy interest. Maybe it’s time to stop this crazy experiment on Russian education, which was too long and managed to acquire a whole host of manifestations of corruption, fraud, lowering the level of quality of knowledge, total fear of the USE. After all, it comes to the fact that today's teachers are afraid of schoolchildren with a single state exam: they say, if you don’t give up, you will disgrace yourself and you will dishonor me. Such psychological pressure a priori pushes the graduate into a stressful situation in which he spent the entire last year of his school years.
PS On Tuesday, several high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Education and Science became aware of the resignation. Among them is Deputy Minister Igor Fedyukin. It is reported that the reasons for resignation - is the identification of large-scale frauds in the process of assigning scientific degrees (1323 "fake" doctoral degrees only for 2012 year). They seem to have taken up the "fake" candidates and doctors, as well as the officials who raised the "lime tree" ... Maybe it will be the same as the USE, because its minuses overlap the positive plans that have been connected with this implementation a hundredfold. And if the minuses multiplied 12 years, it is foolish to hope that the situation with the exam will continue to be better.
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