Unified State Examination - how much there is in this sound...

The abbreviation alone is worth it, what scope for creativity! Directly in accordance with the favorite saying of registry office workers (“a good deed will not be called a marriage”). In fact, I personally am far from the idea of ​​indiscriminately criticizing this system and completely agree with my editorial colleague, who, having learned that the production editor was planning to put the topic of the Unified State Exam on the first page, warned: “There is simply such a philistine point of view in the information flow. Like, all the evil comes from the Unified State Examination, remove it, and immediately there will be happiness, “like in Soviet times, when we studied.” I wouldn’t want TrV to go down this road...”

No, it won’t work. Let's not simplify it. If only because almost the entire world has long been conducting exams in the form of written tests - and lives normally. In any area of ​​life, if there are several alternative options, you can find your pros and cons. And the task of using the system is precisely to emphasize the pros and retouch the cons. And also to minimize subjective factors. It is worth recognizing, however, that in our country the subjective factor is stronger than anywhere else. Since ancient times, people in Russia have lived not by laws, but by concepts, and they prefer to negotiate specifically and personally rather than follow the established general framework.

The Unified State Exam, the topic of which at the beginning of summer is more relevant than ever, faces similar problems. On the one hand, the Unified State Exam is just a tool for solving certain problems, and it is stupid to blame the tool for not working that way. After all, people hold it in their hands - and the demand is from them. But, on the other hand, the Unified State Exam at the moment, in fact, is the first real test for millions of young people entering adulthood. And in many ways, their future fate and career will depend on how they pass this test. I don’t want the just-beginning life of school graduates to go wrong because of the incorrect use of the tool.

It just so happens that our newspaper, although it writes a lot about education, is still not an expert in this field. Our opinion, on average, does not differ from that of the philistine, the spectrum of which, by the way, is very wide - from “even the water used to be wetter” to “down with all the relics of the past.” Our authors, for the most part, have either no longer had time to become familiar with the mysteries of the Unified State Exam personally, or, at best, can become acquainted with it through the experience of their children and grandchildren. Therefore, we ourselves do not take on this complex and multifaceted topic, but give the right to speak on our pages to specialists. The editors (itself with a fairly wide range of views) do not take a position in support of or, conversely, in opposition to the publications posted. In this case, we are the platform. That is, it is still the same tool that can be used correctly.

Ilya Mirmov