Olympiads against the Unified State Register of Legal Entities: Who is whom?

By the day of the 2017 teacher, such news appeared: almost half of the successful Olympiads cannot overcome the threshold of 60 points of the exam in their subject. Some participants in the long -standing Olympiad are upset: now, will all these become deceivers and corrupt officials? Romance of Soviet times! Let's discuss some points regarding the Olympiads - the author, who once organized the Soviet and Soros Olympiads, is able to judge such only in the field of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and computer science.

First of all, it is necessary to clarify the origin of the indicator 40/60 (40% of the Olympiads are not even pulled by 60 points for the exam). Participants in the finals of the All -Russian Olympiads (where winners and winners are determined) categorically deny this. What kind of Olympiads are we talking about and which Olympiads are about? There are other creative contests in the list of Olympiads - from the tournament of cities and young physicists to not very famous craft competitions.

The second question: what USE mean - the basic or specialized level? Unfortunately, only mathematicians are introduced by the profile exam - let's talk about them. (Here, however, there is an additional question: can graduates of specialized schools and classes limit yourself to passing the base level exam? Why not use the practice of medical and engineering classes when it was decided to check the knowledge of university teachers in graduation classes?)

The current graduates and parents, like the organizers of the Olympiads, should not worry: threats to deal with them - this is a fig in your pocket. Almost on the same day, the rules for admission to universities were published (according to the law), as well as a list of significant 67 Olympiads. Of course, leading universities are interesting. After reading these rules, the sensation of some quest remains (the figurative expression of A. Vorokh, the author of the article on the exam in the Trv-hunger, No. 232); In the stagnant years they said “hooking”, in imperial - “Byzantium”.

Indeed, it refers to the advantages of olympiads on admission. In one place - without a competition, in another - up to 25 points for the exam, in the third - 100 points instead of the exam in a profile item and vaguely about the list of accounts taken into account. It is hoped that in the near future the misunderstanding will be dispelled. Why did the question of privileges now arise, because our Olympics, which have no analogues in the world, hit 80 years (they began in that same 1934 and volume 1937)?

This summer, at the best universities, the Olympiads took the lion's share of the places from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (and somewhere in general everything). Recall the history of the issue. The enrollment of the winners of the Olympiads to universities outside the competition and without entrance exams was established in Soviet times and concerned only candidates for the country's national teams for the UNESCO International Olympiads. The explanation for this is completely simple: the time for entrance exams was during the period of the Olympiads themselves and preparatory training camps for them; At the training camp, there were before a dozen schoolchildren for each subject. And that's all! No invented advantages and benefits. Sometimes this was critical for some schoolchildren (including current academics!), Which could not do the usual way due to subjective reasons characteristic of those times.

In modern Russia, the practice of enrolling the Olympiads to universities was formed as a meaningful and reasonable reaction to the exam. Indeed, the first years of the existence of the Unified State Examination “became famous” for the incredible level of corruption, in itself the test form of testing the level of knowledge was perceived as a biased one. Leading universities built their forms of defense from the exam: an additional specialized and full -fledged exam at the Moscow State University and HSE, a traditional interview in the IFTI (many were surprised by the Position of the Higher School of Economics - the source of all our pedagogical innovations of recent times). The flowering of the practice of enrolling the Olympiads bypassing the exams, perhaps, came to the Soros Olympiads - according to the results of the first of them, some leading universities gained up to half of the freshmen. There was no corruption in this: such an outcome was unexpected even for the organizers of the Olympics. The exam did not exist then, and the children from the hinterland for a trip to the capital and accommodation in it had no money.

What is the situation today? The defense of the exam was pierced by the Olympiads. The so -called federal level includes 67 Olympiads (last year there were more than 80) - they are mainly talking about them. What is the end? If the university does not go to additional tests (like St. Petersburg State University - in the interests of children from the hinterland), then the situation is deadly. An applicant with points above 300 (three stobal exam plus a medal and the TRP badge, for example) formally has no chance! We add that the Olympiads often receive additional advantages and benefits after enrolling in the university - for example, sponsors and even the best living conditions (which is important today). And it is also necessary to take into account that the university hosting the winners and winners of any Olympiad outside the competition is generally obliged to accept the winners and winners of all Olympiads of the same level outside the competition! Among the main Olympiads, there are also organized by groups of affiliated universities - in fact, this is a legalized bypass of the exam. Many Olympiads show quite good success in study, many (half) are still able to pass the exam.

There are completely exotic examples - a couple of our best physical schools easily established their own upper level Olympiad. It occurs interestingly: the children with a crowd flow into the audience and together solve their own teachers invented tasks. Then the diplomas are dismantled: who is the winner, who is the winner. And the same crowd is poured into our best universities. Surprisingly, in study and then at work they show excellent results (such teachers should generally give the right to recommends to the university - and not make unnecessary ceremonies in the form of Olympiads).

What is wrong with this? The point is not only that the Olympiads are really not able to pass an ordinary exam. If you look at the statistics of their performance at the university, then they often lose to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. In the parent and pedagogical community, the degree of closed data on the results of the exam causes bewilderment. There is a whole institution of pedagogical dimensions and even a thematic magazine-but it seems that the topic is more chosen by the missile and nuclear. But I want to know and compare such results in schools, regions, and teachers and methodologists - even on individual tasks. The reference to personal data is insolvent: the names of schoolchildren are not interesting to anyone except themselves and their parents, and they can be hidden. Information of this volume even throughout the country is comparable to data on sales of a small retail network and is easily processed by a confident analyst user.

How justified are any benefits for the Olympiads? Like two types of runners - sprinters and marathons, there are two categories of students. Some can quickly solve several non -standard tasks, others are able to pour over the book for a long time and systematically, even if the topic does not cause excitement. Obviously, both categories of students are needed, but in what ratio is a big question. Preparations for the exam, of course, are more responsible for the educational process in higher education.

Veterans of the Olympiad movement with bitterness learn that today there are firms - the organizers of the Olympiads, who, under the contract (officially!) With the parents of the student, are preparing for their Olympiad with a guarantee of a prize. And in the memory, the memories of many olympiads are still alive in which the organizers invested their own money and where there were no benefits (for example, the Krasnoyarsk Olympiads, the permanent organizer of which was Alexander Gorban, now a professor of the University of Lister in the UK).

Alexey Bronislavovich Sosinsky, vice-president of the Moscow Independent University, notes : “As soon as the question came to enter the free form of training at any university, it became obvious that negative consequences could not be avoided. Although corruption will find another loophole. ” Let such loopholes still do not concern the Olympiads. Moreover, at the sovereign level, attention to the Olympiads and creative competitions of youth is unprecedented!

What seems necessary today for the rehabilitation of the Olympiad movement? To deal with first-level olympiads, having answered a simple question: what is the performance of their winners and winners in the country's leading universities in comparison with the Unified State Register of Enterprises-at least in universities from candidates for the “5-100” list? Such data should be provided by the organizers of the Olympiads claiming to extend their status. And Rosobrnadzor is easy to check the information provided. And let's ask the Unified State Register of Legal Entities with high scores to post olympiad tasks. And finally, an analogue of the exam for bachelors at the level of basic courses has long risen (there is absolute confidence that we will experience shock from the results).

When preserving the entire species diversity of our Olympiads, it would be worth giving a special status of the traditional All -Russian Olympiad of schoolchildren as a federal without any levels. As for the benefits when entering universities, it is enough to add some points or have a separate competition, as for disabled people or orphans. At the same time, you should not get involved in some benefits at the same time -something in high school is becoming more and more disabled people and the departure of children under the care of relatives.

Speaking about the enrollment of the Olympiads by bypassing the exams, I would like to at least retroactively find out who was eliminated from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, whose places of the Olympiads selected, and what is the further fate of those and others. And at the same time compare them with state employees. However, when trying to arrange the analysis of flights, you do not need to tighten the regime of the Olympiads. It is necessary to check the results - performance in universities.

Alexander Denisenko