Today, over 700,000 Russian school leavers have started taking their Unified State Exams, reports
RIA«Novosti».
The USEs are conducted in every Russian region including Crimea and Sevastopol and about 6,000 sites where the exams are held have been arranged. USEs in literature and geography are the first exams school leavers are to challenge. According to the Rosobrnadzor, about 60,000 school leavers are taking a Unified State Exam in literature and about 30,000 ones are taking their exam in geography.
The USEs are to have been over by June 20 but July 22 and July 30 are additional dates when one can take their Unified State Exams if they could not do that on the basis of valid excuses at the officially fixed dates.
Exams in such subjects as the Russian language and mathematics are compulsory ones so they are going to be taken by all this year’s school leavers.
About half of Russian school leavers are going to take social studies exam. A bit over ¼ of them are taking a USE in physics, 23% of them are taking a USE in history, and 21% of them are taking a USE in biology. The USE in geography is not very popular among school leavers and only 4% of them are going to take it.
Yesterday, school students of the 9th grade started taking their exams, too. The Final Certifying Examinations started on May 26 and finish on July 13. Over 1,000,000 school students are taking them this year.
