Future pharmacists, doctors and agronomists are preparing for the USE-2017 in biology. The subject is quite popular, as it is necessary for admission to many humanitarian universities. Therefore, the closer March 2017 approaches, the more excitement around state testing in biology becomes. In the review, we will analyze the main structure of CMMs, innovations known to date and training materials that will help prepare for the state exam. All this will help the children to adequately meet the realities of the biology exam.

the date of the

The early round traditionally starts in March, and the main round will fall in June.

• The early stage is March 22.
• The main period is June 15th.
• Backup windows are April 5, June 21 and 30.

The main changes in the exam in biology 2017

If for the most part in other subjects there are no innovations and are not planned, then biology has undergone quite serious changes. Here is a list of them:

• the exam duration has increased - 210 minutes instead of the previous 180;
• the number of questions has been reduced from 40 to 28;
• tasks with one answer have practically disappeared;
• the maximum primary score has been reduced - now it is equal to 59, not 61;
• a new kind of questions has appeared, requiring work with illustrations, diagrams and graphs.

What does the new structure of KIM in biology look like?

To understand the structure of the control and measuring material, let's turn to the demo version of the USE in biology 2017.

The first block of the CMM includes 21 tasks, each of which requires a short answer in the form of a few numbers or one or more words. The questions are pretty simple. To cope with them, you need to know the basics of biology. For example, task number 3 will require you to name the number of sperm in fish, and two columns in question number 5 - to establish a correspondence between the processes and stages of energy metabolism. Interestingly, questions 3, 4, 9, 12, 20, 21 have two options. Therefore, the subject will be able to choose the version of the task that seems the easiest to him. For those who seek to get the maximum points on the exam in biology, FIPI has prepared a complex block of tasks consisting of 7 questions. They will require not only an answer, but also a detailed explanation to them. In other words, the examinee must state his train of thought on paper and provide detailed arguments in favor of his decision. Only the most prepared high school students and applicants will be able to cope with such questions.

Evaluation Criteria for the Unified State Exam in Biology 2017

There are no exact criteria yet. It is only known that the maximum primary score cannot be higher than 59, and the number of minimum points that the test subject must score to successfully pass the test work is 36.

Points are earned by successfully completing test items. Here's what the maximum "reward" for questions looks like:

• 1 point: 1, 3, 6;
• 2 points: 2, 4, 5, 7 - 22;
• 3 points: 23 - 28.

For errors or incomplete answers in questions 2, 4, 5, 7 - 28 points may be reduced.

Afterword

This is how a brief excursion into the realities of the unified exam in biology looks like. The number of tasks has decreased significantly, testing has become much more interesting, and the time to work has increased by half an hour. Possession of this information will help future high school graduates and applicants to adequately prepare for the Unified State Exam!

The exam in biology 2018 is an optional exam, it is completely optional. At the same time, this subject takes 5th place after the obligatory Russian language and mathematics, then social studies and physics. 5th place - for biology (it is chosen by about 18% of graduates).

Where does biology come in handy?

Biology is passed in many universities:

1. medical;
2. biological universities;
3. in the pedagogical department for the specialty "Teacher of Biology";
4. in agricultural;
5. veterinary;
6. at the Faculty of Physical Education;
7. psychological;
8. ecological;
9. at the Faculty of Garden Design;
10. at the Faculty of Biology in technical universities, where biology is studied at the interface with physics.

There are a lot of professions related to biology:

• an engineer who simulates problems associated with human life;
• a doctor who will deal with the treatment of diseases that are possible in the future;
• an ecologist who cares about the health of the whole country. The task of the ecologist is to create conditions in which mankind will drink clean water, breathe clean air;
• psychologist;
• athlete.

These are the people who make a person's life more fulfilling and meaningful and, moreover, prolong this life.

Required documents

The FIPI website contains the following documents required to prepare for the exam in history:

1. Specification (a description of the work, the necessary documents are listed, the structure of the exam in biology is reflected, a plan of the KIM version is given).
2. Codifier (a list of skills and topics that are tested on the exam in biology).
3. Demo version of the USE in biology (one version of the USE in biology), with which you need to start preparing for the state exam in history.

Features of the structure of the exam in biology

Total 28 tasks
Part 1 Part 2
21 tasks with a short answer 7 tasks with a detailed answer

The time to complete all the work is 3 hours 30 minutes (210 minutes).
The maximum primary score is 59.
The established minimum test score for the exam in biology is 36 points.

How are the key tasks of part 1 of the work arranged?

Task # 1 first appeared in 2017. Each student, preparing for the exam, reads the text, underlines the keywords, then finds the keywords and connections between them. These connections make it possible to build dependency. Thus, the text is structured, it contains connections between concepts. In this task, a certain fragment from biology is presented, where it is required to show these connections.

Task number 3 is interesting in that ordinary simple tasks have been introduced, where it is required to complete a solution, knowing biology:

• count the number of chromosomes,
• indicate the number of cells that are formed during various processes, etc.

Task number 4 requires you to choose two statements that correspond to the description of the object that is presented.
Task number 6 on genetics. These are problems for monohybrid crossing, where it is required to write a specific number, the ratio of numbers.
Task number 8 on the ratio of examples and phenomena. This is the first example of an assignment. An alternative example of this task is also offered, where a blind drawing (without signatures) is given, and you need to find positions where there are numbers 1 and 2. And only after that, having decided on the position, select the correct answers.
In task number 9, you should find examples from the proposed text that correspond to the concept of "resistance", "microscopicity" and "pathogenicity".
Task number 15 on the knowledge of species properties. In biology, the concept of "species" is the key concept around which all biology is built. Given text. It is necessary to select only those criteria that correspond to the task set in the text.

Task number 20. A new (since 2017), original task, which makes it possible to check several very important, key concepts in biology using one example.

• Example 1 tests the understanding of speciation.

Example 2 involves filling in free columns in the table and finding some relationships between the structure, object and function.

Task number 21.

• Example 1. Formation of natural science literacy and research skills is possible only when a person is able to work with information presented in various forms. In biology, for example, such information is a table where a scientist, observing, fixes data, writes them down, making a certain calculation. The applicant needs to read what is noted here, as a biologist reads it, who chooses key figures from a stockade of numbers and builds conclusions on this basis. You need to select only 2 statements that strictly correspond to the given conditions.
• Example 2 requires the selection of statements that can be formulated based on the analysis of the histogram. For example, you need to find species, see what they eat, encrypt this species (how to depersonalize) and propose the ratio of food addictions of this species. And then it is necessary to evaluate this species, based on its eating habits or some other qualities.
• Example 3 is a graphical representation. It tests the ability to read the graph and understand the reasons for the movement of the curve up or down.

A few words about part 2

These are tasks in an open form, where the graduate will have to answer a question and demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the subject. Particular attention should be paid to the language of the answer. A 11th grade student must own a certain conceptual apparatus, biological terms used in answers to tasks.

What will help to effectively help pass the exam in biology?

Of course, the textbooks used in schools. These can be textbooks by different authors that can be combined.

Clear planning of your activities in preparation for the exam in biology 2018.

Deep interest of the student in the study and delivery of the subject for a high score.

You need to be motivated, you need to want to study the subject of biology, and then the result will not be long in coming.

The date of the exam in biology will be known in January 2018.

You can find out about the results of the USE in biology in 2018 in your educational organization or on the official website of the USE.

If the Ministry of Education decides to make any changes to the CMMs of the USE in biology, then you need to be ready for everything, not waste time and start preparing now!

Each graduate who wants to become a student of one of the universities of the Russian Federation in 2018 has a difficult task - to successfully pass the Unified State Exam, as well as to choose the right educational institution and faculty for submitting documents. Most 11th graders and their parents are faced with the final exam grading system for the first time and often find it difficult to find answers to the questions that arise. Therefore, we decided to shed some light on important points.

In 2017-2018, the basic rules for passing the exam will not be significantly changed. This means that for graduates, the 100-point grading system for final tests will also be relevant.

How is it going?

During the examination of the examination papers, for each correctly completed task, the graduate is credited with the so-called "primary points", which upon completion of the examination of the work are summed up and transferred to the "test score", which is indicated in the USE certificate.

Important! Since 2009, the scale of transferring the primary and test scores of the USE into the traditional school five-point grades has not been officially used, because in 2017 and 2018 the final exams are not included in the certificate.

Verification of work is carried out in two ways:

• automatically (using special programs and technical means);
• manually (the correctness of the detailed answers is checked by two independent experts).

It is quite difficult to dispute the result of an automatic check. If, when filling out the answer table, the basic rules were not followed, the computer may not protect the result, and only the graduate himself will be to blame for this, who has not followed a number of mandatory rules.

If controversial points arise during the expert review, a third specialist is involved, whose opinion will be decisive.

When to expect results?

The following time frames apply by law:

• data processing (on compulsory subjects) in the RSCI should not last longer than 6 calendar days;
• for data processing (optional subjects), the RCRO is given 4 days;
• verification at the Federal Testing Center should take no more than 5 business days;
• approval of the results by the State Examination Commission - 1 more day;
• up to 3 days for sending the results to the USE participants.

In practice, it can take from 8 to 14 days from the moment of passing the exam to receiving the official result.

Converting USE scores into grades

Despite the fact that officially in 2018 the scale for converting points in USE subjects into a five-point assessment is not used, many still want to interpret their result in a more familiar "school" system. To do this, you can use special tables or online calculators.

Table for converting test scores of the OGE into grades

The second method is a little easier and more convenient than searching for the required values ​​in the cells of a huge table. It is enough just to select a subject (mathematics, Russian, chemistry, physics, history, English, social studies ... and other subjects), enter the data and get the desired result in a matter of seconds.

We suggest trying how simple and convenient it is to use in practice online calculators of the USE score and its translation into a 5-point grade.

Transfer of points from primary to test

Converting USE scores into grades

Internet systems for applicants

The 2017-2018 academic year is over, the exam has been passed, the results are known, and even the interactive scale for translating primary points showed that the USE result was in a fairly good range ... But is this enough to enter the desired university?

Assess your real chances of joining based on test scores and the university's minimum passing threshold.

Important! The minimum passing score is formed by the university itself. It will directly depend on the points of applicants who apply in 2018. The more popular the specialty, the higher the passing score will be.

Often, even 100-point results are not enough for admission to the budget at TOP faculties. Chances to see their surname in the lists of those who entered such directions are only for the prize-winners of the Olympiads, who give significant additional points.

In 2018, the most popular services for selecting a university and monitoring the threshold of entrance points for various specialties will be:

1. Ucheba.ru
2. Apply online
3. Higher School of Economics calculator
4. Postyplenie.ru
5. Typical applicant

Finding these services is very easy. It is enough to enter their name into any search engine.

There are a lot of professions related to biology. And if a graduate decided to devote his further life to medicine, psychology, pedagogy, food technology, pharmacology or agriculture, then an exam in biology at the end of a secondary school is mandatory for him. What will it be USE in biology 2017?

The state exam in biology in 2017 will be different from the exams of previous years. Not many changes have been made, but they are significant.

A new, more optimized structure of the examination work is proposed. Reduced the number of tasks to 28, compared to 40 in 2016. The maximum number of primary points for all work has been reduced, now it is 59 points, instead of 60 last year. But the amount of time to complete the examination work has been increased to 210 minutes, instead of 180.

The exam will no longer have single-correct-answer questions. In this regard, the probability of guessing is minimized. After all, before it was possible to connect intuition, pass the threshold and score the minimum allowable number of points. Now intuition is not our helper, we need knowledge. You will have to prepare carefully and start as early as possible. But there is good news as well. The difficulty of the tasks has not changed, and the time to complete them has increased by 30 minutes.

The exam paper of the USE in biology 2017 contains 28 tasks, consists of two parts, each of which has its own level of complexity and format.

First part of the exam

The first part consists of 21 tasks with a short answer. Moreover, the answers will need to be written in the form of words or phrases, numbers or a sequence of numbers, without spaces and separators.

The first part includes tasks of two levels of difficulty: 10 - basic level and 11 - advanced.

This format is the first innovation and a good reason for passing the demo version of the exam in biology 2017.

The second innovation in the content of the tasks. The graduate will need:

• analyze information in graphical or tabular form (1 task)
• supplement the missing information in the diagram and table (2 tasks)
• establish the sequence of systematic taxa, biological objects, phenomena, processes (3 tasks)
• solve biological problems in cytology and genetics (2 problems)
• perform tasks with multiple choice (7 tasks) and establish correspondences (6 tasks) with or without a picture

So, 21 tasks of a new type have significant differences and allow you to more accurately assess the knowledge of the material covered, and also require serious preparation.

Second part of the exam (increased difficulty)

The second part of the USE in biology 2017 is aimed at graduates with a high level of knowledge in the subject, or rather, at identifying them. There won't be any changes here. As in 2016, there will be 7 tasks, formed by types of educational activities and in accordance with the topics of the subject. Graduates write the answers to them independently in expanded form. There are also no changes in terms of difficulty: 1 task of the advanced level and 6 of the higher level.

In the second part, the graduate must independently explain and substantiate biological phenomena and processes, be able to analyze, systematize and integrate knowledge, and confirm the theory with practice. And all this should be correctly formulated in a detailed answer.

How is it assessed

The primary maximum number of points for the state exam in 2017 changed, but not significantly.

For completing 10 tasks of the basic level of difficulty, 17 points are given, for 12 tasks of an advanced level - 24 points, for 6 tasks of a high level - 18. In total - 59 points. for passing the exam in biology will be 36 points.

What you need to know

The exam involves testing the knowledge of the subject in full. And if something is missed, even for a good reason, this fact is not taken into account on the exam. Therefore, it is advisable for a future graduate to start preparing for already in September in order to have time to fill in all the gaps.

Biology knowledge testing will be carried out in the following sections:

• Biology as a Science. Methods of scientific knowledge
• Cell as a biological system
• The organism as a biological system
• System and diversity of the biological world
• The human body and its health
• The evolution of living nature
• Ecosystems and their inherent patterns

Use this list to test yourself and pull up overlooked topics.

What you need to be able to

At the exam in biology, it is also important to show your skills and abilities to use the knowledge gained. A graduate must correctly apply terminology, identify biological objects not only by description, but also by drawing. When explaining biological processes, a significant advantage will have those who use not only the word, but also tables, graphs, diagrams. Solve problems, draw conclusions and apply theoretical knowledge in practice, in everyday life.

Every year FIPI publishes an updated demo version of the Unified State Exam in Biology. A graduate has the opportunity to calmly deal with instructions, assignments, rules of conduct, assessment criteria, practically pass all stages of the exam. Of course, the demo version is not an exact copy of the USE, but, nevertheless, it allows the student to feel calmer and more confident when everything is going on for real.

In preparation for the exam in biology, each graduate must take into account his personal, individual characteristics. Everyone knows their strengths and weaknesses, memory capabilities, performance. Those who have not yet figured out this can turn to their parents and teachers for help. It is worth talking to those who have already taken the exam and get additional information first-hand. In a word, all the methods are good for preparation, the main thing is not to leave everything for May, not to hope for "maybe it will carry over", but to start systematically practicing right now.

Biology is one of the subjects that the graduate chooses on the exam himself. And if he makes a choice in favor of biology, then this science is to his liking. Therefore, all worries and worries must be left outside the door so as not to interfere. And take with you composure, confidence, remember everything and get the highest score.

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