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Country
Facts
Elementary
Education
- Lower Secondary Education
Higher
Education
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- LOWER
SECONDARY EDUCATION
- Structure:
- Lower secondary education is represented by grades four
(IV)
through (IX).
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- Age of Admission:
- Age ten
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- Length:
- Six years
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- Programme
of Study:
- The study programme for grades 4 through 9
- Subject
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- Average weekly hours
Grade
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- IV
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- V
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- VI
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- VII
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- VIII
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- IX
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- Russian Language
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- 3
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- 3
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- 3
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- 3
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- 3
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- 3
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- Languages and Literature
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- 4
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- 8
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- 8
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- 6
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- 5
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- 5
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- Arts
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- 2
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- 2
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- 2
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- 2
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- 2
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- -
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- Social Studies
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- -
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- 2
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- 2
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- 2
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- 3
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- 4
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- Natural Sciences
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- 2
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- 2
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- 3
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- 6
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- 8
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- 8
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- Mathematics
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- 4
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- 5
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- 5
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- 5
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- 4
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- 5
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- Physical Training
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- 2
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- 2
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- 2
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- 2
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- 2
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- 2
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- Technology
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- 2
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- 2
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- 2
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- 2
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- 3
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- 3
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- Additional compulsory classes
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- 5
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- 3
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- 3
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- 4
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- 2
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- 3
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- Total
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- 24
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- 29
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- 30
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- 32
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- 32
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- 33
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- Optional classes
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- 3
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- 3
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- 3
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- 3
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- 3
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- 3
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- Total
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- 27
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- 32
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- 33
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- 35
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- 35
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- 36
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- Assessment and
Promotion:
- Students are regularly assessed throughout lower
secondary school through coursework, examinations, projects, and oral
presentations.
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- Final certification in grade 9 is in the form of oral
and written examinations. Four
subjects are considered; two of them (Russian language and mathematics) are
compulsory and two, are chosen by the student. The written exam is given in
the Russian language and the mother tongue, if applicable. In grade 9, the
student can choose between a composition, a reproduction with elements of a
composition, or a dictation. The written examination in mathematics is
conducted on the basis of the curriculum studied from nationally established
textbooks.
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- Graduates of the ninth grade of a general educational
establishment with State accreditation, who have been allowed to participate
in the final examination and have passed it, receive a Certificate of Basic
General Education (also known as the Certificate of Incomplete Secondary
Education). This is the decision of the pedagogical council of the general
educational establishment. Grade 9 students that have failed to master
general educational programmes, or failed to pass the final examination, do
not receive any certificate.
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- Grading Scale:
- Students are assessed using a grading scale from one to
five; five is the highest grade and three, the lowest passing grade.
- Number
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- Russian
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- Translation
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- WES
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- 5
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- Otlichno
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- excellent
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- A
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- 4
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- Khorosho
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- Good
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- B
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- 3
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- Udovletvoritel’no
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- Satisfactory
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- C
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- 1-2
- (not shown)
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- Neudovletvoritel’no
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- unsatisfactory
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- F
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