Foreign language tests will be canceled in Russian schools

Starting from the next academic year, Russian schools will no longer conduct All-Russian Tests in foreign languages. This was stated by the head of Rosobrnadzor Anzor Muzaev. Work in other subjects will remain, but the procedure for conducting it in 11th grade may change.

“We will definitely no longer conduct educational training in foreign languages. This is a consolidated decision, made,” Mr. Muzaev said during a meeting with parents in the press center of the Rossiya Segodnya media group (quote from “RIA News”). VPRs have been taking place in Russian schools since 2015 among students in grades 4-8 and 10-11. In 2023, work was carried out from March 1 to May 20.

Anzor Muzaev added that in the future it is planned to change the model of transition to the 10th grade, as well as admission to secondary vocational education institutions. According to him, the current model, “in terms of the number of exams” and “in terms of approaches,” does not meet modern requirements. He did not provide other details.

In the new academic year, Rosobrnadzor will use a neural network to check USE work from all regions to identify violations. “The final decision is not made by the neural network, it only records, puts tags, and a human moderator looks at the tags and gives the final verdict whether there really was a phone or a cheat sheet or not,” explained Mr. Muzaev.

In the spring Anzor Muzaev saidthat the Unified State Examination does not plan to introduce changes in the next 10 years. According to him, there is no alternative to the Unified State Exam yet.

Lusine Balasyan