Changes have been made to the final Russian language interview. The…
Changes have been made to the final Russian language interview. The final Russian language interview is an oral exam for 9th-grade students, serving as a prerequisite for the OGE.
Consensus
- The final oral examination in Russian language for 9th grade students has been updated.
- The number of tasks in the oral exam has been reduced from four to three.
- The detailed text retelling has been removed and replaced with a text-based discussion.
- The time for text preparation has increased from two to five minutes.
- The total time for the oral exam remains unchanged at 15–16 minutes.
- The maximum primary score for the oral exam has decreased from 20 to 17.
- The scoring system for the essay has been revised, increasing the maximum score from 37 to 38.
- The requirements for the essay now include explaining examples taken from the text.
- Changes have been made to the OGE in history and social studies.
- The changes align the exams with new state textbooks, federal educational standards, and the federal educational program.
- A supplementary section listing required textbook paragraphs has been added to the demo versions.
- One high-complexity task has been removed from the history exam, reducing the total number of tasks from 24 to 23 and the maximum primary score from 37 to 35 in history, and from 24 to 20 tasks with a score drop from 37 to 32 in social studies, with some task order changes in social studies as well.
Points of divergence
- The new model of the oral exam was successfully tested in regions during spring 2026. — vm
- The Ministry of Education will change the curriculum for senior high school classes, introducing a new educational standard effective September 1, 2027, allowing students to study all subjects at a basic level instead of requiring two subjects at an advanced level. — vm
- The Ministry of Education stated that there are no plans to make the tasks in the Unified State Exam (EGE) more difficult. — vesti
- The public and professional discussion of the published materials is open until September 30, 2026, with submissions accepted at fipi@fipi.ru. — m24
- The head of the Ministry of Education, Sergey Kravtsov, stated that no major changes are expected in the EGE-2027 and that many people are concerned about exam tasks. — m24
Coverage (5 sources)
- Changes were made to the final Russian language interview for ninth graders — Вечерняя Москва
- Changes made to the final interview for Russian language — Вести
- Changes made to the final Russian language interview. The number of tasks will be reduced from four to three, and a detailed retelling of the text will be replaced by a conversation about the read text. — ТАСС (Telegram)
- Rosobrnadzor and Fipi spoke about changes in OGE-2027: — РИА Новости (Telegram)
- Changes made to the final interview for Russian language for 9th grade — Москва 24