THE PROGRAMS OF ENTRANCE EXAMS AND THE RULES OF EXAMS PROCEDURE
THE PROGRAMS OF ENTRANCE EXAMS
AND THE RULES OF EXAMS PROCEDURE
1. GENERAL NOTES
1. The entrance exams to AMSU are organized to find out about the abilities the applicants have to study the programs of higher professional education within the limits of state educational standards.
2. The entrance exams to AMSU are held in the following forms:
• Interview
• Written exams
• Testing
• Creative tasks
Written exams as well as testing are conducted on the basis of model programs of secondary (complete) general education subjects developed by Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation.
3. The exams of all forms except the interview are conducted by subject committees. The interviews are held by interview committees. All these committees are appointed by the rector of AMSU.
4. The dates and the time of entrance exams are made up according to the schedule which is agreed upon among the chairs of subject committees and then it is confirmed by the admission committee chairperson. The schedule is then placed on the information board.
5. The entrance exams of all forms and types are held at the participation and under control of AMSU admission committee.
6. The exam attendance by applicants.
The applicant has to come to the exam at the time and date pointed in the schedule.
That attendant who missed the entrance exam without a serious excuse is not allowed to pass any other exams and to take part in the enrollment on competitive grounds.
Those applicants who did not come to the exam because of a serious excuse and who have all the necessary documents proving the excuse are allowed to pass the missed exam by the decision that the admission committee makes on the basis of a written statement. The written statement should have the reason explaining why the person missed the exam and the document confirming the serious excuse.
The serious excuses of the entrance exam missing can be:
• The illness of an applicant (which is proved by the certificate about the illness given by the state medical institution attested with the stamp of the institution);
• Emergency (which is proved by the certificate of a state organization that fixed the fact of this emergency).
Those who did not arrive at entrance exams because of a serious excuse and submitted all the necessary documents are allowed to pass the exams in the parallel groups or individually. After the dates have expired there are no entrance exams and no claims are accepted.
7. The second participation in one and the same entrance exam is not allowed. Those applicants who do not agree with the given grade have the right to make an appeal if there are no other peculiarities of exam taking.
8. The interview is estimated on the basis of a two-mark system: «passed», «didn’t pass». There are no appeals against the interview.
2. GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS OF ENTRANCE EXAMS PROCEDURE
9. Regardless of the type of the entrance exam the admission committee makes everyone follow the rules and regulations of the exam procedure.
10. The preparation for the entrance exam includes:
. Forming of tasks bank upon all the subjects (majors) and forms of testing;
. Making up the variants of exam tasks and their copying;
. Forming of packets with variants of exam tasks for the rooms where the exam takes place;
. Sending applicants to the exam rooms;
. The instruction of examiners before exams, their appointment to a particular exam room, getting the packets with variants of exam tasks;
. Preparation of the room for exams.
Forming of tasks bank upon the subjects (majors) is carried out by the chairs of subject committees by the order of an admission committee chairperson who defines and controls the following:
. dates, order and conditions of subject committees chairs work while forming the tasks bank;
. the number of tasks in the bank upon each subject and the level of their difficulty.
Subject committees chairs hand in the tasks banks to the admission committee executive secretary.
The admission committee chairperson controls:
. the number of tasks variants and their difficulty;
. the place where they are kept;
. the dates, those who are responsible for tasks making up, the order and conditions of variants copying.
Forming of packets with variants of exam tasks for the exam rooms according to the number of seats is done not later than a day by a subject committee chairperson or an admission committee executive secretary. The formed packets are glued, stamped and kept at the place of the admission committee chairperson.
The chairperson of the subject committee is responsible for the subject committee members attending the exam. Before the exam itself the chairperson of the subject committee or the admission committee executive secretary decides which exam room each member of the committee should go to.
The examiners are instructed and given the packets with variants of exam tasks not earlier than 20 minutes before the beginning of the exam by the admission committee executive secretary. At handing out a serious attention is paid to the fact whether the packets are in good condition.
The preparation of the room for the exam is done by the technician secretary of the admission committee. The preparation is mainly about checking whether there are any strange things, books, cribs that are not allowed during the exam.
11. The admittance into the examination area and order administration.
The admittance into the examination area, exam rooms and order administration at the area during entrance exams are provided by security workers.
At the time of entrance exams the admittance into the examination area by a special pass is allowed only:
. to the chairperson and the deputy chief of the admission committee;
. to members of the admission committee;
. to executive secretary and deputy executive secretary of the admission committee;
. to the chairs and members of subject committees;
. to the technician secretary of the admission committee.
During entrance exams people without a special pass are forbidden to enter the area of exams conducting.
At the time of entrance exams the admittance into exams rooms besides applicants is allowed:
. to the chairperson and the deputy chief of the admission committee;
. to executive secretary and deputy executive secretary of the admission committee;
. to the chairperson of a corresponding subject committee;
. to members of the subject committee appointed to conduct the exam in this room.
12. The admittance of applicants into examination area.
The admittance of applicants into examination area is possible when they show their passports and examination lists.
If the applicant is late for the exam for less than an hour, he / she can take the exam, but the time for the task is not prolonged and he / she is warned about it beforehand.
At the title-page of the examination list of the person being late for the exam the examiner makes a mark about the time he / she starts taking the exam:
| Requirements to applicants’ works | Reduced number of points in case the work does not meet the requirement |
| Composition | 10 |
| Character and proportions of the object | 10 |
| Constructional and anatomical forms features detection | 20 |
| Plastic features | 5 |
| Light and air perspective and space | 5 |
| Arrangement on the surface and a model’s moving | 15 |
| Volume and form of the model | 15 |
| Use of colour tones | 10 |
| Aesthetic impression | 10 |
3. THE PECULIARITIES OF ENTRANCE EXAMS PROCEDURE
MATHEMATICS
240 minutes can be spent to complete the task.
Every examination card includes 6 tasks.
All the tasks that have been done correctly are given 100 grades.
The task is considered to be done correctly if its solution is presented in a detailed manner with all the necessary calculations, conclusions and with the right letter and numeral answer.
To do the task the applicants may use calculators and drawing tools.
PHYSICS
240 minutes can be spent to complete the task.
The applicants may use calculators and drawing tools. Reference books are not allowed. The applicants may use all the necessary numeral data of table values for calculations.
Every examination card includes 5 tasks. The maximum number of grades is 100.
The task is considered to be done correctly if it has a short note of the task specification, the analysis, schemes and calculations, and also the answer. The explanation must be short but full. There must be a drawing a) in tasks in which vector values and their projections are used; b) at the use of trigonometric relations, angles and so on; c) in the tasks upon electrical circuits and geometric optics. The drawing can also be given if it helps to understand the reasoning of the applicant. If there is no drawing, the grade gets lower.
All the notes especially formulas must be clear and legible. The task is not checked if the formulas can not be read one way only.
The grade gets lower if there are some not significant mistakes. If there are some significant mistakes, the task is considered to be done incorrectly and does not get any grades.
HISTORY
The entrance exam in history is conducted in the form of a written test.
90 minutes can be spent to complete the task.
The test includes 25 questions. Each question has at least 4 answers. The test has questions of two types:
• the question with the answers from which an applicant has to choose only one correct answer;
• the question with the answers from which an applicant has to choose several correct answers and it is necessary to choose all the correct answers. The questions of this type have the note «choose all the correct answers».
The applicant marks the correct answer by circling the number of the correct answer. No corrections are possible in the test. If the answer is still corrected, it is considered to be wrong any way.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
The entrance exam in social sciences is conducted in the form of a written test.
90 minutes can be spent to complete the task.
The test includes 20 questions. Each question has 3 answers.
The applicant marks the correct answer by circling its number. No corrections are possible in the test. If the answer is still corrected, it is considered to be wrong any way.
Each correct answer gets 5 grades.
BIOLOGY
The entrance exam in biology is conducted in the form of a written test.
90 minutes can be spent to complete the task.
The test includes 25 questions, placed at A and B parts. Part A has 20 questions upon the basics of biology; part B has 5 questions which include schemes, figures, and graphics reflecting the peculiarities of some organs or organ systems building as well the processes typical for living beings of a different level of organization. Each question of part A has 3 answers from which an applicant has to choose only one correct answer. While doing part B the applicant should follow the instruction given to the task.
The applicant marks the correct answer by circling its number. No corrections are possible in the test. If the answer is still corrected, it is considered to be wrong any way.
Each correct answer gets 4 grades.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
The entrance exam in foreign language is conducted in the form of a written test.
120 minutes can be spent to complete the task. The test consists of two parts:
1. Reading. This part includes 3 tasks:
- the first task consists of 6 short texts. It is necessary to choose the correct title for the text;
- the second task has 6 statements and one, or two or three texts. The applicant has to match the statement with the text;
- the third part has quite a big text. It is necessary to answer 7 questions upon the contents of the text, choosing the correct answer out of the four.
2. Grammar and vocabulary. This part includes 4 tasks:
- the first task has the text with 8 gaps. The word given in bold corresponds to the gap. The applicant has to fill in the gaps with the correct form of the word;
- the second task has a text and 7 gaps. The applicant has to fill in the gaps with the correct word derived from the words in bold;
- the third task has a text with 8 gaps. It is necessary to fill in the gaps and choose the correct answer out of the four;
- the fourth task contains lexical and grammatical test. The applicant has to choose the correct answer out of 3 or 4 variants.
The total number of grades is 100.
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE (for citizens having secondary (complete) general education completed before January, 1st, 2009 – enrolling in correspondence (evening) tuition; having secondary vocational training – enrolling in undergraduate courses (bachelor’s degree) and specialists programs (licentiate) of a corresponding specialization; having secondary (complete) general education got at educational institutions of foreign states)
The entrance exam in the Russian language is done in the form of a test.
While writing the test the applicant has to demonstrate good knowledge of orthographic and punctuation rules as well as of the norms of the Russian language.
120 minutes can be spent to complete the test.
The work consists of a title-page and individual list that includes one of the variants of the exam work.
Each variant has 25 tasks which are given 4 grades for each correct task. The total number of grades for the test is 100.
In the task only one answer can be correct.
The correct answer is circled. No corrections are possible in the test. If the answer is still corrected, it is considered to be wrong any way.
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE (for disabled people)
The entrance exam is carried out in the form of dictation.
While writing dictation the applicant has to demonstrate good knowledge of orthographic and punctuation rules of the Russian language.
60 minutes can be spent to write the dictation.
The work consists of a title-page and individual paper where the applicant writes the dictation read to him by the examiner.
The dictation text is read thrice. The first time the whole text is read very slowly, the second time the examiner reads it sentence by sentence, the third time it is read quite fast.
The dictation consists of about 350 words.
If the dictation is written without any orthographic or punctuation marks it is given 100 grades. Every orthographic or punctuation mistake is estimated 5 grades from the total 100.
The corrections are possible by crossing out the wrong variant and writing the correct answer above. Three corrections are considered to be one mistake and lower the total number by 5 grades.
LITERATURE
The entrance exam in literature is done in written form.
180 minutes can be spent to do the task.
The tasks of the exam correspond to the programs of secondary (complete general education).
There are 20 tasks which are divided into three parts: A, B, and C. A part includes questions upon history and theory of literature, B and C parts consist of the tasks upon poetic or prosaic fragment analysis.
In A part which has 10 tasks the applicant chooses the correct answer by circling. In B and C parts that have 5 tasks the answer should be written in the special place in the exam form. The answer must be short and include a word or a combination of several words. No corrections are possible in the task. If the answer is still corrected, it is considered to be wrong any way.
The total grade upon the whole task is 100. The applicant gets 5 grades for each correct answer.
4. INTERVIEW PROCEDURE
1. The interview has its aim to check erudition and professional orientation of applicants. The interview programs are confirmed by the chairperson of the admission committee, the chairperson of the subject committee and by the dean of the faculty.
2. The executive secretary responsible for the documents submission at the faculty gives the interview committee a personal file of the applicant.
3. The applicants going through the interview have to show some ID document.
4. At the interview the applicant can be asked only the questions confirmed in the interview program.
5. During the interview the minutes are kept. There the examiners put down the questions and general characteristic of the applicants answers.
The minutes are shown to the applicant which he / she signs and puts the date.
After this the interview committee writes the conclusion which is written down in the examination list and minutes.
6. If the applicant has passed the interview, the committee makes a decision to enroll the applicant.
7. Appeals against the interview are not considered.
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