FIPI named typical mistakes of Unified State Examination participants in literature in 2026

MOSCOW, September 30 - RIA Novosti. Typical mistakes of participants in the Unified State Exam in Literature in 2026 were, in particular, the substitution of literary terms with commonly used words, as well as the use of concepts from modern colloquial speech or other sciences and arts, follows from the methodological recommendations of FIPI, which RIA Novosti reviewed.

FIPI has published methodological recommendations for teachers, prepared based on an analysis of typical mistakes of participants in the 2026 Unified State Examination.

According to the document, in 2026, the Unified State Examination tasks in literature with a short answer, as in previous years, were generally successfully completed by examinees. The average percentage of assignments completed is 72.5%.

Typical mistakes in short-answer tasks include failure to distinguish between terminology and commonly used concepts, and the assumption of unfounded synonymous substitutions, when a literary term is replaced by commonly used vocabulary. For example, USE participants wrote “book” instead of “novel,” “dispute” and “clash” instead of “conflict,” as well as “detail” or “element” instead of “detail,” and so on.

Typical mistakes include the unreasonable use of concepts and expressions from modern colloquial speech or the Internet (“epic” in the meanings of “important”, “significant”, “significant”), as well as the substitution of terminological concepts (“detail”, “description” instead of “portrait” or “landscape”).

Moreover, participants may have unreasonably used “showy” terminology borrowed from other sciences and arts (“discourse” instead of “discussion”, “psychoanalysis” instead of “psychologism”).