Participants in the Unified State Exam 2026 in the Russian language often made spelling errors

Participants in the Unified State Exam 2026 in the Russian language often made mistakes in the spelling of roots, prefixes and suffixes.

Errors were made in the spelling -н- and -нн-, “not” and “ni”, endings of nouns, adjectives, numerals and verbs, prepositions and other words.

The difficulty was caused by the combined, separate, hyphenated spelling of words of different parts of speech.

MOSCOW, September 16 – RIA Novosti. Participants in the Unified State Exam 2026 in the Russian language often made mistakes in the spelling of roots, prefixes and suffixes, in particular, graduates wrote “mentioned”, “help”, “create”, “priceless”, “dalia”, “teplatoy”, it follows from the methodological recommendations of FIPI, which RIA Novosti reviewed.

FIPI began publishing methodological recommendations for teachers, prepared on the basis of an analysis of typical mistakes of participants in the 2026 Unified State Exam.

According to the document, despite the fairly high level of spelling of the detailed answer, there are frequent spelling errors in the works of participants in the Unified State Exam 2026 in the Russian language. Among them, for example, are errors in the spelling of vowels and consonants. Thus, the participants wrote “mentioned”, “expression”, “lagirey”, “periud”, “sends off”, “help”, “mentality”.

Difficulties were also caused by the spelling of prefixes and the letters “ы”, “and” after prefixes (“overcome”, “acquires”, “to create”, “priceless”), the spelling of suffixes (“dalia”, “teplatoy”, “valuable”), the use of “b” in verbs and verbal forms (“deciding to stay”, “everyone likes to fall”, “wants to refuse”).

In addition, the participants made mistakes in the spelling -н- and -нн- in words of various parts of speech ("given", "life", "dedication", "said"), in the spelling of not and nor ("did not perform well", "did not give up", "the guy who did not serve", "not fully"), the spelling of the endings of nouns, adjectives, numerals and verbs ("about a good attitude", "service in army", "experience in communication", "at meetings").

Mistakes were made in the spelling of prepositions and other words (“at the conclusion of your essay,” “during the year,” “as a result”). The difficulty was caused by the continuous, separate, hyphenated spelling of words of different parts of speech ("further", "quietly", "truly important", "came to the countryside").