Schools plan to introduce an oral history exam format for ninth-graders in 2028

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Schools plan to introduce an oral history exam format for ninth-graders in 2028.

An oral response will assess the student’s mastery of the material and ability to express thoughts logically and clearly.

The modern school curriculum in history is aimed at identifying the patterns of the historical process and working with sources.

MOSCOW, September 7 - RIA Novosti. The oral format of the history exam for ninth-graders, which is planned to be introduced in schools in 2028, will assess the mastery of the material and the student’s ability to logically and clearly express thoughts, said the vice-rector, director of the Institute of History and Social Sciences of the Russian State Pedagogical University. A.I. Herzen, professor Roman Sokolov.

“An oral answer (in a history exam for ninth-graders - ed.) allows you to assess the mastery of the material and the student’s ability to logically and clearly express thoughts. The “pass/fail” grade does not imply differentiation. The competitive component is excluded, so there are no reasons for overestimating or understating grades. This is only admission to the State Academic Examination,” Sokolov said, as quoted by the university press service.

The professor noted that the modern school history curriculum is far from rote memorization of dates. A unified line of textbooks and special methodological training for teachers should teach schoolchildren to identify the patterns of the historical process.

“The basics of working with sources is also part of the modern lesson. Excerpts from documents are included directly in textbooks, so the necessary basis in school education has been created in recent years,” he emphasized.