Every year, many different Olympiads are held for schoolchildren of any schools in the Russian Federation, allowing students to show their knowledge and skills in subjects included in the list of programs of general educational institutions of the country. Participation in such events is considered a very prestigious and responsible task, in which schoolchildren demonstrate the knowledge accumulated over the years of study and defend their honor own school. If you win, you have the opportunity to earn some privilege for further admission to Russian universities and receive a small monetary reward.
Historical summary
For the first time, Russian educational authorities provided the opportunity for competition between young students back in 1886. In times of prosperity Soviet Union such a movement received additional impetus for further development. In the 60s of the last century, school Olympiads began to be held in almost every discipline related to the general education program of compulsory education. Initially, such competitions were more of an all-Russian scale, which in the future became all-Union.
To find out exactly what subjects such a competition will consist of in the future, all school Olympiads for 2017-2018 should be announced.
Present time
In the next academic year The best schoolchildren will be able to test their own knowledge in olympiads in several categories of disciplines.
1. Natural sciences: geography, physics, biology, chemistry, ecology and astronomy.
2. Humanities: history, social studies, economics and law.
3. Exact sciences: mathematics, computer science.
4. Philology: English, French, Chinese, Italian and Russian, as well as Russian literature.
5. Other disciplines: physical education, life safety, technology and world artistic culture.
In each of the listed disciplines, there are two blocks of tasks: a part aimed at finding practical skills and a part testing the theoretical basis of each participant.
The main stages of the Russian Olympiads
All-Russian Olympiad consists of organizing and further conducting 4 stages intellectual competition carried out at different levels. Representatives of regional educational institutions and schools determine the final schedule of each Olympiad and its location. Of course, the exact list of each competition for next year has not yet been compiled, but current applicants for participation should be guided by the following dates.
1. School stage. Competitions between rivals from the same educational application start almost at the beginning of the school year - September-October 2017. The Olympiads concern students of the same parallel, starting from the fifth grade. Members of the city-level methodological commission are responsible for developing tasks.
2. Municipal stage. The next stage at which competitions are held between the winners of the previous level of grades 7-11 from the same city. The duration of the Olympiad is December 2017-January 2018. The organizers of such an event are representatives of the educational sphere at the regional level, while officials are responsible for the place, time and procedure of the competition itself.
3. Regional stage. The next level of the All-Russian Olympiad, held in January-February. It is attended by schoolchildren who took leading places in similar competitions at the city level, as well as the winners of the regional selection of the past year.
4. All-Russian stage. The highest level of the subject Olympiad is organized by representatives of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation in March-April 2018. The winners of the regional Olympiad and the winners of the past year will be able to take part in it. The exception is schoolchildren who took 1st place, but are behind participants from other cities. The winners of the marked stage receive the right to participate in a similar competition international level, scheduled for next summer.
List of school Olympiads with their main features
Any school Olympiad consists of 3 main stages, each of which is characterized by distinctive properties. For example, the winners have a number of privileges over their opponents from the other two groups - the opportunity to enroll in the university on the basis of which the Olympiad itself was held. In this case, entrance exams for enrollment in the first year are canceled automatically. The winners or prize-winners of the 3rd stage in this sense do not have any concessions.
Today it is already known that the list of school Olympiads of the 1st level consists of the following areas and disciplines.
1. Lomonosov Olympiad, consisting of a huge number of different items.
2. “Nanotechnologies - a breakthrough into the future” - an all-Russian Olympiad for every interested student.
3. All-Siberian Chemistry Olympiad.
4. “Young talents” – geography.
5. Open Olympiad in programming.
6. Astronomy Olympiad for schoolchildren from St. Petersburg.
7. Open Olympiad “culture and art”.
8. All-Russian Economic Olympiad for schoolchildren named after N. D. Kondratiev in economics.
9. Moscow Olympiad in physics, mathematics, computer science.
The list of Level II Olympiads consists of the following areas.
1. Herzen Olympiad in foreign languages.
2. South Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren “Architecture and Art” with the following items: painting, drawing, composition and drawing.
3. Interregional Olympiad of MPGU in Law.
4. All-Siberian Open Olympiad in Informatics, Mathematics, Biology.
5. Interregional Olympiad “Highest Standard” in computer science, literature, history of world civilization and oriental studies.
6. Interregional Olympiad “Future Researchers – Future of Science” in Biology.
7. City Olympics open type in physics.
8. Interdisciplinary Olympiad named after V.I. Vernadsky in social studies and history.
9. Engineering Olympiad in physics.
10. Eurasian linguistic Olympiad in a foreign language at the interregional level.
The 2017-2018 Level III Olympics are represented by the following list of competitions.
1. “Mission accomplished. Your calling is a financier!” from economics.
2. Herzen Olympiad in geography, biology and pedagogy.
3. “In the beginning was the Word...” in history and literature.
4. All-Russian tournament of young physicists.
5. All-Russian Sechenov Olympiad in chemistry and biology.
6. All-Russian chemical tournament.
7. “Learn to build the future” from urban planning and architectural graphics.
8. All-Russian Tolstoy Olympiad in history, literature and social studies.
9. All-Russian Olympiad of representatives of musical institutions of the Russian Federation on string instruments, music pedagogy, folk orchestra instruments, choral conducting and performance.
10. All-Russian competition of scientific works “Junior” in engineering and natural sciences.
The noted list of the most relevant Olympiads in Russia has been in effect for the past few years. True, having familiarized yourself with all the competitions, a completely logical question arises: what is the difference between the tasks of all levels? First of all, we are talking about the level of preparation of schoolchildren.
To become not only an ordinary representative of the Olympiad, but even to take a prize place, you should have enough high level preparation. On some Internet portals you can find Olympiad tasks from previous years to check your own level using ready-made answers, find out the approximate start time of the competition and some organizational issues.
All-Russian Olympiads for schoolchildren are held under the auspices of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science after official confirmation of the calendar of their dates. Such events cover almost all disciplines and subjects included in the compulsory curriculum of secondary schools.
By participating in such competitions, students are given the opportunity to gain experience in answering questions in intellectual competitions, as well as expand and demonstrate their knowledge. Schoolchildren begin to calmly respond to various forms of knowledge testing, and are responsible for representing and defending the level of their school or region, which develops a sense of duty and discipline. Besides, good result can bring a well-deserved cash bonus or advantages when applying to leading universities in the country.
Olympiads for schoolchildren in the 2017-2018 academic year are held in 4 stages, divided by territorial aspect. These stages in all cities and regions are carried out within the general calendar periods established by the regional leadership of educational municipal departments.
Schoolchildren taking part in the competition gradually go through four levels of competition:
- Level 1 (school). In September-October 2017, competitions will be held within each individual school. All parallels of students are tested independently from each other, starting from the 5th grade and ending with graduates. Assignments for this level are prepared by methodological commissions at the city level, and they also provide assignments for district and rural secondary schools.
- Level 2 (regional). In December 2017 - January 2018, the next level will be held, in which the winners of the city and district - students in grades 7-11 - will take part. Tests and tasks at this stage are developed by the organizers of the regional (third) stage, and all questions regarding preparation and locations for conducting are assigned to local authorities.
- Level 3 (regional). Duration: from January to February 2018. Participants are the winners of the Olympiads of the current and completed year of study.
- Level 4 (All-Russian). Organized by the Ministry of Education and runs from March to April 2018. The winners of regional stages and the winners of last year participate in it. However, not all winners of the current year can take part in the All-Russian Olympiads. The exception is children who took 1st place in the region, but are significantly behind the other winners in points.
Winners All-Russian level If desired, they can take part in international competitions taking place during the summer holidays.
List of disciplines
In the 2017-2018 school season Russian schoolchildren can test their strength in the following areas:
- exact sciences – analytical and physical and mathematical direction;
- natural sciences - biology, ecology, geography, chemistry, etc.;
- philological sector – various foreign languages, native language and literature;
- humanitarian direction - economics, law, historical sciences, etc.;
- other subjects - art and, BJD.
This year, the Ministry of Education officially announced the holding of 97 Olympiads, which will be held in all regions of Russia from 2017 to 2018 (9 more than last year).
Benefits for winners and runners-up
Each Olympiad has its own level: I, II or III. Level I is the most difficult, but it gives its graduates and prize-winners the most advantages when entering many prestigious universities in the country.
Benefits for winners and runners-up come in two categories:
- admission without exams to the chosen university;
- awarding the highest Unified State Exam score in the discipline in which the student received a prize.
The most famous level I state competitions include the following Olympiads:
- St. Petersburg Astronomical Institute;
- "Lomonosov";
- St. Petersburg State Institute;
- "Young Talents";
- Moscow school;
- "Highest standard";
- "Information Technology";
- “Culture and art”, etc.
Level II Olympics 2017-2018:
- Hertsenovskaya;
- Moscow;
- "Eurasian linguistic";
- "Teacher of the school of the future";
- Lomonosov Tournament;
- "TechnoCup" etc.
TO competition III level 2017-2018 include the following:
- "Star";
- "Young Talents";
- Competition of scientific works "Junior";
- "Hope of Energy";
- "Step into the future";
- “Ocean of Knowledge”, etc.
According to the Order “On Amendments to the Procedure for Admission to Universities”, winners or prize-winners final stage have the right to admission without entrance examinations to any university in a field corresponding to the profile of the Olympiad. At the same time, the correlation between the direction of training and the profile of the Olympiad is determined by the university itself and without fail publishes this information on its official website.
The right to use the benefit is retained by the winner for 4 years, after which it is canceled and admission occurs on a general basis.
Preparation for the Olympics
The standard structure of Olympiad tasks is divided into 2 types:
- testing theoretical knowledge;
- the ability to translate theory into practice or demonstrate practical skills.
A decent level of preparation can be achieved using the official website of the Russian state Olympiads, which contains tasks from past rounds. They can be used both to test your knowledge and to identify problem areas in preparation. There, on the website you can check the dates of the rounds and get acquainted with the official results.
Video: assignments for the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren appeared online
- Contest
- Olympics
- Competition-game
- Subject week
- Family competition
- Children with disabilities
- Control test
- Summer camp
- Tests online
Distance Olympics of the Snail Center
Goals and objectives of distance Olympiads of the Snail Center:
- checking students' knowledge level
- developing the skill of self-appropriation of knowledge
- formation and development of skills for independent search and analysis of information
- formation and development of skills in using Internet services in education
- increasing motivation to study the subject
Olympics
They give the participant the opportunity to test and deepen their knowledge of a specific school discipline or even one section of it. All tasks of distance olympiads are divided by age groups and comply with school programs and Federal State Educational Standards requirements.
Competition-game
They give the participant the opportunity to test and deepen their knowledge of a specific school discipline or even one section of it. All tasks of distance Olympiads are divided by age groups and correspond to school programs and the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard.
Subject week
They give the participant the opportunity to test and deepen their knowledge of a specific school discipline or even one section of it. All tasks of distance Olympiads are divided by age groups and correspond to school programs and the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard.
Family competition
They give the participant the opportunity to test and deepen their knowledge of a specific school discipline or even one section of it. All tasks of distance Olympiads are divided by age groups and correspond to school programs and the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard.
Specialist. competitions
They give the participant the opportunity to test and deepen their knowledge of a specific school discipline or even one section of it. All tasks of distance Olympiads are divided by age groups and correspond to school programs and the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard.
It is a whole system of Olympiads in subjects included in the compulsory curriculum of the country’s general education institutions. Participation in such an Olympiad is an honorable and responsible mission, because it is a student’s chance to show his accumulated knowledge, defend the honor of his educational institution, and if he wins, it is also an opportunity to receive financial incentives and earn a privilege when entering the best universities in Russia.
The practice of holding subject Olympiads has existed in the country for more than a hundred years - back in 1886, representatives of educational authorities initiated competitions between young talents. During the Soviet Union, this movement not only did not cease to exist, but also received an additional impetus for development. Since the 60s of the last century, intellectual competitions on an all-Union and then all-Russian scale began to be held in almost all major school disciplines.
What subjects are included in the Olympiad list?
In the 2017-2018 academic year, the country's schoolchildren will be able to compete for prizes in several categories of disciplines:
- in the exact sciences, which include computer science and mathematics;
- in the natural sciences, which include geography, biology, astronomy, physics, chemistry and ecology;
- in the field of philology, including Olympiads in German, English, Chinese, French, Italian, as well as Russian language and literature;
- in the field of humanities, consisting of history, social studies, law and economics;
- in other disciplines, which include physical education, world artistic culture, technology and life safety.
In the Olympiad tasks for each of the listed disciplines, there are usually two blocks of tasks: a part that tests theoretical preparation, and a part aimed at identifying practical skills.
Main stages of the 2017-2018 Olympiad
Conducting the All-Russian school Olympiad includes the organization of four stages of competitions held at various levels. Final schedule intellectual battles between schoolchildren are determined by representatives of schools and regional educational authorities, however, you can focus on such periods of time.
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- Stage 1. School. Competitions between representatives of the same school will be held in September-October 2017. The Olympiad is held between parallel students, starting in the fifth grade. In this case, the development of tasks for conducting subject Olympiads is entrusted to members of the city-level methodological commission.
- Stage 2. Municipal. The stage, where competitions take place between the winners of schools in the same city, representing grades 7-11, will be held from December 2017 to January 2018. The mission of compiling Olympiad tasks is assigned to the organizers at the regional level, and local officials are responsible for issues related to the provision of a place and ensuring the procedure for the Olympiads.
- Stage 3. Regional. The third level of the Olympiad, which will be held in January-February 2018. At this stage, schoolchildren who received prizes at the city Olympiad and those who won the regional selections last year take part in the competition.
- Stage 4. All-Russian. The highest level of subject Olympiads will be organized by representatives of the Ministry of Education Russian Federation in March-April 2018. Regional winners and the guys who won last year are invited to attend. However, not every winner of the regional selection can become a participant in this stage. The exception is schoolchildren who received 1st place in their region, but are behind in points from the winners at the level of other cities. The winners of the All-Russian stage can then go to international competitions that take place in the summer.
Where can I find standard tasks for the Olympiad?
Of course, to perform well in this event, you need to have a high level of preparation. The All-Russian Olympiad is represented on the Internet by its own website - rosolymp.ru - where students can familiarize themselves with assignments from previous years, check their level with the help of answers to them, find out specific dates and requirements for organizational matters.
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