Undergraduates in Kazan test their knowledge of mathematics

A unified state examination in mathematics is today held in Kazan. More than 200 Kazan school undergraduates take it at school No 116 where one of the Tatarstan’s 86 examination stations is quartered.
At 10 am, 11-year school students began to take the test.
Before the exam, Adelia Gilmazetdinova, an undergraduate at school No 3, said training for the math exam had begun from her 10th year.
“Training took place nearly every day, the difficulty is there is too much information, and now we need to show all this knowledge in one day,” she said. “One needs to rely on oneself, as nobody else can help you. Most importantly, one needs to calm down, because anxiety does not help,” the student added.
As all examinees, in her hands she holds her ID, pens, a bottle of water and a chocolate bar. “People with allergy to chocolate bring nuts. Besides, some medicines are allowed in,” she commented.
She planned to enter Kazan Federal University’s department of economics, she added. “One can get the bachelor’s degree here but next year I want to go abroad and study there, although a different profession,” she said.
As at all exam stations, undergraduates walked through metal detectors and the auditoriums were equipped with CCTV systems. One instance of rules violations was reported in Tatarstan during the mathematics exam on 1 June, when an undergraduate’s paper was made void for copying.
A total of slightly more than 15,000 people in Tatarstan take a proficiency-level math exam today. In the 3 hours and 55 minutes they need to do 21 sums, scoring a minimum of 27 points. Results are to be announced in 10 days.