In social studies for a high score, or become a prize-winner (winner) of the Olympiad in this subject. The goal in both cases is the same: to provide the child with admission to a prestigious university for a current specialty.

According to schoolchildren and many adults, social studies is not the most difficult subject. For this reason, today the USE in social studies is chosen by every second graduate. Indeed, thanks to general erudition, good knowledge in the field of history and literature, you can pass the exam in social studies above the minimum threshold. However, it is impossible to achieve high results (from 75 points and above) without thorough preparation. Every year in Moscow alone, 5% of graduates fail the social studies exam.

So, how to choose a tutor for the exam in social studies? What questions should he ask at the first meeting?

QUESTION ONE: What is your education? And where do you work?

Definitely, this is a specialized education, preferably pedagogical. For example, a diploma in the specialty "Social Science", or "Social Science and Law", or. The presence of certificates of advanced training in the profile: "In-depth preparation of students for creative tasks of the Unified State Exam" or "Solving Olympiad tasks" is encouraged.

Now let's deal with the place of work. A school teacher will better cope with preparation for the USE: he knows the weaknesses of students, he has more experience working with an audience of this age, he understands child psychology, he regularly prepares schoolchildren for the USE in social studies.

To prepare for the All-Russian Olympiad in Social Science and the "peer-to-peer" Olympiads, it is better to turn to university teachers. Such a tutor, as a rule, teaches several related disciplines, for example, political science, history and social studies. He has higher qualifications, a broad outlook, so there will be more practical benefits from such a tutor. But the child, with whom the university tutor will work, must understand and love the subject very well and not be afraid of stress. After all, the Olympiad tasks go far beyond the school curriculum.

QUESTION TWO: What are the difficulties in the tasks of the exam in social studies? What are the criteria for evaluating the detailed answers?

The more nuances and pitfalls a tutor can paint, the more he knows about the Unified State Exam in Social Studies.

For example, tasks Ch1 are somehow connected with the choice of an answer from several proposed options. But this is not just a question and answer options. In assignments №4-9; №11; №13-20 Ch1 may have several correct answers. But how much: 2, 3 or all 5, the examinee must understand independently. Moreover, it is important to know the nuances of evaluating such tasks. If the answer contains one extra digit, or vice versa, one digit is not enough, 1 point is deducted. If 2 or more incorrect answers are indicated, all points are deducted.

In task number 21, the answers can be scattered throughout the text, it is important to carefully read the text. Many people make a mistake in the structure of the answer, it is important to form the answer in the format of a question.

Or, when answering the last question, graduates use the Draft, but forget to write the essay topic in it. And this is spelled out in the terms of the assignment. When checking the essay, the expert has every right to remove the point (s) for this "error".

QUESTION THREE: What teaching materials and additional materials will be used to prepare a graduate for the Unified State Exam in Social Studies? (What materials do you use when preparing a student for the Olympiad in social studies?)

As the teachers and experts of the Unified State Exam in social studies themselves admit, not one modern school textbook on social studies is capable of fully preparing a student for passing the Unified State Exam. Why? But because the USE in social studies is an interdisciplinary exam that includes sections of several related sciences, such as law, philosophy, economics, political science and sociology. For this very reason, to help graduates, the management of some schools often introduces additional subjects or special courses, such as law, economics, political science, sociology and even philosophy.

Textbooks, manuals, encyclopedias, offered by the tutor, should be not only in social studies. These can be additional textbooks on law, economics, sociology, necessarily the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Textbooks and manuals must be recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia. It is very important to prepare for new books, old textbooks often use concepts and terminology that have become obsolete.

The practice of solving tests can be developed on the tasks of the past years of the Unified State Exam in Social Studies. The open bank of USE assignments is the official source of USE tests from the KIM developers (FIPI). Answers and solutions can be found in the textbooks for preparing for the exam in social studies. As in the case of textbooks, it is necessary to use high-quality reshebniks, which are published by large publishers ("Bustard", "Education", etc.).

QUESTION FOUR: How will the lessons go?

Experienced tutors point out that in the classroom it is necessary to devote a lot of time to practice, namely:

• develop the skill of solving tests;
• to analyze more tasks of an advanced, profile level, since the exam often comes across more difficult questions than in manuals and training works;
• preparation for a social science essay.

We wrote about the nuances with test tasks above. Let's dwell on the second point - super difficult tasks. In the tasks of the KIM USE in social studies, there are questions, the answers to which are studied by students of humanitarian specialties already in the 2-3 course. For example, a question from the "Law" module touches on the topic of types of legal entities, namely limited partnership.

Further. Each year, the appendix to the specification lists regulations from the Russian Constitution that a graduate must know. But social studies teachers, who have been preparing children for the Unified State Exam in Social Studies for several years, are advised to look through, and it is better to learn, all 137 articles of the Constitution.

You cannot get a high score on the Unified State Exam in Social Science without paying due attention to preparing for the last assignment - a social science essay. And although the experts write that the works "written outside the box, creatively, imbued with interest in the subject" receive the highest score, it is important to adapt to the format of the exam and not be too smart. The Unified State Exam has its own specifics in terms of topics and methods of solution, and in order to eventually get the required score, the student's answer must correspond to these methods.

Firstly, the work must correspond to the declared structure of the essay: quotation - the problem raised by the author - the meaning of the statement - the point of view of the examinee - theoretical argumentation - at least 2 examples from history, literature, personal practice that confirm the correctness of the above stated judgments - conclusion ...

It is also important to follow the elementary rules of writing an essay: highlight paragraphs and observe the red line, use short, simple, but varied in intonation sentences, drawn up according to the scheme: “I believe that ...”, “I share the author’s position ...” or “In conclusion, we do conclusion…".

QUESTION FIVE: Will there be homework?

Homework in preparation for the Unified State Exam in Social Studies with a tutor is required. This is not only solving tests and problems, but also writing detailed answers, plans and social science essays on a topic set by the tutor.

The work is checked by two experts under tight deadlines, often using vague evaluation criteria. Here, for example, one of such criteria: "other, similar examples can be given." If the expert considers the given example "close in value" the points will be, otherwise, the intended threshold can be undeservedly underestimated. The assessment for this part of the work is very subjective. On appeals in social studies, the graduates managed to gain as many as 12 (!) Additional points, defending and arguing their point of view.

Also, experienced tutors advise you to start every day by reading the news. The sources must be serious: federal publications like Rossiyskaya Gazeta, news agencies like Interfax and RIA Novosti, as well as regional media. For the graduate, the news of the following headings is relevant: education, society, culture, politics, religion and international relations. Regular viewing of the media will help to give good examples in the tasks of the P2 exam in social studies. And also more interested in history, literature and geography, because facts from personal social experience and personal observations are welcome as examples and arguments. And for this you need the very broad outlook that we wrote about at the very beginning of the material.

Almost summer greetings to everyone! For many, the "last calls" have already died down, the time has come for the finish line in preparation for the Unified State Exam. And social science is no exception. Many are just beginning to prepare, this is generally a tin. But what can you do, everyone's head works differently.

However, on the eve of the exam, I want to present you with a small gift: my questions, which I usually ask in public. Many will ask: "Why are there questions when there is a codifier for those KIM USE?" I answer immediately: questions are the basis of our thinking. The ability to ask and answer a question is a serious art. And if you answer all these questions right away, you can be sure that you will write the first part of the test without errors.

Because the first part of the USE society test tests your knowledge, and the second part tests your test-solving skills. If there are problems in the questions, then it is not too late to take our video course on society and with its help not only fill in the gaps, but also get a clear idea of ​​how to solve the USE tests. Ok, here are the questions.

Questions about society

Man and society

1. What is a worldview?
2. What are activities?
3. What is the structure of the activity?
4. What is development?
5. What is progress?
6. What are the hallmarks of a traditional society?
7. What are the hallmarks of an industrial society?
8. What are the signs of a post-industrial society?
9. What are needs?
10. What is culture?
11. What is art?
12. What is cognition?
13. What is Science?
14. What is religion? What are the forms of religion?
15. What theories of social progress do you know?

Social sphere

1. What is social?
2. What is a social fact?
3. What is social stratification?
4. What is socialization?
5. What is a social group, what are its characteristics?
6. Describe the types of social groups?
7. How do the concepts of social role and social status relate?
8. What types of socialization do you know?
9. What are the reasons for social stratification?
10. What is social mobility?
11. What is personality?
12. How do the concepts relate to each other: individual, individuality and personality?
13. What is deviation, name its types?
14. What are the reasons for deviant behavior, what are the theories?
15. What forms of social interaction do you know?
16. What is social conflict?
17. What theories of social stratification do you know?
18. How do the concepts relate: social group and community, group and social institution?
19. What is the difference between the social group "family" and the social institution "family"?
20. What is ethnos, ethnosocial community?

Political sphere

1. What is politics?
2. What is power?
3. What is the difference between the legality of power and legitimacy?
4. What is a crisis of legitimacy, what are its signs?
5. What theories of politics do you know?
6. Is politics more of a social phenomenon or a unique political one?
7. What is a political process?
8. What does the political system include?
9. What are the signs of the state?
10. What are the ghosts of a totalitarian state, political system?
11. What are the ghosts of an authoritarian state, political system?
12. What are the prizes of a democratic state, a political system?
13. Name all the classifications of the forms of the state and describe each?
14. What is civil society?
15. What are some examples of civic associations?
16. What is a party, what are the signs of parties?
17. What are interest groups, pressures, lobbies?
18. What is a political elite?
19. What theories of the political elite do you know?

Economic sphere

1. What is profit?
2. How does money work?
3. How are the concepts of supply and demand related?
4. What is inflation, denomination, nullification, devaluation, revaluation, deflation - give examples?
5. What are costs? Explain and illustrate with examples: explicit costs, implicit, accounting economic?
6. What are the types of markets and illustrate each with an example?
7. What are the types of farming and illustrate them with examples?
8. What are securities, what types, examples?
9. Explain what business cycles are and illustrate them with examples?

Right

1. What is a source of law? What are the sources of law that you know?
2. What is the law?
3. What types of laws in the Russian Federation do you know?
4. What is legal fact?
5. What is legal personality?
6. How are legal capacity and legal capacity related?
7. Name the object of law: civil, labor, administrative, criminal, family?
8. What is emancipation?
9. What is the statute of limitations? What three main words do you know?
10. What are the key signs of an offense?
11. What are the key signs of a crime?
12. Name the parties to legal proceedings in law

By the way, questions about history, I have already

Exam materials (grade 11)

Thematic training tasks of the exam in social studies

This section contains training test items for the USE of all types (A, B, C), grouped by thematic blocks: "Man and Society", "Social Relations", "Politics", "Economics", "Law". The first file in each thematic block contains the texts of the tasks, the second file contains the answers to the tasks.

1. Repetition of all paragraphs of one of the sections of the textbook.

2. Solving all test items in the corresponding section.

3. Self-check on the file with answers, error correction.

4. Self-analysis of errors (number, possible reasons).

5. Repeated repetition of those paragraphs of the section, the content of which is associated with most of the errors.

6. Consultation with a teacher on problematic issues.

Memo on completing the Unified State Exam assignments in social studies (C1 - C9)

Unified State Exam in History and Social Science 2012:

demo version of assignments in history and social studies

• demo version of the tasks of the unified state exam in 2011,
• codifier of content elements for the compilation of control measuring materials (CMM) of the unified state examination of 2011 - pay attention to the sections of your chosen subject included in the exam that need to be repeated
• specification of the examination work of the unified state examination of 2011 - materials intended for teachers.

The site contains control measuring materials on history, social studies and other subjects.

Unified State Exam (social studies): examples of tasks of type "C"

The third part (C) of the USE tasks in social studies requires detailed answers from the examinees. This is a practically oriented part of the examination work, which gives the maximum number of points for each task.

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The Unified State Exam in Social Studies consists of two parts, which in total contain 29 tasks.

First part contains 20 tasks with a short answer.

The answer to the tasks of the first part is given by the corresponding entry in the form of a word or phrase or a sequence of numbers written without spaces and separating symbols.

Tasks 1-3 - conceptual tasks of the basic level - are aimed at testing knowledge and understanding of the biosocial essence of a person, the main stages and factors of personality socialization, patterns and trends in the development of society, basic social institutions and processes.

Tasks 4-19 of the basic and advanced levels are aimed at checking the formation of skills:

• characterize from a scientific standpoint, the main social objects (facts, phenomena, processes, institutions), their place and significance in the life of society as an integral system
• search social information presented in various sign systems (text, diagram, table, diagram)
• apply socio-economic and humanitarian knowledge in the process of solving cognitive tasks on topical social problems

The tasks in this group represent the traditional five thematic modules of the social science course:

1. people and society, including knowledge and spiritual culture (tasks 4-6)
2. economics (tasks 7-10)
3. social relations (tasks 11, 12)
4. politics (tasks 13-15)
5. law (tasks 16-19)

Second part contains 9 tasks with a detailed answer.

In the tasks of the second part, the answer is formulated and written down by the examinee independently in expanded form. The tasks of this part of the work are aimed at identifying graduates with the highest level of social science training.

The tasks of the second part (21-29) together represent the basic social sciences that form the social science course of secondary school (social philosophy, economics, sociology, political science, social psychology, jurisprudence.

Distribution of tasks by parts of the examination work

Time

The examination work is assigned 3 hours 55 minutes.
Recommended time for completing various tasks:

• for each of tasks 1–3, 10: 1–4 minutes
• for each of tasks 4-9, 11-28: 2-8 minutes
• for task 29: 45 minutes