UEE Russian case studies

The Unified State Exam in Russian Language (ЕГЭ по русскому языку) is the school-leaving and university-admission test taken by Russian secondary-school graduates. It is required for admission to virtually every Russian higher-education programme, and many universities also require a minimum score for non-philology degrees. The exam tests how well a candidate can work with real Russian text: choosing correct word forms and stress, applying spelling and punctuation rules, understanding how a passage is built and what expressive means it uses, and finally producing an argumentative essay on a supplied source text. Preparation is usually built around the official specification and demo versions published by the federal education authorities, plus repeated practice on full-length variants under timed conditions. The most effective routine combines rule revision with error analysis: keep a personal log of mistakes from practice papers, revisit weak rule groups weekly, and write at least one full essay per week with self-review against the assessment criteria. Because the essay carries the largest single share of marks, candidates who leave it to the final weeks tend to lose points they could easily have secured earlier. Topics on this exam: Text, speech, and language norms (orthoepy, lexical norms, morphology, syntax), Spelling (orthography), Punctuation, Speech and text analysis (coherence, means of expression, functional styles), and Written composition based on a source text (argumentative essay). The UEE Russian case studies are 5 cases and about 3,025 words.