Good day, dear reader. If you are reading this article, then most likely you are interested in knowing how you can pass the exam early. For many first-year students, it is not even clear what just a session is, and what is also an early session. If you are one of those who came to higher education only this year and want to know how to take exams ahead of the main stream, or you have been studying for several years now, but have never thought about taking exams ahead of schedule , then this article is especially for you.
Before we tell you inside and out about the procedure early session, let's think, why are some students so eager to pass exams before others? Are they the smartest or kamikazes? Most likely, they are neither one nor the other. Simply, due to life circumstances, they need to complete the exam sheet as soon as possible.
The reasons can be very different. Here are just a few of them:
1) departure abroad;
2) family problems;
3) work;
4) I just want to go on vacation as soon as possible.
We brought this list for a reason. We will still need it. Now let's finally talk about the procedure itself early completion of the session.
Taking exams early is nothing but a regular session. True, with some peculiarities. Like almost everything in this world, an early session follows certain rules.
Rules for early completion of the session:
1) conditions for early delivery;
2) preparation of documents;
3) preparation for exams.
Now let's talk in more detail about each of these points.
1. Conditions for early delivery.
If you want to pass the exam early, then the most important condition is your current academic performance. Therefore, if you are planning to fly south, then make sure that you do not have academic debt for previous sessions.
For freshmen, we explain: academic debt is when a student did not pass one or more exams and/or tests in previous sessions.
If you are “clean”, then purely formally they cannot prohibit you from collecting signatures (signatures will be discussed a little later). Therefore, make sure in advance that you do not have problems due to past debts.
2. Preparation of documents.
After you have received verbal permission to submit early from your group supervisor (or dean - each university has its own rules), you can begin collecting documents. Here we hasten to please you - there will be few “pieces of paper”. Only 2 documents. You can obtain them from your dean's office (or department.)
The first document is your application (a blank sheet of paper). Most likely, you will be interested in knowing what to write in it. So, in this application you must write your student details (full name, faculty, specialty, course) and the reason why you decided take the exam early.
Remember our list of possible causes. This is where it came in handy for us. Choose any of the reasons presented above or write your own. Let's tell you a big secret, it is better to write a reason that more than one teacher “cannot resist.” Tell me, what does the teacher have to do with it? You'll find out soon. In the meantime, remember that the more compelling your reason, the easier it will be to get all the necessary signatures.
Now we have reached the most “difficult” part of preparing documents for early submission - collecting signatures. What other signatures? Signatures of your teachers with whom you will take the session early. Why, you ask, make life so difficult for a student and go through such formalities - collecting signatures from teachers?
Everything is simple here. You just need to understand what all this is for. And this is necessary so that each teacher, having assessed your current state of affairs (specifically for a given semester), gives his assessment of whether you will be able to pass the session, and even in advance. Maybe you slept all semester and didn't go to lectures. Then forget about the early session!
Or maybe this is the situation. Since you are passing the session ahead of schedule, then the exams will be held for you earlier than the standard deadlines for passing the session. It's clear. But it may happen that some teacher will not be able to take your exam early simply because he will be away during the early exam deadline. Maybe he will deduct all his hours and go to the dacha, because, in fact, he doesn’t owe anyone anything. I did my job and that’s it.
But, if among his students there is at least one student who wishes take the exam early, then this teacher is obliged to accept it, provided that everything is in order with your current academic performance.
That is why you will be obliged to bypass all the teachers without exception from whom you need to take this or that subject.
Once you have collected signatures from all teachers, you will need to obtain several more signatures. Most likely there will be 2 of them.
The first is from the dean of your department (or another person from the department), and the second is a signature from the person responsible for the curriculum in your department (this person just needs to know how many people this semester intend to take the session early in order to create a schedule early session).
After you have collected absolutely all the required signatures, you take this document to the department, and in return you receive 3 (bonus) document - your personal examination sheet.
Why personal? The thing is that usually one sheet is given for the entire group of students. But because If you decide to take the test early, you should be given a separate report only for your grades.
3. Preparation for exams.
If you successfully overcome all the bureaucratic circles, then you are great. But collecting all the necessary documents is only half the battle. This is just a preparatory stage. The best fruits are yet to come. Before you take a few more weeks off than your classmates, you must work at maximum speed during those extra weeks of your future vacation. You need to prepare for several exams in a short time.
Therefore, we tell you in advance, calculate your strength so as not to fail your early session. Although it is early, it is, first of all, the same session. And the session is the most important event in a student’s semester. After all, you don’t want to rest thinking that you didn’t do well in your exams.
In this regard, you will need to properly plan your preparation for a fairly large number of exams. Moreover, keep in mind that when you take exams ahead of schedule, the intervals between two exams may be very small.
If during regular exams, the average interval between two exams is 3-7 days, then when passing the session early, it can reach only one day. For example, you take economic theory on Wednesday, but organizational behavior is on Friday. So be prepared. There will be no one to blame but yourself if you fail miserably in an early session.
Pros and cons of passing a session early
Now you have a general idea of how to take a test early. Now let's point out the main pros and cons of taking exams early.
pros
1) Speed
Before you have time to really get nervous, the session will already come to an end. Many students do poorly in exams only because they are very worried about the outcome of the exam. The time before the exam is real torture for them. They spend it not on preparing for exams, but on all sorts of nonsense, just so as not to think about the upcoming “torment”. The result is a bad grade, loss of scholarship...
So, if you are one of those people, then we advise you to take the session early. It’s better to be nervous for one week than for almost a whole month, why bother yourself like that?
2) Additional holidays
Although we said that you need to prepare for the early session at an accelerated pace, after passing it you will have several weeks more free time than your comrades. Students do not need to be advised where to spend their free time. They already know very well
Minuses
1) Bureaucratic red tape
If you want to take the exam ahead of schedule, then you will have to run around a little to collect all the necessary documents (see above)
2) Intensive preparation
Be prepared to immerse yourself in your studies for several weeks, because... you have to prepare for all exams almost simultaneously
Conclusion: If you want take the exam early, then you should “prepare” the reason for your early submission in advance. This could be leaving for another country, etc. The main thing is that this reason is compelling, otherwise you may be denied early exams. Close all your previous debts, otherwise you will not see an early session. Also, prepare yourself for the fact that you have to “plow” for about a month, i.e. collect the necessary documents and prepare for exams, so that you can rest later when others are “climbing the wall” from the fear of exams.
That's all, thank you for reading the article to the end.
Question: The employee combines work with training (for the first time) at an educational institution of higher professional education that has state accreditation. He was provided with intermediate certification, and vacation pay was accrued in accordance with the period of study leave specified in the summons certificate, but the confirmation certificate indicated a shorter period due to early exams. The employee did not return to work after passing all the exams.
Should the employee have returned to work earlier from additional paid study leave in connection with the early completion of the exam? Does the employer have the right to recalculate vacation pay?
Answer: If an employee combines work with study (for the first time) at an educational institution of higher professional education that has state accreditation, and he was granted paid study leave to undergo intermediate certification, and vacation pay was accrued in accordance with the period of study leave specified in the call certificate ( approved by Order of the Ministry of Education of Russia dated May 13, 2003 N 2057 “On approval of forms of a summons certificate giving the right to provide additional leave at the place of work and other benefits related to studying at a higher educational institution that has state accreditation”), but at the same time If the confirmation certificate contains a shorter period due to the early passing of exams, then, in our opinion, the employee should not have returned to work earlier from additional paid study leave and the employer does not have the right to recalculate his vacation pay accrued in accordance with the period of study leave indicated in the call help.
Rationale: In accordance with Art. 173 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation for employees sent for training by the employer or who independently entered educational institutions of higher professional education with state accreditation, regardless of their organizational and legal forms, in correspondence and part-time (evening) forms of study, successfully studying in these institutions, the employer provides additional vacation while maintaining average earnings, in particular, for passing intermediate certification in the first and second years, respectively - 40 calendar days, in each of the subsequent courses, respectively - 50 calendar days (when mastering the basic educational programs of higher professional education in a shortened time in the second course - 50 calendar days).
In the situation under consideration, the employee presented a confirmation certificate in which a shorter period was recorded due to the early passing of exams. However, the employee did not return to work after passing all the exams.
In order to do so, the employee must submit to the employer a summons certificate and an application for study leave.
Therefore, if there is a summons certificate and an application from the employee, the employer must provide the employee with paid study leave.
Also part of the summons certificate is a confirmation certificate, which records the period of the student’s stay at the educational institution.
Labor legislation does not regulate the situation with an employee returning to work before the end of additional paid educational leave.
In addition, additional paid study leave is provided for passing the intermediate certification, and therefore has a specific purpose.
Consequently, the employee was legally absent from the workplace, regardless of whether he passed the session early or not.
Thus, the employee should not return to work early from additional paid study leave in any case, in particular in connection with early completion of the session, and the employer does not have the right to recalculate his vacation pay accrued in accordance with the period of study leave specified in the summons certificate.
Passing a session early is a pipe dream. Many students think so, or rather, approximately 70% of first-year students and 50% of subsequent year students. Why is the percentage of doubters in senior years smaller? But because they have already encountered passing the exam and understand that it is still possible to pass it ahead of schedule. But is it necessary? Let's try to understand this difficult issue.
Many people believe that passing a test early is beneficial in all respects. There is a lot of time for your personal affairs, and your head no longer hurts about exams. This is of course true, but nevertheless there are also disadvantages to passing the session early, which we will talk about a little later. First, we’ll still focus on how to pass the session earlier, because there is a certain schedule that must be adhered to.
Every year, a student is required to take two sessions - final tests of the knowledge acquired during the semester. There are also cases in some universities when the session has a longer duration, but is taken once a year. But sometimes during their period there are various kinds of emergency situations that make it difficult to pass exams and tests according to the schedule established by the university. In these cases, the optimal way out of this situation would be to pass the session early. There are also situations when a student is absolutely sure that he will not be able to pass the session on time, and not everyone wants to be late with the delivery, since in most cases, after all students have passed the session, teachers also go on vacation and it becomes almost impossible to find them. There are many funny stories from student practice when, due to the fact that a student had a debt on an exam, he was even forced to look for a teacher in his house, constantly calling him on the phone, just so that he would accept his ill-fated exam or test.
So, when a student plans to pass a session early, he needs a good reason for this. Moreover, this reason must be documented. If a student is confident in advance that he will not be able to attend a scheduled exam or test, then he needs to ensure that valid reasons for passing the session early are documented.
So what could be the reason for passing a session early?
moving to another city or country to study.
pregnancy or childbirth of a student.
a job that requires constant presence.
disease. For example, a student has certain medical procedures scheduled for the session, so he may request early delivery.
Of course, these are not all the reasons. When a student plans and draws up an application to pass a session early, he needs to convincingly justify the reasons for his decision. The application must be accompanied by documents confirming the need to pass the certification ahead of schedule. It is written to the vice-rector for academic affairs and submitted to the dean’s office with subsequent consideration by the rector of the university.
The decision may be made negatively if the student has negative grades at the time of submitting the application. associated with poor academic performance. That is, if you know in advance that you will need to take the session in advance, then you should take care of your performance.
It is also possible that you can pass some exams automatically if you simply agree with the teacher. Then you will not have to fill out any applications, and you will not have to anticipate the fact that all exams will be taken early. If you manage to pass some exams automatically, then you will have fewer “tails” left for the session.
Advantages and disadvantages of passing the session early
There is no need to even talk about the advantages of such a session. Firstly, if you take the test in advance, you will have more time for your own life and your personal affairs.
Secondly, you can gain a certain authority among teachers and students, since not everyone is able to pass the session earlier, namely, not everyone has the skills to do this.
Whatever one may say, there are also a lot of disadvantages to early delivery.
In most cases, such sessions are completed in a shorter period than scheduled ones. Hence the first disadvantage - the difficulty of passing at this pace. Each exam is given only a couple of days.
the second disadvantage is that when the session is taken in advance, it is assumed that you will be alone with the teacher, that is, you will definitely not be able to cheat. Moreover, the teacher may have a biased attitude towards you, since you stood out from the crowd of students when you took the initiative to take the exams in advance.
When you consider all the pros and cons of taking exams early, don't forget that it can be an insurmountable task for you. So, in most cases, students choose to take the session on a general basis.
Each year, students are asked to take several sessions. In this way, the educational institution checks what knowledge the student has acquired during the semester. However, sometimes it happens that during a session a student encounters various emergency and unforeseen situations that make passing tests/exams simply impossible. Naturally, the university will never redo the entire schedule. However, its supervisors may agree to allow you to pass the session early.
For what reasons may a session be allowed to be passed early?
If you know in advance that you will not be able to attend a scheduled exam or test, contact the leadership of your university. But remember that you will need a good reason to pass the session early. Moreover, this reason must be documented.
List of main accepted Universities The reasons are as follows:
- employment in the specialty of training;
- pregnancy/birth;
- trip on a tour according to the training program.
Naturally, there can be many more reasons. When drawing up an application for early delivery, the student must clearly justify the need for acceptance University positive decision. Ordinary words about the fact that he did not have time prepare for the exam, for example, because of a trip to the sea, they will not help here. Applications must be accompanied by documents. The papers are written to the vice-rector and then submitted to the dean’s office. Applications are reviewed by the rector of the higher education institution.
If you have negative grades at the end of the semester, this will make things worse. Especially if you have to undergo certification in this particular discipline. If you have an assumption that you will not be able to pass the session on time, do not delay and start “pulling up your tails” in advance. In addition, we recommend that you try to get automatic grades.
Early session - what benefits does the student receive?
The advantages of the solution are clear without words. Students can extend their holidays and relax or work with peace of mind.
Disadvantages of passing the session early
Usually, an early session is taken in a shorter period compared to the planned one. This means that the pace of passing an exam or test will be increased. A student only has a couple of days to prepare for each exam.
In addition, you will need to come to an agreement with each teacher regarding the due date. Sometimes this turns out to be quite difficult. Further, throughout the entire time, the student will need to remind the teacher not to forget about the upcoming exam. But the most important disadvantage is usually considered to be that you will need to take the session alone with the teacher. Naturally, you will no longer have any support or even the slightest chance to use a hint/cheat sheet.
Let's sum it up
You should only take advantage of the opportunity to pass a session early if it is truly necessary. If the reasons are banal and irrational, for example, you just want to rest longer and say goodbye to school faster, you should refuse this option.
There are situations in life when it is precisely on these dates that you just can’t come to the exam. And then what? Lose a year and wait for next year? Not necessary. Passing the Unified State Exam (as well as any other important exams) takes place in 2 stages:
- main stage (held at the end of the academic year, at the end of May-June);
- early stage (held in the spring, in March-April).
Moreover: some students can choose when to take it. But in order to understand whether you need it or not, let’s figure out who these students are, as well as the main pros and cons of taking the exam early.
Who can take the early Unified State Examination?
Persons of the following categories are allowed to pass early:
- those who, by the time of passing, have fully mastered the school curriculum - graduates of schools of previous years, technical schools, lyceums, colleges and schools;
- 11th grade evening school students who are expected to perform military service;
- school graduates who are preparing to move for permanent residence to another country;
- schoolchildren who take part in international or all-Russian olympiads or competitions, the date of which coincides with the main stage of the Unified State Examination;
- schoolchildren who, at the time of the main stage of the Unified State Exam, will be in sanatoriums or other medical institutions to undergo treatment, health or rehabilitation programs;
- graduating students who are outside the country and cannot return due to difficult climatic conditions.
What does early Unified State Examination 2020 mean: benefits
So, you don’t know how to pass the Unified State Exam early in 2020? It is enough to simply write an application addressed to the school director indicating the reason why you may be allowed to do this.
But is it true that the early Unified State Examination is easier than the one held during the main exam period? Well, it definitely has certain advantages, but certainly not in the ease of the exam itself, but in this:
- Graduates are less nervous due to fewer people. For comparison: last year, more than 700,000 students took the exam during the main stage, but only 26,000 young people came ahead of schedule to take the exam. Agree, in such almost friendly company you feel much more confident, which means you will be less nervous.
- Less hustle, bustle and clearer organization. Due to the fact that far fewer students take the early exam, its structure is clearer and more organized. You don’t have to be afraid that you won’t have enough form or that there won’t be a clock in the classroom.
- Optimal weather conditions. The weather in early to mid-spring is more predictable. At this time, you don’t have to be afraid of heat, stuffiness, or the negative effects of direct sunlight. So, in any case, taking the Unified State Exam early takes place in more comfortable conditions.
- Fast verification speed. You will learn about how you wrote the early version of the Unified State Exam 2020 (in chemistry, Russian, mathematics or another subject) much earlier, since the load on observers and inspectors is much lower. Of course, you shouldn't expect results the next day. To find out the results of the Unified State Exam, you will have to wait 7-9 days. Approximately 2-3 days before the deadline for announcing the results, you can already monitor your results. For comparison: those who take the Unified State Exam during the main period have to live with a wait of about two weeks. This is what the early version of the Unified State Examination means!
- Additional time to think through your admission strategy. As soon as you manage to find out the results of the early Unified State Exam 2020, you have additional weeks and even months to analyze your situation in detail and think about where to submit your documents. During this time, you can go to different universities for open days, prepare for internal exams of the chosen university, and even change your mind about your chosen direction. And, of course, devote yourself to rest, gaining strength and relaxation before a difficult academic year, if you still manage to enroll.
Taking the Unified State Exam early: disadvantages
Not everything is as simple as everything in our life. Let's look at the disadvantages that early passing of the Unified State Exam promises us:
- Less time to prepare. While others will have another 2 months to prepare for the Unified State Exam and study with tutors, you will have to take the exam early. This is also bad because some of the topics included in the exam are covered by schoolchildren during the last months of their studies. If you decide to take an early exam, you will have to prepare and understand the topic yourself.
- You become a guinea pig for all changes that have not yet been introduced.. If the organizers decide to introduce any innovations, you will be the first on whom they will test them so that the main period goes perfectly.
- Remoteness of the place for delivery. Since the number of applicants for early examination is significantly lower than the main flow of applicants, the number of places where exams will be taken is also significantly lower. For example, during the main period you will be able to take the exam in your main area of residence or study. If you live in a remote area, then places where it will be difficult to get to may be chosen for the delivery location.
In general, now you see the difference between the main and early stages of passing the Unified State Exam. Each has its pros and cons, and you need to choose what is closest to your spirit. And in order to ease your hard lot, we offer you future assistance from student services in the main types of student work that complicate the learning process (tests, essays, coursework, dissertations).