Demonstration version of ZNO

For careless students, the situation is further complicated by the fact that in last years it is quite possible to "fill up" ZNO. If earlier a certificate with minimum points was issued to schoolchildren in any case, then in 2018 in order to get the coveted document in your hands, you will have to dial at least 24 primary scores... Particularly important in this regard is one of compulsory subjects submitted for final control - Ukrainian language and literature.

On the one hand, a language exam is considered a simple EIT - students who cannot cope with this subject are extremely rare. On the other hand, a high score can be obtained only if the student understands language norms and rules, has an excellent vocabulary and enthusiastically reads the recommended literature. And in order to simplify the process of preparation for this subject for you, we will tell you what the ZNO will be in Ukrainian language and literature in 2018, and how you can pass it for the highest score.

Demonstration version of ZNO

Date ZNO-2018 in Ukrainian

What will the ZNO be in 2018?

The maximum primary points that can be obtained for the exam in the Ukrainian language and literature is 104. The work is written over 180 minutes. The examination on this subject does not imply the use of additional subjects or reference materials. Below we describe the requirements for students, and also list the sections, the knowledge of which will provide you with a high score for the examination work.

ZNO program in the part of the Ukrainian language

Each student will have to show how successfully he mastered the sections on phonetics, spelling and spelling, mastered vocabulary and phraseology, understands the structure of words and the peculiarities of their formation, mastered morphology and syntax. In addition, in order to receive high marks, a graduate must have a developed speech and understand the style of the literary Ukrainian language. When checking the work, the commission will evaluate the following parameters:

• knowledge of the alphabet, as well as the rules of pronunciation and alternation of sounds;
• ability to apply orthoepic norms when placing stress, recognize spelling and apply rules;
• the ability to explain the lexical norms of the Ukrainian language, select words of a synonymous and antonymic nature, and also correctly apply phraseological units;
• understanding the structure of words, the ability to recognize words of the same root;
• the ability to differentiate nouns, adjectives, verbs, particles, prepositions, numbers, participles, participles and exclamations as parts of speech;
• mastering the skills of verb conjugation, declension of nouns, adjectives and numbers, as well as the correct use of parts of speech in linguistic constructions and understanding of the classification of parts of speech;
• skills in constructing sentences with different emotional coloring and grammatical structure, the ability to distinguish sentences and phrases, the ability to parse a sentence into its component parts;
• mastering the skills of converting direct speech into indirect speech;
• the ability to recognize different styles of speech, as well as use speech tools to achieve specific goals;
• the ability to memorize and relay the meaning of what has been read, separating the main idea from secondary expressions, as well as the skills of critical reflection, analysis and retelling.

ZNO program in terms of literature

Take the time to prepare! At ZNO, you have to solve 58 tasks in 180 minutes, which is impossible without thorough preliminary work!

In this part of ZNO, students will have to show that they are guided in oral folk art, as well as Ukrainian literary works of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, the work of emigrant writers and works created by postmodern authors. Checking this part of the work, the commission will evaluate:

• the ability to analyze literary works from the point of view of their main idea, characters and their motives, as well as the artistic means used by the author;
• knowledge of works of art of various genres;
• understanding of the following literary concepts: romanticism, realism, epic, drama, lyrics, satire, grotesque;
• the ability to find epithets, comparisons, metaphors, allegories, hyperboles in a work;
• the ability to navigate the modernist and postmodern directions of Ukrainian literature;
• skills in the use of rhetorical questions and poetic syntax, including inversion, tautology, parallelism.

Features of the examination work

Graduates will have to solve 58 tasks, divided into three parts:

• the first part - 33 tasks in the Ukrainian language;
• the second part - 24 tasks on Ukrainian literature;
• the third part - 1 task in the form of an essay.

All tasks from the first and second parts have different difficulty levels:

• in tasks numbered 1-23, 29-33 and 34-53, it is enough to choose one correct answer from the list of proposed ones;
• in tasks with numbers 24-28 and 54-57, you should establish correspondences between two columns, creating "logical pairs";
• assignment number 58 assumes that the student will write a short essay on a discussion topic, writing down his thoughts on a separate form.

What are the criteria for evaluating an essay?

Essay is a part of the job that can bring up to 20 points, therefore special requirements are imposed on it. Students will be assessed according to several criteria:

• the first group of criteria covers the content and compositional design of thoughts. The members of the commission will check how well the student is able to formulate a thesis (this skill is estimated at 2 points), give arguments (2 points), use literary examples (2 points) and examples of a historical or life character (2 points), observes the logic and sequence of work ( 2 points), knows how to draw conclusions (2 points);
• the second group of criteria concerns the speech design of the text. A spell checker can give a student 4 points if he made no more than 1 mistake, 3 points if there were errors from 2 to 6, 2 points if there are 7-11 errors, 1 point if the student made 12-16 mistakes. Larger number errors means that this part of the work will be evaluated at 0 points. The lexical, grammatical and stylistic components are assessed separately. If the student managed to make no more than 1 mistake, then he will earn 4 points, from 2 to 4 mistakes - 3 points, from 5 to 7 mistakes - 2 points, from 8 to 10 mistakes - 1 point. If the number of errors exceeds 11, this part work is estimated at 0 points.

Separately, it should be said that the student will need to write a work of at least 100 words - essays of a smaller volume will not be evaluated.

How is ZNO assessed in the Ukrainian language?

A high score for ZNO will be able to correct a low grade for a subject in the certificate

Based on the results of the ZNO, the students are given a final mark, which directly affects the school certificate. In this case, the results of not all tasks on the ticket are taken into account, but only points received for tasks No. 1-23, 29-33 and 58. The conversion of points to a 12-point scale is as follows:

• 0–5 points correspond to 1 point in the school system;
• 6-10 - 2 points;
• 11-15 - 3 points;
• 16–20 - 4 points;
• 21-26 - 5 points;
• 27–32 - 6 points;
• 33–38 - 7 points;
• 39–43 - 8 points;
• 44–49 - 9 points;
• 50–55 - 10 points;
• 56–61 - 11 points;
• 62–68 - 12 points.

If a student cannot score at least 24 primary points, his work is evaluated at 0 points, which means that the certificate is not issued. Modern system admission is arranged in such a way that it is difficult to understand in advance what the passing score for the budget will be. The final distribution of places depends on what is the current competition in the university for the specialty you have chosen, what points other applicants can boast, and how they have allocated their priorities.

Of course, students with high scores are unlikely to "fly through" budget places (excluding those cases when the university is given only 1-2 budget places). Thus, for guaranteed admission to the budget, it is worth collecting at least 92 primary points out of 104 for ZNO in the Ukrainian language and literature.

How to prepare for the exam?

Download your old tickets and use them to prepare for the exam!

The combination of the language and the literary part in one ticket means that you will have to spend a lot of days preparing for this ZNO. Success in passing the ZNO largely depends on whether you follow our recommendations.

• Take textbooks from all the years of studying the Ukrainian language or methodological developments to prepare for ZNO, carefully repeat all the rules and exceptions;
• Stock up on books on literature to understand terminology and learn to recognize artistic techniques;
• Download and solve last year's tickets (see links at the beginning of the article). This will help you understand the assessment criteria, as well as the structure and content of the ZNO;
• Hone your skills in using language norms - write dictations regularly, trying to perceive by ear not only pronunciation, but also syntactic and punctuation points. This exercise will help you develop a sense of language;
• Write a dozen essays on the topics that were suggested to students in the tickets of the past years. At the same time, strictly adhere to the criteria on the basis of which the commission will evaluate the essay on a real exam. So you will bring the observance of these norms to automatism;
• Make a plan to study literary works, taken out on ZNO. Authors whose works may appear in tickets: G. Skovoroda, I. Kotlyarevsky, T. Shevchenko, P. Kulish, I. Nechuy-Levitsky, P. Mirny, I. Karpenko-Kary, I. Franko, M. Kotsyubinsky, O Kobylianska, L. Ukrainka, P. Tychina, M. Rylsky, V. Sosyura, O. Vishnya, A. Dovzhenko, V. Symonenko, O. Gonchar, V. Stus, L. Kostenko. In addition, the exam program includes oral folklore, postmodern writers and ancient works such as "The Lay of Igor's Campaign" and "Tale of the Years Past". Such an impressive list suggests that you will have to read the works from the very beginning of the year;
• It will not be superfluous to read the criticism of the works included in the ZNO program - this way you can better understand the works of a philosophical orientation and isolate main idea, laid down in them by the author;
• Do not forget to take tests on online ZNO simulators - this will consolidate the terminology and teach you to make decisions quickly.