Ministry of Education: violators of USE rules in North Ossetia will not receive their certificates this year

The schools of North Ossetia have revealed – in the course of the Unified State Examination (USE) in the Russian language, mathematics, biology and history – seven violations and facts of putting the exam results on the Internet. This was announced by Alan Ogoev, the Minister of Education and Sciences of North Ossetia, summing up the subtotals of the USE.

According to his story, "the pupils who posted the USE tests on the Internet will not receive their high school certificates this year."

Currently, the examination papers are being processed. According to the federal regulations, the results in the first examination subjects – the Russian language – will be announced by June 8, said the minister.

On June 3, Oksana Tsarikaeva, the Assistant to the Minister of Education of North Ossetia, said that, in general, the examinations in the republic passed nicely; however, three violations of the USE rules were revealed – the Federal Test Centre revealed facts of posting by pupils of North Ossetia by test materials on the Internet.

According to Batraz Uvizhev, the head of the control and supervision division of the above Ministry of Education, "those guilty of the leakage of the exam materials will face very tough administrative measures."

Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" wrote about violations at passing the USE in the regions of Southern Russia. For example, in Dagestan 20 works were annulled after the Russian language exam; while the two pupils, who had posted their works on the Internet, will not be able to get their certificates this year.