“What prevents a person from being happy?”: eleventh-graders of Sevastopol wrote a final essay

CrimeaPRESS reports:

Today, eleventh graders passed their first exam test — the final essay. Successful writing of the final essay is a prerequisite for graduates’ admission to the state final certification. The final essay was submitted to 64 educational organizations in Sevastopol.

Educational Center «Cossack Bay» was visited by acting. O. Director of the Department of Education and Science of the city of Sevastopol Maxim Krivonos.

The final essay is being written today by 2,335 Sevastopol eleventh-graders. Students with disabilities have the right to write a statement; this year six people took advantage of this right. Graduates write the final essay in their schools; special commissions were created at each school to conduct the examination test. The purpose of the final essay is to test the ability of graduates to argue cogently on a given topic, using examples from the literature. From six proposed topics, graduates choose one for their creative work, – quotes the press service of the Government of Sevastopol acting. Director of the Department of Education and Science Maxim Krivonos.

This year’s graduates were asked to reflect on one of the following topics:

• “What prevents a person from being happy?
• “Do you agree that sometimes you have to accept your fate?”
• “Which of the topics M.Yu. Lermontov is closer to you: “I am looking for freedom and peace” or “So life is boring when there is no struggle”?”
• “What qualities should people have who can change the world for the better?”
• “Can communication with nature change a person?”
• “Literature and cinema: rivalry or cooperation?”

The topics that are closest to me are those related to the spiritual and moral guidelines of a person. After all, for the most part, Russian literature is aimed at a person’s inner experiences, feelings, emotions, moral choices. Many arguments can be made from the literature on this topic. I believe that literary experience will also help in real life, because the most vivid emotions occur during a person’s growing up period, so the experience of literary heroes is important to me. For me, the richest sources of argument are “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky and “Fathers and Sons” by Ivan Turgenev,” the press service of the Government of Sevastopol quotes Yegor Potapov, a student at the Cossack Bay educational center.

The final essay is graded on a pass/fail system. To receive a “credit”, the work must be independent and have a volume of at least 250 words, and also correspond to the stated topic, contain argumentation from a literary source and be positively assessed according to one of such criteria as “Literacy”, “Composition and logic of reasoning”, «Quality of written speech.»

The results of the final essay will be known by December 20.

source: press service of the Government of Sevastopol

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