The Unified State Exam involved about 5.1 thousand venues, which were attended by more than 13 thousand public observers. 

“During the USE, all the measures of epidemiological safety recommended by Rospotrebnadzor were observed.

All points of the Unified State Exam and the adjacent territories were guarded by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Guard, ”the message says.

The exam passed as usual, the department concluded.

The Unified State Exam in 2021 runs from May 31 to July 17.

Head of the Center for Monitoring the Quality of Education of the Institute of Education of the National Research University Higher School of Economics Viktor Bolotov, in an interview with Izvestia, called the main obstacle to holding the Unified State Exam in the online format the inability to control the transparency of the exam.