On the finishing of the Olympiad for foreign students of preparatory faculties

The Olympiad for foreign students of preparatory faculties in higher educational organizations of the Russian Federation, which was held on the basis of the preparatory faculty for foreign students of KFU in April-May 2020, is completed.

Top 112 foreign students from the following higher educational organizations in Russia became participants in the first stage of the Olympiad: Kazan (Volga) Federal University, the Preparatory Department of Naberezhnye Chelny Institute of KFU, Kazan State Medical University, Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev-KAI, Kazan State Energy University, Kazan State Institute of Culture, Kurgan State University, Ulyanovsk State University, NRU Higher School of Economics, Udmurt State University.

On April 17, 2020, participants wrote an essay on the set topics: “Once in Russia”, “Russia through the eyes of a foreigner”, “I learned that in Russia ...”, “My first day in Russia”, “The city where I live and study”. The work were assessed for the completeness and information content, the logic and coherence, grammatical correctness, creativity. The jury determined 75 people to participate in the second stage.

On May 15, 2020, participants in the second stage of the Olympiad remotely passed Russian language oral tour, and on May 16, 2020 they completed assignments in subjects of the specialty. Foreign students showed their knowledge of biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, history and social studies in Russian.

According to the results of the second stage, there were determined the winners and prize-winners of the Olympiad. The results of the Olympiad will be known during the online conference, which will be held in the near future.