Hotline

You could say that this project is where my charity foundation started. So for me this has always been something special. There were many people who didn’t believe in this project, who said there would be difficulties and had doubts; but I decided to stick with my original plan and have never regretted this in the least.

Over the past few years the Common State Exam (CSE) has been a matter of concern to many people – teachers, pupils, parents, scientific and public figures. And to this day there’s still not single point of view on the issue. Pupils who have to sit the CSE are encountering all sorts of difficulties; there’s a lot that’s new and incomprehensible for them in the CSE, and all sorts of questions are coming up. Having talked to kids and heard about all these problems, I realized that they were very much in need of help. And that’s when I had the idea of providing advice on the CSE – a free hotline on which any pupil or parent could get advice on CSE subjects and procedure. And that’s how the hotline project came about.

• 20.09.2011
  Youth Hotline (2011)
  State Duma Deputy Alina Kabaeva’s hotline is now providing advice on youth issues, with questions from young people being fielded by an employment lawyer and a psychologist.
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• 08.06.2011
  When will the Unified State Examination Results be announced?
  The regional information processing centre should finish processing the Unified State Examination (USE) papers no later than 6 days after each exam is held.
  
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• 07.06.2011
  USE Scam
  I recently received a letter on the website from someone who’d been tricked by conmen offering help to pass the Unified State Examination. This was an internet site that promised to provide people with full information about how to answer the USE questions, with payment for the service by mobile phone...
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• 02.06.2011
  USE Russian Language Exam and Commas
  Guys, over the past few days our USE hotline has received lots of messages from you asking whether answers to Question B8 in the USE Russian Language exam will count if they contain no commas.
  
  
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• 16.05.2011
  How Parents can help you pass the USE
  “My son is in the 11th form and I’m dreading his exams. The USE is such a lot of stress for our children…Let them finish school properly without all this stress...Do something, please! - we’ve not got much time left. Help us!”
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• 20.04.2011
  USE 2011 Hotline
  From 20th April, you can get advice from the Alina Kabaeva USE hotline on the main exam subjects: Russian, Mathematics, History, Chemistry, Physics, Geography and Biology, and also on procedural issues.
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• 20.11.2010
  Common State Exam 2010 Hotline
  The first thing to say is that the questions have become more substantive; there’s less panic and more of effort to seek advice on how to act in various situations. Last year, the pupils and their parents were more worried about marks and the fact that the new exam format made it difficult for the kids to show how much they know and pulled their marks down.
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• 08.09.2010
  Youth Hotline (2010)
  As usual, once the Hotline had finished providing advice on the Common State Exam, it began advising on youth issues from August 2010.
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• 06.08.2010
  New Book: “Surrender, CSE!”
  In April 2010 we brought out a book called “Surrender, CSE!” which looks back over the Hotline’s first two years (2008-9).
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• 03.08.2009
  Youth hotline
  As usual, after the CSE hotline closed down in August 2009, the line started providing advice on youth issues.
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• 08.07.2009
  POST SCRIPTUM (CSE Hotline 2009)
  The hotline has now closed, but the calls keep coming in…
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• 01.07.2009
  Meeting with the Experts (CSE Hotline 2009)
  After the CSE hotline closed down I met the consultants who had been working on it. I want to stress again that all the experts who worked on the line were very high-calibre professionals.
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• 07.04.2009
  2009 CSE hotline (April – June 2009)
  From 7 April to 16 June advice was available from the hotline via the following e-mail address: ege@kabaeva-alina.ru, and from 21 May to 16 June, via call-free telephone 8-800-505-12-05.
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• 01.08.2008
  Youth hotline (August 2008 – March 2009)
  In June 2008 the CSE hotline closed down, but the calls kept coming in. And not only about the Common State exam, but about other topical youth issues as well. And this is when we decided to keep the hotline open all year round.
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• 15.05.2008
  2008 CSE Hotline (May – June 2008)
  The hotline project went live on 15 May 2008. We launched a telephone hotline to provide advice on specific subjects.
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• 13.10.0009
  “Jobfinders” programme
  In September, I was approached by a film crew from TVC and asked to help make a programme for children who, for various reasons, were unable to continue their studies this year (didn’t get into an institute, academy, college etc.)
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