Are posts about the associate professor of the journalism faculty of Moscow State University, which in 2025 complain about illiterate freshmen?

In March 2025, interviews with a teacher of Moscow State University, who spoke of extremely low literacy among students, spread in social networks. We checked the reliability of this information.

In an interview with the Department of Stylistics of the Russian Language of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, Anastasia Nikolaeva talks about the results of installation dictations that freshmen write every year: “Usually three or four people can not cope with them, but the results of this year turned out to be monstrous. Of the 229 freshmen, eight and fewer errors made only 18%to the text page. The remaining 82%, including 15 eGE stobalniks, made an average of 24–25 errors. In almost every word, three or four errors that distort its meaning to recognition. It is simply impossible to understand many words. In fact, these are not words, but their conditional reproduction. ” As examples of such errors, the teacher gives the words “over-Chur”, “orrest”, “apricot” and “SPRSTS”. “You know, I’ve been giving dictations for 20 years, but I have never seen this,” Nikolaev said. In the social network X The thread With this interview I gained 360,000 views, it was also widely discussed in "VKontakte" And FacebookWhere one of the posts scored more than 2200 reposts.

Nikolaev has guilty for such mistakes on a single state exam (exam) and "Albanian language"-subcultural jargon, popular in the Russian-speaking blogosphere of the 2000s. His mention suggests that the teacher most likely gave an interview for a long time. Indeed, his text is more than once Bruthered V social networks And Media, and the original was published in the newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets»In November 2009. In that year, the passage of the exam is just She became mandatory To obtain a certificate of secondary education.

Before that during eight years The exam was carried out in various trial formats in certain regions of Russia, and all this time around the educational reform was going on active polemic. Nikolaev also became one of the critics of the new system. At the end of October 2009, she outlined her thoughts in the article "Astap Blender as a Sofet quart. The literacy of excellent students in the exam kills university teachers"Published by the publication" Private correspondent ". The article caused a resonance in the Russian -language segment of the Internet, and this, in turn, attracted the attention of the traditional press: the newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets»Published subsequently a viral interview with Nikolaeva,"New news"We talked with representatives and other universities, and"Russian newspaper»I interviewed the dean of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University Elena Vartanova. She, unlike Nikolaeva, did not think that the cause of the poor results of the dictation lies in the exam. “The Unified State Exam is both a check of school knowledge and the instrument with which it is selected to universities. But the literacy level of school graduates completely does not depend on which tool was used - a test, dictation or essay. If the level is generally low, then it is low, ”said Vartanova.

At the same time, in her article, Nikolaev wrote that she spent a dictation on her own initiative: “Before that, this practice is to give a common dictation to the whole rate in October - we had no at the faculty.” And in an interview with the Moscow Komsomolets, it was already approved by another thing: “We write installation dictations to identify the level of knowledge of freshmen every year.” Vartanova also said: “The so -called installation dictations are students of the Faculty of Journalism in the first semester always wrote, and this year was no exception. This is a long -term tradition of our department of style of the Russian language. ”

Thus, the text about the illiteracy of freshmen of the journalism faculty of Moscow State University is not related to the current students of this university in 2025. In fact, the authors of viral posts quote the 2009 interview, not making appropriate reservations.

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