EGE math exam
Grade 11 adds derivatives, trigonometry and solid geometry to the curriculum, but what trips students up more often is what was never understood earlier. Preparation for the EGE, Russia’s state exam after grade 11, covers all of math, not just the topics of the last two years.
How the prep is built
A practice paper shows what the student can’t do. It doesn’t say why. Until the cause is found, the next paper will end the same way — only with less time left before the EGE.
A progression problem goes unsolved not because the student has never seen progressions, but because somewhere earlier fractions or exponents never clicked. The knowledge check looks for the cause instead of just recording the mistake.
Topics are connected: you can’t get one until you’ve got the one before it. The order of preparation is built on these connections, so you don’t have to go back over covered material at random.
Problems from real exam papers are worked through step by step — with questions for the student and hints at the point where they got stuck. Copying the answer won’t work: the goal is for them to solve it on their own next time.
The estimated score and the list of weak topics are updated as you study. It’s clear what’s already done and what still stands between you and the result you need.
How the prep goes
The EGE in math comes in two versions — advanced (officially the “profile” level) and basic — and they are two different sets of task numbers. Inside, each has a structure of its own: the tasks of a real exam paper, and behind each task exactly the micro-lessons it needs.
There are as many blocks as there are tasks in a real EGE paper. Open a task number — inside is only what that particular task needs.
The same topic comes up in several task numbers at once, while a solution method belongs to just one. That’s why the task numbers are put together from the official exam papers and by method: a block holds nothing extra, and nothing is repeated twice.
It determines how well that task number is already mastered. The result decides how many micro-lessons open up next: the better you did, the fewer. Nobody is going to explain all over again what the student can already do.
The time left until the exam, how many times a week to study, the score you need and the scope of the curriculum: only what the exam requires, everything from the beginning up to the current grade, or the entire curriculum. Change a setting, and the set of micro-lessons in the task numbers changes.
The top of the screen always shows how many sessions are left to the goal. If the chosen settings don’t leave enough time, the platform says so plainly and offers a choice: move the deadline, lower the target score or study more often. It won’t quietly bend the numbers to fit what you’d like to see.
What the prep covers
The exam doesn’t test the names of topics — it tests the ability to solve specific problems. So the curriculum is broken down further: section — skill — solution method — worked example.
There is one knowledge base for all of math, but each exam has its own preparation route. That’s why the numbers for the OGE (the state exam after grade 9) and the EGE are different: the EGE requires its own set of skills and solution methods, and nothing extra makes it into the plan.
equations and inequalities of every kind, including exponential and logarithmic ones
plane and solid geometry: volumes, cross-sections, angles in space
analyzing functions, graphs, properties
the derivative, maximum and minimum values, the antiderivative
divisibility, properties of numbers — the basis of problems with a parameter
percentages, parts of a whole, word problems
identities, equations, inverse functions
coordinates and vectors in the plane and in space
conditional probability, repeated trials
working with data and the ways it is presented
rigor of reasoning — where points are lost in Part 2
The free study tool “Build the Definition” is a handy way to learn the exact wording and the theory for the exam, and “Find the Changes” lets you test yourself. Both tools are in Russian.
What it costs
Base helps with the current school curriculum; Exam adds preparation on the exam topics and walkthroughs of problems from exam papers.
For everyday schoolwork
₽2,490/mo
per child
First two weeks free
When the OGE or EGE exam is ahead
₽3,990/mo
per child
First two weeks free
The subscription can pay for itself: for everyone who subscribes through your link, you get back 15% of what they pay. How Invite & Earn works
Lessons, exercises and the tutor’s explanations on the platform are in Russian and follow the Russian school curriculum. The platform interface is available in English.
Preparation covers all of math, and the depth depends on which topics you take. The advanced-level areas — the derivative, trigonometric equations, solid geometry, problems with a parameter — are part of the curriculum; for the basic level, they simply won’t be in the plan.
There is, and the sooner the better. The knowledge check will find the earliest topic you didn’t understand — it often turns out to be in grade 8 or 9 — and build the plan from there. Starting with Part 2 before the foundation is in place means wasting time.
Yes. Part 2 problems are worked through step by step, including how the solution is written up: in Part 2, points are deducted not only for a wrong answer but also for a missing justification.
Yes. In the goal you set the score you need, the deadline and how often you study, and these determine how much there is to cover: the higher the goal, the more micro-lessons open up in the task numbers. If there isn’t enough time with the chosen settings, the platform will say so and suggest moving the deadline, lowering the score or studying more often.
No. The content of the micro-lessons is put together and checked in advance. The model may generate a problem for a knowledge check, if no ready-made example was found for a particular solution method, or a review card — but not the lesson itself.
It will come back. The platform tracks when a topic was covered but didn’t stick, and offers it again — with a different explanation and different problems — until the result holds steady.
Yes, the platform runs in the browser on a phone and on a computer. There’s no separate app to install.
It finds the earliest topic that wasn’t understood — often it turns out to be long before grade 11 — and builds the preparation plan from there.
