FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF ORGANIZING THE QUALIFYING STAGE FOR STUDENT OLYMPIADS

Abstract

This article deals with the issues of increasing the motivation of university students to study special disciplines by selecting students through testing for further participation in the Olympiad, on the example of the Olympiad in the discipline «Biological Chemistry». The author share their experience in drawing up various forms of test tasks for the qualifying round of the Olympiad in Biological Chemistry. The variants of tasks used during the Olympiad in the correspondence stage of the Olympiad are described. In the period from 2012 to 2021, about 1500 students from 58 Russian universities took part in the Olympiad among students of higher educational institutions of various fields. The growing interest in this Olympiad increases the level of competition, expands the boundaries of the Olympiad movement, and helps to form a unified educational Olympiad environment in biochemistry.