How to go to university at 12 years old

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The recipe is simple: parents must educate their children themselves. To teach them the method of independent search and consolidation of knowledge. True, in this particular case, the parents themselves received a full-fledged education at the Moscow State Technical University. N. E. Bauman.

In the summer of 2018, 11-year-old Annissa Salieva passed the exam. She graduated from school as an external student, halving the study time. In September, the girl will become a student at one of the Moscow universities. Annissa chose the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, like her older sister Camilla, who entered there 12 years ago at the same age. How parents managed to teach their children the school curriculum in such a short time - in the RT material.

Obstacle path

On the wall in the apartment of the Saliev family is a photograph of 2006: Madina's mother is holding a newborn Annissa in her arms, next to her father and 11-year-old Camilla, who has just passed the exam. After 12 years, her younger sister will repeat her experience.

This summer, 11-year-old Annissa went to Novosibirsk to take exams. Sleep after a difficult flight to Siberia - only two hours, then - long journeys from one school to another. “Before the exam, I was more tired than on the exam itself,” the girl recalls.

As a result, the fatigue affected the grades. Annissa admits that she solved the test tasks by almost 100 points, but the first results were not as high as she expected.

Family photo of the Salievs, 2006 RT

“We had all the probes for 90 points, and she passed the Unified State Exam in computer science at 64. Then she returned to normal, acclimatized, and went on increasing: mathematics - 76, Russian - 82,” says the mother of the graduate.

The family had to travel 3 thousand kilometers to pass the exams, since they refused to take Annissa to school in their native Moscow: the directors were skeptical about Madina Salieva's desire to teach her daughter according to an individual schedule and without reference to specific textbooks. True, when Annissa was supposed to go to the first grade, one of the capital's schools still allowed her to pass the program for the fourth. After that, the Saliev family received refusals everywhere.

When the girl was ten years old, her mother found a school in Novosibirsk, where Annissa was able to pass the program in four grades at once and entered the ninth.

Above a work table sealed with formulas and tables, a camera was installed with which she passed all exams and communicated with teachers. I had to travel only for the Basic and Unified State Exams (OGE and USE), as well as for the final essay in the 11th grade.

School at home

The girl was taught by her mother. Since childhood, she read books to her daughters, talked about science, tried to instill in them an interest in learning. “It turned out that by the age of five the children already knew the whole program, and there was no point in going to first grade,” says Madina Salieva.

Annissa's day usually began at ten in the morning. While preparing for the exams, she spent three hours on each subject. Particular emphasis is on your favorite mathematics. At the same time, the girl has a principle: she does not forget about her studies even on holidays.

“I practice every day for at least 15 minutes. Even on New Year's and birthday,”she shares her secret.

All subjects, except English, are taught to my daughter by her mother. There is no rigid schedule in such a “school”: Annissa is in charge of her time. The main condition is that by evening all the tasks from the cards prepared by the mother must be completed.

“I am preparing her daily assignment sheets and just putting them on the table. She wakes up in the morning and does it during the day. She plans everything herself: either she will draw, or play, or now she wants to take a walk. If any questions arise, then they turn to me, to their father or Camilla, to help them figure it out,”explains Madina, a systems engineer by training, who, according to her, eventually decided to devote herself to children.

Sister as an example

Annissa really has someone to turn to for help with her studies. In the Saliev family, all techies: mother and father met while studying at the Moscow State Technical University. N. E. Bauman, then they worked together, the eldest daughter Camilla graduated from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and now works as an analyst in one of the largest banks in the country.

Annissa entered the same specialty at the same university. Sister is in many ways an example for her.

So, Annissa had never attended a class in her life. The girl admitted that she never had such a desire - perhaps because of her sister, who motivated her to take the exam earlier than her peers. At one time, Camilla still persuaded her parents to send her to school, but it soon became clear that at home she was able to master the curriculum faster.

The Saliev family RT

Probably, the reason is also that there is enough communication with peers at the numerous circles and sections that the girl attends. Believe it or not, Annissa has time not only to study the program, which is designed for children aged 17-18. In her free time, she is engaged in piano, chess and beading, and also teaches Japanese.

The girl does not plan to give up her hobbies even at the institute, but she is thinking about how to reduce her studies at the university. As Annissa's mother says, her favorite phrase is: “Why take slowly what can be done quickly”.

When asked if Annissa is worried before meeting her classmates, who are now 17-18 years old, the girl shyly replies: "No, they won't eat me."

Annissa Salieva on a walk RT

Camilla recalls that she herself was not talkative at the age of 11. However, this did not stop her from making friends at the university who are much older. At the beginning of the training, no one even realized how old Camilla was, and she was made the head of the course. Therefore, the girl is sure that her younger sister will not have any problems at the university.

“I was treated well. I remember that in the first year the guys put "Rastishka" on the table for me. Well, they teased, of course, kindly,”she laughs.

Camilla still had difficulties, but after graduating from university. Nobody wanted to take the 17-year-old graduate for serious work. Employers simply ignored her resume, believing that at this age she had not yet graduated from college. Therefore, the girl decided to cheat a little and indicated in the questionnaire that she was 22 years old.

So Camilla found her first job. At the age of 19, she became the head of the analytics department, many of her subordinates were older than their boss.

Well-established conveyor

In an interview with RT, Camilla noted that she would choose this way of teaching for her children.

“I’m not going to teach them myself - I’ll swag on my mom. We already have a well-established assembly line,”the girl smiled.

Annissa Salieva and her mother Madina do RT lessons

Madina Salieva reacts only positively to such statements. She is sure that absolutely any child can complete 11 grades of school in fewer years.

“Children are curious. If you help them somehow find answers to questions, form a habit of learning, then you can master the program - 11 years in four or three years,”the woman said.

At the same time, she refuses to call her children child prodigies.

“They do not know how to multiply seven-digit numbers in their minds and do not extract roots from six-digit numbers,” explains the mother. - They are ordinary children. They just love to learn, they love it."