What exams do I need to take for a psychologist to enter a university?

Long before graduation, many students have a question: what profession to choose? Some decide to connect their lives with psychology. At the same time, you should definitely find out what exams you need to pass to a psychologist when you enter a university.

When choosing a future specialty, you need to know what it is, and before the end of the eleventh grade, you need to clearly understand where to go, what subjects you have to "tighten," if you have problems. The profession of a psychologist has remained in demand for many years. A specialist of this profile can work at school, kindergarten, at the enterprise, in government agencies, he can conduct consultations at home, open his own office.

The profession is suitable for those who do not like routine work. After all, every day you will have to help people in solving their problems, solve certain problems for themselves, together with patients, look for a way out in different everyday situations and complex psychological dramas. It is interesting to work with children, helping them to adapt to the world around them, to establish relationships with their peers. It is equally important to help people of extreme professions deal with stress and create comfortable conditions for psychological unloading.

When deciding on a future university and faculty, it is best to know in advance which exams after grade 11 will need to be taken for admission. Exams may vary from institution to institution. But most often in universities you need to take the following exams for a psychologist:

• Russian language;
• mathematics;
• biology.

To do this, it is enough to provide the results of the exam, which they pass in school after 11th grade. In some universities, results in social studies may be needed. One cannot exclude the option of a creative competition, in the process of which they can offer to write an essay on a psychological topic. Nobody will force to penetrate into the depths of the science of psychology. It can be a simple topic, for example, “What, in your opinion, is the profession of a psychologist?”, “What attracts you to the profession of a psychologist?”, “What skills do you think a psychologist needs?”.

In addition, an interview will be an important stage, during which you can understand a lot: how communicative a person is, how he is guided in certain situations in the process of communication, how stress-resistant and friendly he is. In fact, there is nothing wrong with either the interview or the creative competition. The main thing is to be confident and calm. And if the student successfully studied at school, was preparing for admission, then all tests will be able to pass without problems and enter the selected university. It’s best to go to a psychologist after grade 11. But there are different options, when time has passed, the results of the exam are already invalid. In this case, you will have to pass exams on admission to those subjects that the university has established. It can be Russian, mathematics, biology, social studies. Plus to them, an essay (creative competition) and an interview are possible.

Another option - after grade 9. But you won’t be able to go to a psychologist right away, and to get a more suitable preparation, you can go to a medical college. Upon admission, you will have to pass the Russian language, mathematics, biology, chemistry. After graduating from a secondary special educational institution, you can continue studying at a university. Some aspects of psychology can already be studied at a medical college, and this will be a good help in admission.

Another option is to graduate from a teacher training college, and after that go to college at the faculty of psychology. Exams at teacher training college may vary depending on the chosen specialty. It will be necessarily the Russian language and mathematics, history, social science, literature can be added to them.

But to pass successfully the Unified State Exam, pass creative tests - this is far from all. Knowing things well is half the battle. In the process of training at the university will appear a lot of subjects that will help to master the specialty. But at the same time, it will not work to become a good psychologist if a person does not possess certain qualities, without which this profession can not do. These include a number of such characteristics.

• Love for people. The problems and interests of people should be worried not only as a means of making money. First of all, you need to be able to look at the problem through the eyes of your patient, to penetrate it, to have a great desire to help.
• Stress resistance. Very often, the psychologist will encounter people who show their negative emotions. But in all situations, you need to maintain composure, learn to reassure people in the most unforeseen circumstances.
• Sociability. The ability to listen attentively or tell something important at the right time, to explain some points in an accessible language - all this is necessary for the psychologist to work with.
• Grammatically correct speech. The psychologist must be well educated, his speech must comply with all the norms of the Russian language, be clear and distinct. Moreover, in any situation, the psychologist should talk calmly.
• Goodwill. The presence of a positive attitude and a friendly attitude will help to win over the patient. He must see that the specialist is interested in helping him.
• Wide outlook. This is also necessary in order to support any conversation, back up your words with arguments, distract the client from sad thoughts, and reassure.

All this needs to be considered at school, in order not only to prepare for general subjects, but also to understand whether there are those qualities that in the future will help to devote oneself to the chosen specialty. If you have a great desire to go specifically to a psychologist, you need to purposefully go to this and cultivate these qualities in yourself. Maybe besides the main items, it is worth signing up for psychology courses that will help with admission, read literature. Then, in addition to the necessary items that are required upon admission, it will be possible to successfully pass a creative competition and an interview.

There are a lot of universities that you can enter to study as a psychologist. Almost every city has such an educational institution. The faculties may be called differently, but in each name, of course, the word "psychology" will be present.

Here are just some of the higher education institutions that you can pay attention to:

• New Russian University (Moscow);
• State Technical University named after G. I. Nosova (Magnitogorsk);
• Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (Moscow);
• Moscow State University of M.V. Lomonosov (Moscow);
• Kurgan State University (Kurgan);
• Moscow State Linguistic University (Moscow).

In any institution of higher education you can enter both for free and on a paid basis. To enter for free, you need to pass all entrance tests flawlessly and get a high score.

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