How to prepare for Azerbaijan's 9th and 11th grade final exams at home

What each exam covers

Both exams are run by the State Examination Centre (DİM) in the same three subjects: your language of instruction (Azerbaijani or Russian), maths and a foreign language, for a maximum of 300 points. The 11th-grade result also counts as stage one of university admission (the block exam has its own guide, linked below).

Closed tasks give you options to choose from. Coded tasks don't: you find the answer, usually a number, and enter it in cells on the answer sheet. Written tasks need your own answer or a full solution, which examiners mark against criteria. The current models:

• 9th grade: language of instruction 30 tasks, 20 of them on two texts and 4 answered in writing; maths 25 (15 closed, 6 coded, 4 full solutions); foreign language on the newer model DİM introduced in 2025
• 11th grade: 85 tasks in 180 minutes: language of instruction 30, maths 25 (closed, coded and full-solution tasks), foreign language 30 with listening and reading
• From 2027 the 11th-grade foreign-language paper changes to 25 closed tasks (listening, reading, grammar and vocabulary) plus one written paragraph giving your opinion

A preparation timeline: three months, one month, the last week

Start where you lose points. Do one full practice paper per subject against the clock and list each mistake with its topic and cause: didn't know it, misread it, slipped in a calculation or ran out of time. DİM publishes the subject programmes on dim.gov.az, and each programme ends with a list of DİM's own practice books for the exam model, such as test collections and a book of 20 practice papers. The programme is your topic list.

OrujovAI's /exam builds free DİM-format tests at a “9th grade final” level and an “Abituriyent” level that suits 11th graders, explains the answers and shows your weak topics. They are multiple-choice practice, not official papers, and have no coded or written tasks, so practise those with DİM's books. Hard to study alone? A study room (/study) puts you on one timer with other students.

1. Three months out: 45 to 60 minutes a day on one weak topic, rotating subjects, a mixed set at the weekend, and a mistake notebook you re-solve a few days later.
2. One month out: one full practice paper a week in the real time limit, no phone, marked honestly against the answers and criteria. Spend the next days on what it exposed.
3. Last week: no new topics; short sets, the mistake notebook, a final look at how the answer sheet is filled in, and proper sleep.

Practice by subject: language, maths, foreign language

Language of instruction: most of the tasks are about texts. Read a text a day and answer in writing: what is the main idea, what does this word mean here, which sentence proves it. Revise the rules from the programme one topic at a time.

Maths: learn a topic, study a worked example, then solve similar problems without looking, always writing out the full solution. Stuck? Solve (/solve) takes a typed or photographed problem, explains it step by step with a graph and gives you a similar one to try. Live Tutor (/tutor) has free example lessons on percentages, quadratic equations and linear functions, taught in Azerbaijani.

Foreign language: a short recording with questions every day, one short article, grammar in small doses, and timed writing: an opinion, two reasons with examples, a conclusion. OrujovAI's chat can review a paragraph and point out grammar errors; that is practice, not official marking.

Use AI to learn, not to cheat: phones and other devices are not allowed in the exam hall.

Coded and open-ended tasks: how to practise them

Coded tasks give you nothing to guess from: solve, then check by substituting the answer back or estimating. Learn in advance how a coded answer is written in the cells, so it costs you no time on the day.

Written tasks are marked against criteria, and in the scoring rules DİM has published a written task is worth twice a closed one. Write every step of a maths solution even if you can't finish it, answer language tasks in full sentences that draw on the text, and compare your work with the criteria in DİM's materials.

DİM states that wrong answers on the final exams don't affect your correct ones, so never leave a closed task blank. Check dim.gov.az in case the rules change.

Common mistakes on exam day

Many points lost on the day have nothing to do with knowledge:

• Ten minutes on one task. Mark it, move on, come back.
• Blank answers, or a coded answer in the wrong cells or format.
• Copying answers onto the answer sheet in the last minute.
• Skipping a long written task instead of writing the steps you can.
• Trusting “leaked” questions or answers sold online: the papers stay secret until the exam.
• Forgetting the documents DİM asks for, or bringing a phone.

Russian sector: preparing in Russian

The Russian sector sits the same structure in Russian, with Russian as the language of instruction. Pupils whose language of instruction isn't Azerbaijani also sit a separate exam in Azerbaijani as the state language, and Russian-sector 11th graders choose English, German or French as their foreign language. DİM publishes the programmes in Russian too.

Switch OrujovAI to Russian and /exam, Solve and the chat all work in Russian. /exam has no Russian-language subject yet; use DİM's programme and practice books for it.