The educational and methodological manual allows you to independently prepare for the Russian language exam, conducted in the form of the Unified State Exam, dictation or testing upon admission to a university. The proposed manual is part of the “Become Literate!” series of publications. and contains tasks on punctuation rules, generalizing exercises on spelling and punctuation, tests that allow you to control the level of knowledge without the participation of a teacher, keys to all types of tasks, as well as a Dictionary of basic grammar concepts, which includes definitions and illustrative material. The manual is intended for older schoolchildren classes, students of preparatory courses, applicants for linguistic terms and all persons wishing to improve their literacy.