On January 12, the Institute of Philology, Foreign Languages, and Media Communication of ISU held a seminar "Christmas Meetings" within the framework of the "University to School" program. The teachers of the Russian language and literature, the Buryat language and literature, foreign languages, as well as high school students attended the seminar. The seminar discussed the preparation for the standardized national test on the declared subjects and the topical issues of the theory and practice of the subjects in question. In total, sixty teachers who received certificates of short-term advanced training and thirty students took part in the "Christmas Meetings".