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In the article, the features are shown of mastering the humanitarian disciplines by the students of higher education; the analysis is performed of existing tests (from the sociology area) in terms of their pedagogical potential and conformity to the main principles of testing. The features of the test technologies usage in practice are revealed. The basic complexities are shown of working out the tests in humanitarian areas of knowledge and the potential ways of their overcoming are designated. The approaches to the algorithms of estimating the test results are analyzed. There are formulated the most urgent problems which the developers of pedagogical tests are faced with; their realization in the pedagogical practice is shown. On the basis of his own research, conducted during 3 years, the author substantiates the necessity of a complex approach to resolving the problems of testing. This approach presupposes the usage of the system-activity, individually-differentiated, integrative-developing and contextually-modular approaches.