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Finite difference schemes are often used for approximation of boundary value problems with generalized solutions. In such cases is preferable to have convergence result for the minimal smoothness of input data. This leads to several problems as: the right hand side of the equation and the solution may be discontinuous functions; small smoothness of the solution requires the convergence rate estimate in the weak norm; coefficients of the equation does not belong to standard Sobolev spaces etc. In the case of problems with singular coefficients the solution does not belongs to the standard Sobolev space. In this paper a survey of techniques for overcoming these problems is presented. A special attention is paid to deriving convergence rate estimates consistent with the smoothness of input data. Technique based on the Bramble-Hilbert lemma and interpolation technique are presented.