Exam invigilators call candidates into the exam room at the 9th grade gifted student exam site of Marie Curie High School - Photo: NHU HUNG
This year, the excellent student exam for 9th graders in Ho Chi Minh City was held at 5 exam locations.
Candidates taking foreign language exams (English, French, Chinese, Japanese) will take the exam at Nguyen Van To Secondary School, District 10.
Candidates taking the literature and natural science exams will take the exams at Marie Curie High School, District 3.
Candidates taking the math, history and geography exams will take the exams at Tran Dai Nghia Secondary and High School, District 1.
Candidates taking the IT exam will take the exam at Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted, District 5.
Candidates taking the technology exam will take the exam at Ha Huy Tap Secondary School, Binh Thanh District.
According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, this year's 9th grade excellent student exam has many new points compared to the previous school year. This is the first year students take the exam according to the new program (2018 general education program). Therefore, the department will create exam questions that are oriented towards assessing thinking ability and applying learned knowledge to solve practical problems.
This year is also the first year that there are new subjects in the exam: natural science, history and geography.
The exam for natural sciences will have two parts. The compulsory part (accounting for 30% of the total score) is related to general knowledge of natural sciences.
In the optional part (accounting for 70% of the score), students can choose 1 of 3 content streams: matter and change of matter, Earth and sky; energy and change, Earth and sky; living things, Earth and sky.
Candidates are confident and happy before the exam. Photo taken at the Marie Curie High School exam site for the 2024-2025 city-level excellent 9th grade student selection exam - Photo: NHU HUNG
For history and geography, students can choose one of two subjects: history or geography.
In computer science, candidates will take a programming test on a computer.
For foreign languages, there will be a listening test.
The exam time for each subject is 120 minutes.
Candidates for the 9th grade excellent student exam are students studying in grade 9 at secondary schools in the 2024-2025 school year in Ho Chi Minh City; with good or better academic and training results in the first semester; and are members of the excellent student teams of participating units.
Candidates look at the exam room diagram at the 2024-2025 city-level exam to select excellent 9th grade students - Photo: NHU HUNG
First prize winner of 9th grade excellent student contest is awarded 10 million VND
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training said it will consider the awards for this year's city-level 9th grade excellent student competition as follows:
Only individual prizes (first, second, third) are awarded for each subject; The percentage of students winning prizes is not more than 60% of the total number of students taking the exam (in which the number of students winning first prizes is not more than 5% of the total number of students winning prizes); The condition for winning a prize is that the candidate's exam must achieve 10/20 points or more.
It is known that students who win first prize in the city-level 9th grade excellent student competition will be rewarded according to Resolution 02/2021 of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council, specifically 10 million VND/student.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/3-500-thi-sinh-thi-hoc-sinh-gioi-lop-9-o-tp-hcm-co-2-mon-thi-moi-20250314075302547.htm
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