TPO - The Ministry of Education and Training has decided that the 6th grade admission plan for schools is based on selection, making parents who plan to enroll their children in high-quality schools or "famous" private schools restless. The Ministry of Education and Training has requested the Department of Education and Training to urgently develop and publish the principles and criteria for admission to 6th grade of junior high school in accordance with actual conditions so that parents can be proactive.
TPO - The Ministry of Education and Training has decided that the 6th grade admission plan for schools is based on selection, making parents who plan to enroll their children in high-quality schools or "famous" private schools restless. The Ministry of Education and Training has requested the Department of Education and Training to urgently develop and publish the principles and criteria for admission to 6th grade of junior high school in accordance with actual conditions so that parents can be proactive.
In recent years, in addition to secondary schools enrolling 6th graders according to the admission criteria, Hanoi has a model of high-quality schools and a number of "famous" private schools that have attracted the attention of tens of thousands of parents and students. With the number of applications tens of thousands of times larger than the enrollment quota, these schools are allowed by the Ministry of Education and Training to enroll students by combining admission and testing to assess students' abilities.
In fact, schools have organized large-scale 6th grade enrollment with 3 subjects: Math, Vietnamese, English, attracting a large number of students to participate. It is worth mentioning that each school has a different test format, parents whisper to each other, if they want to take the exam, they have to practice early.
Some parents even think that if they want their children to take the entrance exam to X or Y Middle School, they must be trained at school. The children are forced to go to extra classes at exam preparation centers until they are exhausted.
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Students take the entrance exam to grade 6 at a private school in Hanoi for the 2024-2025 school year. |
Remember, in the 2023-2024 school year, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training adjusted the criteria for admission to grade 6, Hanoi Amsterdam High School for the Gifted, causing many students to be eliminated. Many parents burst into tears when they set a goal for their children to enter their dream school, their children went to many extra classes, there were no Saturdays, Sundays or holidays, friends went out, children had time off but still had to go to school.
Based on that reality, the Ministry of Education and Training has recently adjusted the 6th grade admission method to "examine admission". With that regulation, private schools, high-quality schools and parents are confused and concerned about the admission criteria. In fact, this admission method was applied a decade ago but many problems arose such as: beautifying academic records, rushing into competitions to use awards as secondary criteria...
High scores in academic records but when entering school... they go downhill
Associate Professor Dr. Dang Quoc Thong, Chairman of the Board of Doan Thi Diem School, said that there must be a plan to select students because the quota is only one but the number of advanced registrations is two or three times. Not to mention, the school has classes to enhance Math, English, IT, etc., so it is necessary to assess whether the students' abilities are suitable or not.
“Elementary school transcripts have long been only moderately reliable. Many students have high scores but cannot study in school, so if admission is only based on records and transcripts, it will be very difficult for private schools,” Associate Professor Thong said.
Therefore, according to Mr. Thong, at this time the school is waiting for instructions from the Hanoi Department of Education and Training to enroll students for the next school year.
Ms. Van Thuy Duong, Vice Principal of Luong The Vinh Secondary and High School, Cau Giay campus (Hanoi) said that universalizing lower secondary education is a political task of general schools, but the public and private sectors have different characteristics. The public sector is fully subsidized by the State to carry out the task of universal education, the private sector must be completely self-sufficient to provide universal education services and high-quality education services according to the needs of society.
According to Ms. Duong, enrollment must be a breakthrough, in which private schools are free to enroll students according to the professional criteria of competent authorities, as well as ensuring requirements on facilities and teaching staff....
Only considering admission will make it difficult to ensure that the admission principles are objective, fair and serious because public opinion has been overwhelmed many times by the transcripts with perfect scores.
While there is no tool to ensure that the assessment of primary education quality (tests, transcripts) of schools is objective, serious, and fair, forcing both public and private schools to only recruit students based on transcripts is an adventure, a risk, and can increase the situation of asking for points, giving points, beautifying transcripts as well as "secondary criteria" for admission, creating prize races to get extra points for admission to grade 6.
Urgently develop criteria for admission to grade 6
In response to various opinions, Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Director of the Department of Secondary Education (Ministry of Education and Training), said that along with the regulation that the method of secondary school admission is examination, the Ministry of Education and Training has assigned the Departments of Education and Training to provide specific guidance on the examination criteria, ensuring that the examination is fair, objective, transparent, and suitable to the practical situation of the locality. In addition, for admission to any secondary school, the task of universalization must be carried out in the area.
On January 10, the Ministry of Education and Training continued to issue a document requesting the Departments of Education and Training to urgently develop and publish principles and criteria for admission to grade 6 of junior high school in accordance with local conditions so that students, parents, teachers and schools can clearly understand and be proactive in enrollment work.
"The Department of Education and Training sets up general admission criteria, then when there are still more applications than the assigned quota, it applies competency assessment methods such as: Q&A, presentation, writing... ", Head of the Department of Secondary Education (Ministry of Education and Training) Nguyen Xuan Thanh.
The Ministry of Education and Training requires: "For schools with the number of students registering to study exceeding the school's assigned quota, the Department of Education and Training guides schools to conduct student capacity assessment in the following forms (as prescribed in the student assessment regulations): Q&A, writing, presentation, practice, experiment,... ensuring that enrollment is carried out fairly, publicly, transparently, and in accordance with practical conditions.
Source: https://tienphong.vn/boi-roi-tuyen-sinh-lop-6-cho-huong-dan-tieu-chi-xet-tuyen-cua-so-giao-duc-post1708896.tpo
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