TPO - The Ministry of Education and Training has announced a system of sample exam questions for the 2025 high school graduation exam for students studying under the new curriculum. According to many teachers and experts, this year's exam is quite strange and "shocking".
MSc. Nguyen Thanh Cong, High School for the Gifted, University of Education, commented that for most subjects, the general feedback from teachers and students was "difficult", achieving high scores was not as easy as in previous years.
Regarding Biology, Mr. Cong said that in terms of breadth of knowledge, it covers all 3 years of grades 10, 11 and 12; there are questions that overlap the knowledge content of both years; grade 12 knowledge still dominates with a ratio of more than 80%; grade 10 and 11 knowledge accounts for a smaller proportion.
Because the exam is built according to the new program with the orientation of developing capacity, the exam has the nature of strongly assessing the candidate's capacity. Many questions of the exam include practical elements, events, situations that occur in the laboratory, in research units or in nature and human production activities.
"However, in my subjective opinion, we should bring up real, practical problems that have happened and are happening in the present and in the future, requiring candidates to come up with solutions or choose solutions to solve the problem. Limit thinking of practical things" - Mr. Cong expressed his opinion.
The Biology exam for the first time reduced the “calculation element” to a minimum, bringing knowledge to the nature of Biology. However, the difficulty of the exam did not decrease. The difficulty was shown in the true and false questions and the data entry questions that showed a deep understanding of the knowledge, logical thinking and calculation skills; but the ingenuity in calculation was no longer there.
With the goal of the exam being to consider graduation and university admission, through the increase in difficulty of the exam we see several problems.
Mr. Cong believes that the graduation exam scores will decrease, eliminating the phenomenon of a rain of 10s; however, combining graduation exam scores and academic transcript scores to consider graduation will help maintain the graduation rate without affecting it.
The test scores decrease, the peak of the score spectrum will not approach 10 or 30 anymore, there is a large gap from the peak to the maximum number, this helps differentiate candidates better for different training units to consider, avoiding the situation of 29 points still failing the university entrance exam.
"With a higher level of differentiation, universities will maintain or return to admission based on graduation exam scores due to higher accuracy, while admission based on academic records or combined academic records will decline. Perhaps, the Government will have a document to guide universities to use graduation scores for admission, creating fairness between regions and candidates" - Mr. Cong commented.
Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Van Khanh, senior lecturer at Hanoi National University of Education, member of the 2018 general education program development board, and editor of the Physics program for the 2018 high school graduation reference exam, said that from 2025, in order to better assess learners' abilities and reduce the probability of guessing in exam questions, the high school graduation exam will change its exam format.
According to the decision of the Ministry of Education and Training last March, except for foreign languages, the structure of the exam questions for objective tests has three parts. Part I includes familiar multiple choice questions; Part II includes yes/no questions and Part III is short answer questions.
"The reference questions for the 2025 high school graduation exam announced by the Ministry of Education and Training on October 18 have this format structure," Mr. Khanh emphasized.
Regarding the opinion that the Physics reference exam is "good" and "strange", Mr. Dao Tuan Dat - lecturer of General Physics at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, academic advisor of Einstein High School (Dong Da, Hanoi) said that one of the reasons why many people think so is probably because the recently announced reference exams have a familiar multiple choice question format, with additional true/false and short answer questions.
In addition, due to many years of focusing on practicing calculation-oriented questions, the newly published reference questions have reduced the number of questions requiring complex calculations, giving us the feeling that the questions seem "interesting" and "strange".
"The reference questions that the Ministry of Education and Training has just announced are the test questions that have gone through testing and evaluation stages on a number of students. After analyzing the score distribution after testing, these questions have been adjusted to have a suitable difficulty level for the high school graduation exam according to the requirements of the 2018 General Education Program," said Mr. Dat.
Source: https://tienphong.vn/de-tham-khao-tot-nghiep-thpt-2025-co-that-la-hay-la-khien-nhieu-nguoi-choang-post1684894.tpo
![[Photo] Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chairs Government Conference with localities on economic growth](https://vstatic.vietnam.vn/vietnam/resource/IMAGE/2025/2/21/f34583484f2643a2a2b72168a0d64baa)
Comment (0)