So that the competition title does not create pressure for students

The Ministry of Education and Training has many circulars related to year-end rewards and emulation titles.

According to Circular 22 of 2021 of the Ministry of Education and Training, the title of "excellent student" at secondary and high school levels is for students who have good results in training and studying throughout the school year (average score of 6.5 points or higher, of which at least 6 subjects have a score of 8.0 points or higher). As for "excellent students", they have at least 6 subjects assessed by comments combined with assessment by scores with an average subject score of 9.0 or higher.

For students in grades 8, 9, 11, and 12, Implementing the 2006 education program , student assessment and classification is based on Circular 58 of 2011 and Circular 26 of 2020 of the Ministry of Education and Training.

As a teacher with 37 years of teaching experience in secondary schools, I would like to explain why competitive titles are creating pressure for students.

Competition and achievements

Reality shows that homeroom teachers want their classes to have many good and excellent students so that the school board can praise them as advanced classes.

For subject teachers, being evaluated as good at teaching, having solid skills and being dedicated are the criteria for considering year-end competitions on subject quality.

The principal always wants the school to have many excellent students so that at the end of the year it can be included in the criteria for ranking as an advanced, excellent school at the district, city or provincial level.

Therefore, many teachers are the "creditors" of students' grades. When checking old lessons, students do not prepare for the lesson, instead of giving them bad grades, because they are worried about the quality at the end of the year, many teachers let them "owe" them when they re-check. Sometimes, because of their love for their students, teachers do not grade the tests seriously and strictly.

Before the periodic tests (midterm and final), also because of concern for the quality of the subject, teachers give outlines and review closely with the motto "review as it is", so most students get high scores.

Some teachers even said: "Letting students get below average scores is a crime, and then giving them a retest is very difficult. Let's not challenge students."

Or at the end of the year, there are cases where homeroom teachers, out of pity for their students, go to "ask for points" from subject teachers to achieve the title of excellent or good student because they are only 0.1 or 0.2... short of 8.0 points.

In addition, many schools also have a rule that if 2/3 of the students in the class have test results below average, the teacher will report to the principal to re-examine in order to get better scores.

The above actions are the causes contributing to the inflation of excellent students.

Exam title criteria create a lot of pressure for students.

Should remove the quota for excellent student title?

The inflation of excellent students also comes from the evaluation and classification regulations according to Circular 58.

Specifically, according to Article 13, Circular 58, the conditions for achieving the title of excellent student include: average score of all subjects from 8.0 or higher (in which the average score of 1 of the 3 subjects of math, literature, English is from 8.0 or higher); no subject has an average score below 6.5; subjects are evaluated by comments and are classified as passing.

Thus, students only need to diligently study the subjects: history, geography, civics to "compensate" for the difficult subjects of math, literature, English, so they can easily achieve an average score of 8.0 or higher.

Faced with that reality, circulars on student assessment applicable to grades 8, 9, 11 and 12 are no longer appropriate.

In addition, many students are dishonest in tests to get as high a score as possible to please their teachers and parents. Therefore, parents should not consider scores as a measure of their children's abilities.

Parents should not consider scores as a measure of their children's abilities.

With the desire for their children to achieve excellent academic results, many parents compete to let their children take extra classes with regular teachers in class. They hope that their children will be noticed by teachers in class to get care and high scores.

All of the above have created pressure on students because of the competition title. Therefore, schools should eliminate quotas, achievements, and subject quality.

In addition, it is important that teachers properly implement the motto "real teaching - real learning - real testing - real quality" so that the competition title does not create pressure for students.

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