The 10th grade literature exam in Gia Lai quoted incorrectly: Highest score 9.25 points

On June 18, the Department of Education and Training of Gia Lai province announced that it had just announced the exam scores for specialized subjects to enter Hung Vuong High School for the Gifted. Regarding the literature exam that caused a stir in public opinion due to errors in citations compared to the original, there was a candidate who scored 9.25 points.

According to Mr. Nguyen Van Long, Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training of Gia Lai province, in general, the quality of the exams meets the conditions for classifying candidates for admission to specialized literature classes. Compared to other specialized subjects, specialized literature has the highest total minimum score for admission.

Candidates taking the 10th grade entrance exam at Hung Vuong High School for the Gifted (Photo: Chi Anh).

Candidates who registered for the exam achieved scores ranging from 5 to 8 points. The highest score in the specialized literature exam, 9.25 points, belonged to Bui Thi Khanh Huyen, a student at Quang Trung Secondary School in Duc Co District. This candidate won third prize in the provincial literature exam for excellent students.

The second highest score of 9 points belonged to contestant Luu Trinh Gia Han, a student at Tran Phu Secondary School, Pleiku City. This contestant had previously won a consolation prize in the literature competition for excellent students.

The 10th grade entrance exam for Hung Vuong High School for the Gifted, Pleiku City (Gia Lai) has 1,325 candidates registered across the province, an increase of 125 candidates compared to the 2023-2024 school year.

Of these, English is the subject with the largest number of registered candidates with 410 students, followed by Literature with 334 students. After announcing the exam scores, the exam board will receive the candidates' applications for review of the exams within 1 week.

As Dan Tri reported, in the 10th grade entrance exam of Hung Vuong High School for the Gifted, Pleiku City (Gia Lai), there was an error in question 2 (5 points) of part II - the writing section, the exam quoted an excerpt from the speech "Message on Beauty and Freedom" by writer Nguyen Quang Thieu, Chairman of the Vietnam Writers Association, at the East Asian Poetry Conference in the Age of Globalization in Manhea, Korea.

"Poetry does not produce rice or white gold, but poetry creates dreams for the sower. Only sacred and splendid dreams can help people overcome the darkness of desire and sin, reach out to their fellow human beings to share and offer the beauty of the desire to live to all people."

From this excerpt, the test requires candidates to understand the statement in the excerpt and clarify the above statement through some poetic works in the Grade 9 Literature program.

After the exam, parents and students were in an uproar when it was reported that the original quote was incorrect. In fact, the correct quote was "Poetry does not produce golden rice, white rice", not "rice, white gold".

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/giao-duc/de-mon-van-thi-lop-10-chuyen-o-gia-lai-trich-dan-sai-cao-nhat-925-diem-20240618105611219.htm