The Confidence in Grade 10 Festival in Hanoi took place from 7am on Sunday, February 23 at Chu Van An High School for the Gifted (Tay Ho District, Hanoi).
Candidates and parents view information about the 10th grade entrance exam in Hanoi for the 2024-2025 school year - Photo: NAM TRAN
After that, two Confidence in Grade 10 festivals for students and parents in Ho Chi Minh City will take place at the end of March 2025.
Orientation for review and preparation for the exam
At the 10th Grade Confidence Day, teachers in the advisory board will share with students about review orientation and notes on how to prepare for the exam.
Mr. Luu Van Thong, principal of Dich Vong Secondary School (Cau Giay District, Hanoi), a member of the advisory board, shared that the school had conducted surveys with students in advance to understand their thoughts and desires for answers in order to provide advice.
Accompanying senior students is one of the contents that the school has included in its mission since the beginning of the school year, including contents similar to the goal of the 10th Grade Confidence Festival initiated by Tuoi Tre newspaper.
Ms. Tran Thi Hai Yen, principal of Tran Phu High School (Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi), shared when the school registered to participate in the festival: This is a good opportunity for schools to introduce the learning environment at the high school level to 9th grade students.
According to Ms. Yen, in previous years, the school often arranged three groups of subjects for students to choose from: the natural science group, the social science group, and the general group with all the subjects for students who did not have a clear orientation from grade 10. Students who do not know which direction to follow are there every year because parents and students at the secondary level do not have much information or are not really interested.
For these students, after a semester or a year when there is a clear direction, the school will create conditions for students to change. However, if from the beginning, parents and students have full information to determine a clearer choice, it will be less difficult to compensate for knowledge to ensure the conditions when changing.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhiep, principal of Chu Van An High School for the Gifted - the host of the festival, said: Every year, the school has to organize a meeting for parents of 10th grade students to discuss in detail information related to the learning environment, regulations related to the curriculum, especially orientation for choosing subjects...
But this is only done when students have passed the entrance exam. Therefore, organizing a festival before students register for grade 10 is more meaningful, so that parents and children have information before choosing a school and are also better prepared when entering the new level of education.
Many worries and questions
Information about the Confidence Day for 10th Grade Students organized for the first time in Hanoi by Tuoi Tre newspaper in collaboration with the Hanoi Department of Education and Training has attracted the attention of many parents and 9th grade students.
2025 is the year that the first batch of 9th graders studying the 2018 General Education Program will take the transition exam. The exam methods and questions will change, and even the basis for predicting and choosing to register for 10th grade will be disrupted.
This makes parents and students feel anxious. "My biggest concern is how the entrance exam for grade 10 will be organized? What will be the third subject besides literature and math? The clearer the information is, the more confident students will be in their review" - said Ms. H., a parent with a child studying in grade 9 at Chu Van An Secondary School (Hanoi).
Ms. Th., a parent in Ha Dong, shared: "This year's 9th grade students started studying the new program (2018 General Education Program) during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a long period of online learning.
At present, due to the application of new regulations on extra teaching and learning, the school no longer organizes extra teaching in the school. Parents and children are worried. We want to come to the fair to get advice on how to review for the exam in the current context. Of course, we hope to know sooner information related to the method of admission to grade 10."
Ms. Th. also said that in previous years, because the 10th grade entrance exam in Hanoi was stable, many data such as quotas, competition rates, and standard scores for 10th grade in recent years were made public to help parents and children refer to and choose to register for admission to schools that are suitable for their academic ability. But this year, the exam is new, the exam is new, and the admission regulations may also be new, so it feels like "swimming" without direction.
According to Tuoi Tre, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training is urgently completing the draft plan for enrollment in the first grade, including grade 10, for the 2025-2026 school year. Accordingly, enrollment in public grade 10 will apply the entrance exam method with three subjects: literature, math and a third subject chosen from the remaining subjects at the secondary school level.
Lots of advice for students
The Confidence in Grade 10 Festival in Hanoi will have a main consultation session with the participation and consultation of teachers from the Department of Secondary Education (Ministry of Education and Training), the Department of Secondary Education, the Department of Examination and Education Quality Assessment (Hanoi Department of Education and Training), and teachers who are principals of high schools and middle schools.
In addition, there will be a psychological counseling area organized by a psychologist from Hanoi National University. The festival will also have the participation of a number of high schools in Hanoi...
Journalist NGUYEN KHAC CUONG (deputy editor-in-chief of Tuoi Tre newspaper):
Help students prepare mentally for the new level of education
The Confidence in Grade 10 Festival is an opportunity for parents and grade 9 students to listen to answers and receive reliable and accurate information related to the exam review period, transfer exams and especially preparing mentally to enter a new level of education.
This activity was initiated by Tuoi Tre newspaper in 2024 in Ho Chi Minh City. This year, for the first time held in Hanoi, the festival was supported and coordinated by the Hanoi Department of Education and Training.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/giai-dap-thong-tin-ve-tuyen-sinh-lop-10-20250221111500258.htm
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