Solutions for the 2025 exam

Finding solutions to improve the quality of the 2025 high school graduation exam is an urgent issue for the Central Highlands provinces today.

RANKED 5TH OUT OF 6 REGIONS IN EDUCATION INDEX

The Central Highlands is one of six socio-economic regions comprising five provinces: Lam Dong, Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak and Dak Nong. Its population accounts for 6.1% of the country’s population with 53 ethnic groups living together, including 52 ethnic minorities.

12th grade students in Kon Tum province during a career counseling session. One of the solutions to improve the quality of the 2025 high school graduation exam is to strengthen careereducation so that students can choose suitable subjects.

According to the report of the Ministry of Education and Training at the Central Highlands Education Conference in March 2023, in the period of 2011 - 2022, the school network system was consolidated and widely developed, meeting the diverse learning needs of the people. Basically, there are no more communes without preschool education, most communes have primary and secondary schools, and all districts have high schools. Many localities have built inter-commune secondary and high schools. Currently, the whole region has 3,984 preschool, general and continuing education facilities.

The rate of students attending school at the right age at all three levels of general education is equivalent to the national average. The rate of primary education institutions teaching 2 sessions/day is 94.1%; the rate of secondary education institutions teaching 2 sessions/day is 84%, nearly double that of 10 years ago.

According to the results of the 2022 population living standards survey by the General Statistics Office, the average monthly income per capita of the Central Highlands is quite low, reaching 3,282 million VND, ranking 5th out of 6 regions.

Regarding education, some educational indicators and the average score of the 5-year high school graduation exam (2020 - 2024) of the Central Highlands region are low, ranking 5th out of 6 regions, much lower than the national average.

HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION EXAM RESULTS REDUCED

From the data published by the Ministry of Education and Training on the average high school graduation exam scores for the period 2020 - 2024, we have arranged them from high to low scores, ranking them nationwide. The average exam results of the Central Highlands provinces are shown in the following table (in 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many Dak Lak students had to take the exam for the second time, so they were not ranked).

Literature and math are two compulsory subjects for the 2025 graduation exam. Therefore, knowing the quality of these two subjects in 2024 in each locality is very necessary. The results of the literature and math scores in 2024 show that Lam Dong has the best results, in which literature is 6.96 points, ranked 32nd and math is 6.52 points, ranked 21st. The remaining provinces have literature and math scores ranked 41st or higher.

C HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION QUALITY: DIFFICULTY ON DIFFICULTY

General education in general and high school education in the Central Highlands provinces are difficult on top of difficult. First of all, this is a mountainous region with many terrains divided by large rivers and streams. The proportion of ethnic minority students is quite large. According to a report by the Ministry of Education and Training, in the 2020-2021 school year, nearly 40% of ethnic minority students were students in the total number of students in the region (459,654 out of a total of 1,221,784 students). Most ethnic minority students had difficulties learning literature, math and foreign languages, some students could not keep up with the general learning progress and dropped out of school. In the 2023-2024 school year, in Buon Ma Thuot City (Dak Lak) alone, 113 secondary school students dropped out of school due to poor academic performance. Some provinces have conducted high school entrance exams for many years, leading to a lack of motivation for secondary school students to study.

Second, the implementation of the 2018 General Education Program in the Central Highlands faces many difficulties compared to other regions, due to the lack of facilities, teaching equipment, and teachers teaching new subjects, and the lack of good teachers with the ability to innovate. There are still many teachers whose capacity does not meet the requirements. Recently, through a review, the Department of Education of Tu Mo Rong District (Kon Tum) said that there are 17 teachers in the area who are weak in professional capacity; unable to teach the 2018 General Education Program. Mr. Vu Van Hung, Chairman of the People's Committee of Buon Ma Thuot City, frankly stated: "A number of managers and teachers are not dedicated to their profession, are not concerned, are not worried about how to improve the quality of education. If we do not innovate, the quality of education will remain average, and some schools will even decline".

Third, grade 12 students in the 2024-2025 school year are grade 8 students in the 2020-2021 school year and grade 9 students in the 2021-2022 school year. These are two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has seriously affected the whole country, forcing schools to close and switch to online teaching. Due to the difficult conditions of students in mountainous areas and lack of learning equipment, the quality of education for grade 8 students in the 2020-2021 school year and grade 9 students in the 2021-2022 school year has been greatly affected.

Fourth, the quality of high school entrance exams in some localities is still low. The 10th grade entrance exam for the 2024-2025 school year in Dak Lak has clearly shown that many students have test scores below 5, leading to low benchmark scores, with some schools requiring 3-6 points/3 subjects; an average of 1 point/subject can be admitted. Schools that conduct admissions also have low benchmark scores, but cannot recruit enough, so they have to lower the standards...

The implementation of the 2018 General Education Program in the Central Highlands faces many difficulties compared to other regions, due to a lack of facilities, teaching equipment and teachers to teach new subjects.

EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING SOLUTIONS, GRADUATION EXAM REVIEW

From the above mentioned difficulties, it is predicted that the 2025 high school exam results in the Central Highlands region will decrease further if there is no effective solution.

First of all, each high school, depending on its conditions, organizes professional activities to improve the quality of teaching, testing and evaluation according to the orientation and structure of the high school exam that the Ministry of Education and Training has announced, first of all, the two subjects of math and literature. Strengthen career guidance education so that students can choose suitable exam subjects.

Survey the registration wishes for 2 elective subjects in the graduation exam, divide the classes and review for the graduation exam reasonably. If the choice of subjects is too skewed (subjects chosen by many students, subjects not available), it is necessary to advise students to choose more reasonably. Professional groups build the school's exam question bank. Assign teachers to closely follow and tutor students in studying for each class.

The Department of Education and Training of the provinces in the region has a solution for schools to help schools. The Department can mobilize some good teachers with experience in exam preparation to support disadvantaged schools; take the lead in building a test bank according to the new structure of the Ministry of Education and Training for common use. The Department of Education and Training conducts the first and second semester exams for grade 12 in the whole province according to the new structure format to assess the quality of high school and practice the new exam organization model.

The State and authorities at all levels have solutions to invest in facilities, recruit enough teachers and improve the material life, and encourage the spirit of teachers and students to best prepare for the 2025 high school graduation exam.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/ket-qua-thi-tot-nghiep-thpt-cua-tay-nguyen-giam-giai-phap-cho-ky-thi-nam-2025-185241017175427152.htm