What do teachers say about innovation?

The Ministry of Education and Training has just announced sample questions for the 2025 graduation exam for students to refer to.

Classify good candidates

Master Tran Van Toan, former head of the math group at Marie Curie High School (District 3, Ho Chi Minh City), commented that the sample exam clearly demonstrated the innovative spirit of the 2018 General Education Program. That is, it aims to assess students' abilities according to each level of thinking.

The illustration math problem has 3 question formats:

• Form 1 (3 points): familiar 4-choice multiple choice test format with 12 questions at the level of quick recognition of concepts, definitions and formulas.
• Form 2 (4 points): The innovative form consists of 4 questions, each with 4 ideas and requires students to answer them true or false. Thus, this form requires students to answer 16 ideas and demonstrate a thorough understanding of the knowledge learned in the program.
• Form 3 (3 points): includes 6 questions applying general knowledge to solve and is also an innovative form given in essay form but only requires stating the final result in each question.

Master Toan commented that the innovation in illustrative math problems contributes to assessing students' abilities much more accurately than before, but does not assess the ability to present a math problem.

No more "burn out" thinking

Commenting on the 4-answer multiple-choice questions, teacher Le Minh Huy, Nguyen Hien High School (District 11, Ho Chi Minh City), said that this is a familiar type, only at the recognition level, requiring students to have a good grasp of the theory.

For part 2 (true or false questions), Mr. Huy assessed that this is a new type of question, very good because each question consists of many small ideas and students must really understand to be able to answer. This group of questions meets very well the goal of the 2018 General Education Program on developing thinking and reasoning skills in mathematics.

Mr. Huy commented that the short answers in part 3 are a group of essay questions. Most of the questions in this part are at the application level, especially incorporating practical problems. The appearance of these types of questions requires students to know how to solve problems, no longer thinking "in a vacuum" or using "tricks" to solve problems like before.

Illustrative questions use a variety of materials to test reading comprehension.

Master Nguyen Viet Dang Du, head of the history group at Le Quy Don High School (District 3, Ho Chi Minh City), commented that the structure of the history exam illustration using two multiple choice forms shows a change compared to the old exam format.

Specifically, in addition to the 4-answer multiple-choice format (in part 1), the illustrative test has an additional format of reading a passage and choosing true or false statements (part 2) - approaching the multiple-choice format in the current university capacity assessment exams. However, the scoring method is relatively complicated. Candidates who answer 1 question in part 2 will only be counted as 0.1 instead of 0.25 as in part 1.

Regarding the difficulty, Master Du said that there was an improvement compared to the old test with 12 application questions (accounting for 30% of the total number of questions). Therefore, the test has the ability to classify candidates, serving the admission criteria of universities.

According to Master Du, the content of the illustration questions closely follows the history curriculum. The questions use a variety of materials to test students' reading comprehension skills but are still within the student curriculum.

In general, Master Du assessed that the sample test is innovative and suitable for the criteria for testing and evaluating students' abilities, but is still behind the world because the multiple-choice test formats are limited.

11th grade student of Tay Thanh High School (Tan Phu District, Ho Chi Minh City)

Reduce random hit probability to get maximum score

In addition to using multiple choice questions (applied for many years in Vietnam), the chemistry illustration test also has true/false multiple choice questions, according to Master Pham Le Thanh, Nguyen Hien High School (District 11, Ho Chi Minh City).

With the true/false multiple choice test format, each question has 4 statements, candidates must apply all knowledge and skills to be able to choose the right/wrong answer for each statement of the question. This helps to classify the thinking and ability of many different groups of students, limiting the use of "tricks" or "guessing" to choose the answer like the multiple choice test format. The probability of randomly scoring the maximum score is 1/16, 4 times smaller than the current multiple choice test.

The sample test also incorporates multiple-choice short-answer questions that require candidates to have high levels of ability, knowledge and skills to write accurate answers, limiting the "cheating" of multiple-choice tests as before. In general, the combination of many standardized question formats helps to test, evaluate and classify the correct abilities of each student.

However, Mr. Thanh said: "Teachers still expect the Ministry of Education and Training to guide the development of exam content that is close to real life, not focusing on memorization and understanding of knowledge. And encourage higher-level thinking skills through the application of knowledge to solve specific problems in life because if knowledge is not applied in practice, that knowledge is just information."

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