TPO - This year's 10th grade entrance exam is the first year that the Literature exam does not use materials from textbooks. Students are worried that approaching a new text in a short period of time but requiring correct understanding, good writing and creativity is a challenge.
TPO - This year's 10th grade entrance exam is the first year that the Literature exam does not use materials from textbooks. Students are worried that approaching a new text in a short period of time but requiring correct understanding, good writing and creativity is a challenge.
Up to now, the Literature exam has often used materials that students have learned in textbooks. For example, in 2024, the 10th grade Literature entrance exam of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training gave an excerpt from the work "Comrade" in the 9th grade Literature textbook, requiring candidates to answer reading comprehension questions and write a paragraph (accounting for 6.5 points).
From this year, 9th grade students will take the entrance exam to 10th grade according to the 2018 General Education Program. Accordingly, the Literature exam will not use materials from textbooks.
In August 2024, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training announced an illustration test with a structure of 2 parts: reading comprehension (4 points); writing (6 points). The illustration test uses a poem outside the textbook as material for both reading comprehension and writing.
Many students are worried and anxious. Even though teachers teach them reading comprehension and test-taking skills for a new work or excerpt, when they enter the exam room, the limited time to do the test will be a challenge.
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This year's 10th grade entrance exam is the first year that the Literature exam does not use materials from textbooks. |
Ms. Hoang Tue Minh, Head of the Literature Department, Giang Vo Secondary School, Ba Dinh District (Hanoi), said that considering the entrance exam for 9th graders to 10th grade as an important exam, a turning point for each student, the school has a review plan and strategy from the beginning of the school year to achieve the goal.
At this time, final year students are given extra study hours for exam subjects, and separate classes are organized for students in need. Teachers will review each student's knowledge to ensure they have a solid grasp of the content and provide guidance on test-taking skills.
In class, at this time students have not completed the main curriculum so teachers are teaching in a rolling manner, learning to grasp knowledge as they go.
For example, after finishing the story genre, the teacher will summarize all the knowledge related to the story from grade 6 to grade 9, emphasizing the characteristics and skills.
If in the previous program, students only needed to study the content of the works in the textbooks to be confident in taking the exam, in the new program, the materials in the books are no longer so important. The entrance exam for grade 10 will certainly use materials other than textbooks, so in the teaching process, teachers are also encouraged to find materials for students to familiarize themselves with.
What is necessary over the years is that teachers guide students in reading comprehension skills, teaching according to the types of lessons and characteristics of the genre. From the material being excerpts from poems and stories, students must be able to read and understand correctly the content and ideas of the work before connecting to the writing part.
Students lack literary "capital"
Ms. Tue Minh said that in the process of teaching according to the 2018 General Education Program, what teachers noticed as a positive point was that the results of the tests and assessments were not as stereotypical as before. The products were like "a garden of hundreds of flowers in bloom", students demonstrated clear and outstanding literary ability. However, there were also many students who struggled and were confused when encountering new materials.
Although it is positive, teaching with the new method, students are not allowed to delve deeply and thoroughly into any literary work, which is considered a minus point. Students easily forget and easily “get lost” because they misunderstand the content. During the grading process, there are still students who write naively, express their personality and personal opinions too much in their writing, or do not know how to divide their time properly, so they cannot finish their writing in time.
"It seems that today's students are lazy to read and have little literary "capital", so when asked to "use literary experience" to write an essay, few students can express it in an interesting and attractive way. Therefore, although the program does not require students to memorize poetry, at school teachers still encourage students to read poetry and good literary works to have materials to use to enrich their writing", Ms. Hoang Tue Minh.
To do the best Literature test according to the new program, teachers have closely followed the program framework and required standards to form test-taking skills for students.
At that time, students can do any exercise with any material. Each type of exercise will have a certain “framework”. Students must learn how to generalize the content, analyze, dissect the content, draw lessons…
“From the method taught in class, what is necessary now is that students need to practice writing a lot, then re-read the lesson and adjust and expand it,” said Ms. Minh.
For general students, in addition to teaching reading comprehension skills, teachers also guide how to write essays with requirements to ensure correct content and knowledge. Good and excellent students have higher requirements for literary appreciation and good writing, and can get extra points.
The teacher also said that with a 120-minute test, students must do reading comprehension and writing. If the questions are given in a language other than the textbook and are quite long and difficult, it will be a big challenge for students.
Because even for teachers, when encountering new material, they have to read it over and over again to understand it, and read more related materials to understand it deeply and expand it. Therefore, students have poor reading comprehension, easily misunderstand, write wrongly and lose points. Although currently, the answer is open, accepting all arguments of students, as long as they do not violate the law, ethics, or distort.
The Hanoi Department of Education and Training has said that the Literature exam will not be longer than 2 pages, but according to teachers of this subject, with limited time, students must practice many reading skills, answer questions, write paragraphs and essays, so the exam must not be too long, the language must be familiar, the issues must be contemporary and age-appropriate.
For students, teachers advise that to prepare well for this year's exam, students need to increase their search for reading materials outside of books, expand their vocabulary and practice the questions diligently. Only by practicing writing a lot will students get used to the types of questions as well as have the skills to process text.
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