Students 'turn around' to focus on high school graduation exam

TP - The information that the Ministry of Education and Training plans to tighten early admission quotas for universities has increased pressure on students. Perhaps, many students have "turned around" to seriously invest in the High School Graduation Exam.

TP - The information that the Ministry of Education and Training plans to tighten early admission quotas for universities has increased pressure on students. Perhaps, many students have "turned around" to seriously invest in the High School Graduation Exam.

Phan Thi Hien Anh, a 12D6 student at Viet Duc High School (Hanoi), said she aims to be admitted to the National Economics University. Since the beginning of the school year, Hien Anh has been practicing for the IELTS exam and reviewing for the aptitude test as a condition for early admission.

However, when I learned that the Ministry of Education and Training plans to tighten early admission quotas for universities, I was somewhat worried because the chance of being admitted early would be less.

“If before I only focused on the conditions to be able to pass the exam early, now I will have to divide my efforts into many options, including the High School Graduation Exam next year,” Hien Anh said.

According to Tran Duc Kien, a student of class 12A1, Viet Duc High School, tightening the early admission quota will have a significant impact on the orientation of grade 12 students this year. That is, they will have to invest and focus more on the high school graduation exam.

Kien personally chose the combination of Math, Physics, and Chemistry to pursue his goal of entering Hanoi University of Science and Technology, so he prepared for the university's thinking assessment exam and practiced for the IELTS certificate in parallel with reviewing for the high school graduation exam.

Hope to have enrollment plan soon

12th grade students of Viet Duc High School (Hanoi) during class on the morning of November 28. Photo: Ha Linh

Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Hue, a Math teacher at Dong Anh High School (Hanoi), said that the new graduation exam plan for 2025 will have multiple-choice subjects with new question formats and increased difficulty in differentiation questions.

For example, in the Math exam, the sample exam has two more types of true-false and fill-in-the-blank questions, making it impossible for students to study vaguely and guess randomly and still get high scores. The true-false question format gives 4 possible answers. If a candidate answers 1 correct answer, they will only get 0.1 point, 2 correct answers will get 0.25 points, 3 correct answers will get 0.5 points, and 4 correct answers will get 1 point.

Thus, with a test of 4 questions of this type, students only need to make one mistake in all the questions to lose 2 points. Or the type of fill-in-the-blank question that requires students to calculate on the draft and then fill in the result also has the risk that if the method is correct but the result is wrong, students will "lose everything".

Previously, when taking an essay test, students would solve a problem with all the correct steps and get an incorrect result and still get a reasonable score.

“For those reasons, since the beginning of the school year, many 12th graders do not want to take the “last gamble” of the high school graduation exam, but want to focus on early admission methods to feel more confident. However, with the plan to tighten the early admission quota to no more than 20%, students are forced to “turn around” and focus on exam preparation,” Ms. Hue shared.

Ms. Nguyen Boi Quynh, Principal of Viet Duc High School (Hanoi) said that the draft Circular amending and supplementing a number of articles of the University Admissions Regulations, which includes regulations to tighten early admission quotas of universities, has somewhat affected students' psychology.

The school has encouraged students that no matter what the plan is, the most important thing is that they still have to study to have a solid knowledge foundation to prepare for the graduation exam and at the same time prepare other conditions for admission when the university announces the plan.

Ms. Quynh hopes that with only one semester left until the end of the school year, universities will soon announce their 2025 enrollment plans so that schools and students can prepare and avoid the situation of "too late to jump".

Ha Linh

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