Nguyen Duc Canh High School (Thai Binh) has just organized a mid-term exam for students for the 2nd semester of the 2024-2025 school year. The Literature exam for grade 12 mentioned Hoa Minzy's MV Bac Bling, which made many students excited.

The test requires students to do two parts, reading comprehension and writing, in 90 minutes.

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The Literature exam of Nguyen Duc Canh High School caused a "fever" on the internet.

The article reads: "In recent days, the MV 'Bac Bling' by singer Hoa Minzy has caused a fever on social networking platforms. The MV has become a hot topic after nearly a week of release, and is also the video that has created the best effect in the Vietnamese music industry since the beginning of the year. Not only attracting the interest of Bac Ninh people, on social networks, many audiences in other regions said they suddenly fell in love with the land and people of Kinh Bac and the three regions of the North, Central and South when watching the project." (According to Vnexpress, Saturday, March 8, 2025).

From the perspective of a young person and your own experiences, please write an essay (about 600 words) on the topic: "Loving the Fatherland from simple things".

The exam was shared at a dizzying speed on social networks, many students were very excited. A representative of Nguyen Duc Canh High School also confirmed that this was the school's second mid-term exam.

Pham Nguyen Ngoc - a 12th grade student in Thai Binh said that he has watched the MV Bac Bling many times and found it really attractive. "This MV praises and promotes the culture and famous places of Bac Ninh with an attractive melody that makes anyone who watches it love the land and people here. From loving Bac Ninh, loving the homeland to loving the Fatherland is also a familiar topic that does not puzzle students. I really like such open exam questions," Ngoc said.

Ms. Nguyen Thu Ha, a Literature teacher in Hanoi, commented that recently many educational institutions have tended to include hot trending issues on social networks in exams, especially Literature exams, with the aim of helping students not only develop their literary abilities but also increase their social understanding of "hot" issues.

“When catching the right ‘hot trend’ in the exam, most students will be interested and comfortable expressing their thoughts and opinions on the issue mentioned. However, the issues included in the exam must be selected to suit the positive educational goals. I highly appreciate the above exam questions because to have such an exam, the person who creates the exam questions must be good at their profession and have a good understanding of the issues happening in life, carefully incorporating appropriate language, avoiding overuse,” Ms. Ha expressed.

Sharing the same opinion, Ms. Pham Thanh Nga, a teacher at Luong The Vinh Secondary and High School (Hanoi) shared: "Including this trend in the exam is very good, it is both timely and meaningful, and especially it arouses pride in traditional cultural values ​​and love for the homeland in students."

According to teacher Nguyen Thi Linh (Thai Binh High School for the Gifted), this test is good and suitable for high school students, especially those at the age that need to foster the will to rise up, overcome difficulties (through the reading comprehension section) and love for the homeland (through the writing section).

"In the exam, the writing question aroused students' interest by leading from the popular music video of Hoa Minzy. However, the discussion topic here is quite familiar in the students' review program. It can be said that it creates interest but is not strange to the students," Ms. Linh expressed.

According to Ms. Linh, putting trends into exam questions is a way to inspire students, making them more interested in contemporary social life; from book knowledge can be compared to reality more easily.

“However, with sensitive phenomena, more consideration and caution is needed in including them in the exam,” said Ms. Linh.