The Ministry of Education and Training has just announced the exam format structure and Illustrative questions for the exam format structure of the High School Graduation Exam from 2025.
Accordingly, the Ministry has developed the exam format structure of 17 subjects, including: Literature, Mathematics, Foreign Languages (English, Russian, French, German, Korean, Japanese, Chinese), Chemistry, Physics, Biology, History, Geography, Economic and Legal Education, Information Technology, Technology (Industrial Technology and Agricultural Technology).
The 2025 high school graduation exam will follow the 2018 general education program (photo by Trinh Phuc).
Illustrative exam formats with the new format structure have been tested in provinces/cities such as Hanoi, Hai Phong, Ninh Binh, Gia Lai, Thai Nguyen with nearly 5,000 students.
The results of the test format structure test were analyzed according to classical and modern testing theories as recommended by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) of the United States at a national training session for more than 3,500 officials, lecturers, and teachers from 63 Departments of Education and Training and 12 higher education institutions from December 11-17, 2023.
Based on the analysis of the test results, the Ministry of Education and Training invited experts (authors of the 2018 General Education Program, textbook authors, lecturers and experienced teachers) to work together to perfect the exam format structure and sample questions for publication.
The Ministry of Education and Training informs that the structure and format of the exam questions are oriented towards competency assessment, in accordance with the 2018 General Education Program and are demonstrated through illustrative questions and the accompanying competency table - thinking levels.
Learners will know how many parts the test consists of, what types of multiple choice questions there are, and what abilities are assessed in the sample test.
The questions in the illustration test try to be associated with meaningful contexts (contexts that have a certain effect/value on life, practice, and science).
The Ministry of Education and Training also informed that, according to the plan to organize the Exam and consider recognizing high school graduation from 2025 (Decision No. 4068/QD-BGDDT dated November 28, 2023 of the Ministry of Education and Training), Literature will be tested in the form of essays on paper, other subjects will be tested in the form of objective multiple choice tests on paper.
For multiple-choice exams, there are up to 3 types of multiple-choice test questions used, including multiple-choice questions (this format has been used for many years in Vietnam).
According to the exam format from 2025, Foreign Language subjects will only use this type of format. The remaining multiple choice subjects will have a part using this format.
Meanwhile, in the True/False multiple choice questions, each question has 4 answers, and candidates must answer True/False for each answer of the question.
This format requires candidates to have comprehensive knowledge and skills to achieve maximum score, limiting the use of "tricks" to choose answers from noisy options like in multiple choice test format. The probability of randomly getting the maximum score is 1/16, 4 times smaller than the current multiple choice test format.
Short answer multiple choice questions. This format is similar to the essay question format, and is assessed through the final result that the candidate must fill in on the answer sheet.
This format requires candidates to have solid capacity, knowledge and skills, and limits the use of "tricks" to choose answers from confusing options like in multiple choice tests.
Two new test formats, through practical testing, have been shown to be suitable for designing exams in the direction of assessing capacity, while improving the ability to classify candidates.
Exam time for each subject Literature is 120 minutes; Math is 90 minutes and other subjects are 50 minutes.
To ensure compliance with the exam requirements, the number of questions/questions for each exam as well as some related issues may be adjusted when developing the exam for the High School Graduation Exam from 2025.
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