English is the third subject in the 10th grade entrance exam in Ho Chi Minh City.

TPO - Along with Math and Literature, Foreign Language is a subject chosen in the 10th grade entrance exam in Ho Chi Minh City in 2025.

Immediately after the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) issued a Circular on the Regulations on Secondary School and High School Admissions, the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City had official information about the 10th grade entrance exam.

Mr. Nguyen Bao Quoc, Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City confirmed that the 10th grade entrance exam in Ho Chi Minh City will take place with 3 subjects: Math, Literature and Foreign Language.

Of which, Literature and Math have 120 minutes each, Foreign Language has 90 minutes. The 10th grade entrance exam is expected to take place in early June 2025.

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Candidates take the 10th grade entrance exam for the 2024-2025 school year in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Duy Anh

According to the 10th grade admission regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training, localities can choose to take an entrance exam, consider admission to 10th grade or combine them. For the entrance exam, the exam includes Math, Literature and a third subject (or a combined exam). This subject is selected by the Department of Education and Training from subjects assessed by scores, including: Foreign Language 1, Civic Education, Natural Sciences, History and Geography, Technology, and Information Technology.

The Ministry requires localities not to select a subject for more than three consecutive years. The announcement of the third subject will be after the end of the first semester but no later than March 31 every year.

According to the Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, the 10th grade entrance exam for the 2025-2026 school year is the first entrance exam according to the 2018 General Education Program, so the exam structure will be different from last year.

The specific exam structure is as follows:

Structure of the 10th grade entrance exam for Literature

Part 1 (5 points): Reading and writing a paragraph

Question 1 (3 points): Reading comprehension

Question 2 (2 points): Write a paragraph

Part 2 (5 points) Read and understand argumentative or informational texts and write social argumentative essays.

Question 1 (1 point): Reading comprehension

Question 2 (4 points) Write a social argumentative essay

Reading and writing requirements in the 2018 general education program - Literature subject at secondary school level, mainly grades 8 and 9.

Structure of the 10th grade math entrance exam

The exam structure includes 7 lessons:

- Exercise 1 (1.5 points) has the format "Given the function y = ax2". Candidates draw the graph (P) of the above function and find the points belonging to (P) that satisfy the given conditions.

- Exercise 2 (1 point) has the format "Given the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0". Candidates find the conditions for the equation to have solutions; apply Viete's formula, calculate the value of the expression related to the solutions.

- Lesson 3 (1.5 points) is a practical math problem related to probability and statistics.

- Exercise 4 (1 point) requires candidates to write an expression A representing a certain quantity x in a real-life problem, and at the same time find the value of x so that A satisfies a certain condition.

- Lesson 5 (1 point) is a practical math problem related to geometry such as perimeter, area of triangle, quadrilateral, arc length, circumference of circle, area of circle, circular sector, segment, ring... Lateral area, total area, volume of solids in reality...

- Lesson 6 (1 point) is a practical math problem related to equations, inequalities, and systems of first-degree equations with two variables.

- Lesson 7 (3 points) is a plane geometry problem consisting of 3 questions: Prove that 4 points lie on a circle, the elements are parallel, perpendicular, and equal; Prove that the formula, the elements are equal, collinear, and concurrent; Calculate the length, perimeter, area, angle measure...

Of which, geometry and measurement account for 45%, numbers and algebra 40%, statistics and probability 15% of the exam.

Structure of the 10th grade English entrance exam

The exam structure includes:

- Part 1 (1.0 point) includes 4 questions, testing phonetic knowledge.

- Part 2 (3.0 points) from question 5 to question 16, testing vocabulary, grammar, communication

- Part 3 (3.0 points) from question 17 to question 28 includes reading and filling in the blanks; reading comprehension and answering questions.

- Part 4 (4.0 points) from questions 29 to 40 includes writing the correct form of the word; writing appropriate phrases according to the given information; writing sentences.

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