Ministry of Education and Training announces sample exam questions: Candidates worry less

(Baonghean) - In order to facilitate the exam taking and review process of candidates, the Ministry of Education and Training has recently announced 13 sample exam questions and sample answers for 8 subjects in the 2015 National High School Exam. Most opinions say that the sample exam questions have met the criteria of differentiating candidates' abilities.

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Class 12A4 of Cua Lo 2 High School only has 3 students registered for admission to universities and colleges, but that does not mean that they are less interested in the sample test set that the Ministry of Education and Training has just released. Immediately after the Ministry announced the sample test, teachers in the school analyzed and solved the test for students. In English, this year's test model has a different structure from previous exams with two multiple choice and essay parts. Therefore, students also need comprehensive knowledge that requires writing, reading skills, word usage, phrases and grammar proficiency. According to Nguyen Thi Giang, class monitor, 1 of 3 students in the class who plan to take the university entrance exam: This year's test is quite difficult for the average student in my class and the possibility of students getting 5 points is not much. We only hope to get points in simple questions in the phonetics and communication functions sections. Only those who are confident can write the essay part. Ms. Bành Quỳnh Lan, an English teacher and homeroom teacher, shared: “Of the three compulsory subjects, English is the subject that students worry about the most, especially this year when there is an essay test instead of just multiple choice as before. In order to do well on the test, we have to organize for students to review all the knowledge, and after finishing each part, we give them exercises to practice, focusing on each sentence and each word. As for the essay part, we practice every day and also give homework. We will also grade carefully to point out the “gaps” for each student, helping students improve every day.”

Review time for students of Cua Lo 2 High School.

After carefully studying the Literature exam, teacher Nguyen Thi Dao, a Literature teacher for class 12A1 at Cua Lo 2 High School, admitted that this year's exam was long and highly classified, so it was not easy for most candidates. However, if students had a firm grasp of the knowledge in the textbooks, they could still "score" in some parts such as the reading comprehension section and question 1 of the writing section. In order to get good results for admission to universities, students must have a fairly broad general knowledge of both textbooks and life. Although it was not easy for all candidates, up to this point she was quite optimistic because compared to other subjects, Literature was the subject with the earliest innovation in the way questions were set. Therefore, not only from this year but starting from last year, the school has directed teachers to change their teaching and communication methods in the direction that instead of teachers teaching students to copy passively like before, they teach in a oriented way, forcing students to think.

At Huynh Thuc Khang High School (Vinh City), up to now, in addition to 2 students who have decided to study abroad after graduation, nearly 100% of the remaining students will register for universities and colleges. For that reason, after the Ministry of Education and Training announced the sample exam questions for the national high school exam, what students are most interested in is the difficult questions to classify students. Having won the first prize in the provincial excellent student exam in Math, Duong Tien Dat, a student in class 12A1, carefully studied the math questions and other questions in the combination of Math, Physics, and Chemistry questions. However, despite his good academic performance, he still admitted that compared to the university entrance exams of previous years, this year's exam was "much more difficult" and that achieving a perfect score was not easy. In particular, the plane analysis question with the knowledge of a circle being equal to a tangent was a strange question, rarely seen in previous types of questions, so many students were surprised. Mr. Cao Thanh Bao, Principal of the school, shared: Basically, the academic performance of students at Huynh Thuc Khang High School is quite good, so they are not too worried about their graduation results. However, in professional meetings and flag-raising ceremonies at the beginning of the week, we still ask teachers to remind students not to be subjective, to focus on teaching the knowledge in the textbooks carefully. When doing exercises, easy exercises should be done first to easily earn points. With four levels of easy, medium, difficult and extremely difficult, if they have a firm grasp of the program and do the exercises scientifically, diligent students can still achieve 7 points or more, easily being considered for admission to universities.

Sharing about this year's exam model, teacher Phan Ba ​​Tien, Principal of Thanh Chuong 3 High School, said: This year's exam has a wide range of questions, with continuity between levels of education, so it requires students to have general knowledge. This is also understandable because this year's exam is organized with two clear purposes, so the questions must differentiate students' abilities. The current way of setting questions will also bring the exam back to its true nature, no longer the phenomenon of students getting high scores in the graduation exam, but only getting 2-3 points in the university entrance exam."

Thus, the Ministry of Education and Training's early release of sample test questions has resolved the long-standing concerns of students and teachers about a test to get "2 in 1" results. From there, schools will have specific solutions to consolidate students' knowledge, orienting students on how to study and do tests effectively. Mr. Thai Huy Vinh, Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training, said: In order to limit the situation of rote learning, lopsided learning, and rampant exam preparation, in recent years the Ministry of Education and Training has not issued a test structure. However, students can still refer to the way the questions are set in the sample test questions. The Ministry's trend is to set test questions to enhance the assessment of students' abilities. The test content is in the high school program, mainly the 12th grade program. The test questions require two basic and advanced levels. Of which, the percentage of points for the basic level accounts for about 60%, and the advanced level is 40%. In addition, the general comments on the national high school exam are similar to the high school graduation exam and university and college entrance exam in 2014, so students can refer to these exams in previous years.

In addition, in recent years, in most subjects, especially social subjects such as Literature, History, and Geography, the exam questions are mainly open-ended, while natural subjects also have many questions applying the knowledge learned to life to overcome the situation of forcing students to memorize. Therefore, in addition to studying in books, students also need to regularly follow and update events, political and social issues of the country and the world to have comprehensive and comprehensive knowledge. Experience also shows that most students really like these questions because they are not too burdened in reviewing, and have the opportunity to develop their own opinions. This way of giving questions also receives the approval and appreciation of public opinion, parents and teachers. Hopefully, with good preparation and attitude, students need to be calm and confident to be ready for the upcoming "sprint" stage.

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