English exam: There are many tricky questions with confusing answers

The exam has many "noisy" answers, making students confused.

Nguyen Thi Kieu Trang is a student at Le Viet Thuat High School and she took the C block exam (Literature - Geography - History). Because English is not an advantage, after finishing this exam, Kieu Trang admitted that she could only do about 50%: She found the reading about Dubai a bit difficult and she could not complete the entire test. The questions she did well were mostly easy questions, for average students.

Since the Foreign Language exam only lasted 60 minutes, the candidates finished the exam at 3:35 p.m. The hot weather and Lao wind made many candidates feel tired. Photo: Ho Phuong

Student Phan Thi Bao Ngoc - English major student - Vinh University also affirmed: The test differentiates well, the 2 reading passages are not too difficult. The difficult questions are mainly due to some new vocabulary that students do not know and if they do not have a rich vocabulary, it will be difficult to answer.

In addition, there are about 10 tricky questions with many "noisy" answers that confuse students. Each question has 4 answers, but candidates can only easily eliminate 2 answers, the remaining 2 answers have similar content, forcing candidates to think quite a lot.

Candidates at Vinh University High School for the Gifted discuss the exam questions. Photo: Ho Phuong

After an hour of taking the English Foreign Language exam, many candidates at Dang Thuc Hua High School walked out of the exam room in a quite relaxed mood.

Nguyen Hoang Hai Yen - a 12D student at Dang Thai Mai High School shared: I found the Foreign Language exam quite interesting, it was able to classify students. With this exam, I got more than 70% and hope to have enough points to be admitted to Vinh University or Da Nang University of Foreign Languages.

Some candidates were happy because they did well on the test. Photo: Ho Phuong

When asked how they felt about this year's Foreign Language exam, many candidates in Nghia Dan said the exam was relatively easy.

Candidate Nguyen Thi Hang Nga - Co Do High School said: The exam tests students' knowledge of phonetics, vocabulary, grammar, and reading and writing skills. The exam has a high level of classification. There are some reading comprehension questions that are difficult to determine the answer, many students in my class can hardly do these questions.

Exam site of Dang Thuc Hua High School - Thanh Chuong. Photo: Huy Thu

At Quy Hop 3 High School, many candidates walked out of the exam room with sad faces. Candidate Lo Van Hieu said: "The English test was long, I could only do the first 10-20 questions, and I randomly circled the answers for the next 30 questions." However, this candidate also said that he only took the test to graduate, so he only needed 4 points to achieve his goal.

Candidates at the exam site of May 1 High School. Photo: Minh Thai

Exam scores of Quynh Luu 3 High School. Photo: Viet Hung

At the exam site of Quynh Luu 3 High School, candidate Nguyen Thi Huong - Quynh Luu 3 High School said: This is a graduation exam so the test is not too difficult. I am not good at Foreign Languages ​​but I can still do about 35 questions. The test follows the textbook program, candidates only need to grasp the structure and learn a lot of vocabulary to be able to answer many questions in the test.

At this test site, there was only one candidate who registered for Japanese today, but this candidate withdrew from the test. To ensure the exam was conducted in accordance with the law, the Examination Council still fully met the requirements from printing, securing the test papers to arranging the exam room.

There will be many 10s in Foreign Language

Commenting on this year's exam, teacher Nguyen Thi Binh - English teacher - Ha Huy Tap High School said: This year's exam is quite close to the sample exam structure of the Ministry of Education and Training, the level of the exam is "moderate", suitable for students. In particular, students with average academic ability can still get 5 or 6 points.

This year's exam was assessed by many candidates and teachers as having high differentiation. Photo: Ho Phuong

In the higher application section, there are some difficult questions that require students to have a lot of contact, friction and practice.

After finishing the Foreign Language exam, teacher Nguyen Thanh My - Teacher at Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted said: I received many calls from students and they all said they did well, no wrong answers were found. I myself am really satisfied with their work.

Candidates at the exam site of Quy Hop 3 High School. Photo: Phan Giang

Through analyzing test code 417, teacher Thanh My also said: This year's test is easier than last year's, the readings are rich with many different topics and not too difficult.

Especially with this question, Ms. Thanh My also commented that there were quite a lot of candidates with high scores: This year's exam is not an advantage for students of specialized schools because students of other groups can also do well and they do not even need to review much. Last year, the whole Nghe An province only had 2 scores of 10 in English (all of them were students of specialized schools). But this year with this question, I hope that there will be more scores of 10 and not only students of specialized schools can achieve it.

After finishing the Foreign Language exam, about 10,000 candidates in Nghe An also completed the National High School Exam. Photo: Ho Phuong

According to the Department of Education and Training, 15 candidates dropped out of the Foreign Language exam. No candidates or invigilators violated exam regulations. After finishing the Foreign Language exam, more than 10,000 candidates in Nghe An have also completed the National High School Exam. Tomorrow (June 27), candidates will take the final exam, the Social Science subject group.