The 2019 National High School Exam will no longer be a puzzle.

Mr. Mai Van Trinh said: The exam questions of the 2019 national high school exam are built according to a basic threshold to achieve the goal of graduation, and at the same time will have appropriate differentiation for university and college admission.

The differentiation of the exam is mainly for grade 12. Candidates can rest assured that the newly announced reference exam has reference value and is a very good orientation for teaching and learning of teachers and students in schools.

-Does the question ratio follow the structure of 60% for graduation and 40% for university admission, sir?

-In fact, the Ministry of Education and Training has never specified this ratio. Looking at the reference questions, specialized teachers will be able to analyze the specific level.

-Next year, will the Ministry of Education and Training instruct the exam council not to ask questions that are too difficult or tricky like last year?

-VThe preparation of the exam questions from last year was directed and thoroughly implemented by the minister from beginning to end. The preparation of the reference exam questions is a very important step in preparing for the official exam questions.

- Every year, we see the phenomenon that this year's exam is easy, next year it will be difficult. From 2019, what is the guiding viewpoint of the Ministry of Education and Training?

- The Ministry's guiding viewpoint has been clearly expressed by Deputy Minister Nguyen Huu Do in the recent guiding document. Today, it is expressed in the reference topic announced by the Ministry.

- Will there be questions that fall entirely on 11th grade knowledge, sir?

-I cannot answer this question specifically, I can only say it in general. The design of the educational program is interconnected and inherited. We cannot say that the next class does not use the knowledge of the previous class at all. Therefore, no scientist can confirm that this question is purely grade 12 knowledge. The main spirit of the reference question is that the content is mainly in grade 12.

-The exam's dual objectives seemed very forced. How does this year's exam address this issue?

- This issue is not new, it even existed before we conducted the first national high school exam. The Ministry of Education and Training has been preparing for a long time. Along with that, Resolutions 29 and 44 require innovation in high school graduation exams and university and college admissions in the direction of using results to consider graduation recognition and as a basis for universities to use in admissions. That means, using the results of the national high school exam is in the spirit of autonomy of the schools.

Recently, schools have followed this direction. I agree with the view that designing exams to meet 2 goals is more difficult than designing exams to meet each goal separately. But in reality, we can do it and basically meet the requirements.

-BThe monitoring report of the National Assembly's Committee on Culture, Education, Youth, Adolescents and Children affirmed that the test questions were said to be standardized but in reality did not meet this requirement. How can this be resolved?

- You can see, America has been making tests for a century. We are just in the first years. We are following the same process. The question bank is getting richer and more standardized. What I can promise is that we will achieve standardized question banks faster than other countries.

The Ministry is implementing a series of solutions. In 2019, in addition to using a team of experts as in previous years, we have a channel to mobilize more widely the team of teachers across the country, as well as experts to build the question bank through connected schools and through other information network systems.