Teachers in Nghe An change to approach exam questions according to the new general education program

Nghe An Newspaper has recorded some opinions of teachers on preparation work to help students get ready for the upcoming exams.New general education program.

Teacher Le Thi Hien - Literature teacher for grade 9 - Le Xuan Dao Secondary School (Hung Nguyen):

It will be difficult for students to receive new texts.

Although the Department of Education and Training has not announced the structure of the 10th grade entrance exam, we have consulted several other provinces and cities and found many differences, especially in the literary essay question.

Accordingly, the exam will be a text outside the textbook program. This has its own advantages, because students are completely unprepared and their abilities are not properly assessed.

But the difficulty is in accessing the text. For a long time, even in the old program, there were texts that we taught over and over again but students were still confused when doing the exercises, let alone a completely new text. On the teachers' side, not having the text in the textbook sometimes makes teachers subjective and superficial when analyzing and evaluating the work.

From this fact, to prepare forEntrance exam for grade 10In 2025, it is certain that many new texts must be found so that students have the opportunity to access many data sources. In addition, instead of focusing only on texts, basic knowledge must be taught so that students can understand and grasp the nature of the problems.

In addition, we must train students' skills. This is a basic factor for students to apply well in their work, regardless of the text. We determine that students must use their own knowledge and cannot learn by heart or memorize like before.

Teacher Le Thi Minh Nguyet - English teacher - Nghi Kieu Secondary School (Nghi Loc):

Enhance reading comprehension skills for students

English is not an advantage for students in rural areas, so to prepare for the 10th grade entrance exam, I determined that this is a very difficult task. Currently, the amount of materials for students to review for the new exam is not much, so we are trying to research, learn materials and find online resources to review for the exam for them.

In Nghe An, for many years now, the entrance exam for grade 10 has been considered difficult and the English test scores are often lower than other subjects. With this change, I think the new exam will be more difficult for students in our school and we have to change the way we teach, creating more contexts for students to develop their skills.

In addition, we also hope that the Department of Education and Training will soon announce the sample exam structure so that we can teach and test closely to the program. As a teacher, I hope the exam is not too difficult so that students and teachers can see their achievements, which is a motivation to try.

Teacher Nguyen Thi Huong - homeroom teacher of class 9A - Nghi Kim Secondary School (Vinh city):

Teaching close to the curriculum and exam structure

This school year is the final year of high school, so our teachers and students are very worried, especially with the characteristics of a locality like Vinh city. As teachers, we hope that the Department of Education and Training will soon have an exam structure so that we can base on that to have a teaching plan that is close to the program.

Personally, I think the 2018 general education program has many new features in teaching methods, learning methods and exam questions. Therefore, to prepare students for exams, we must help students grasp the requirements of each lesson and help them master the basic skills to do the test. Teachers must also spend a lot of time researching and learning to understand the program and have appropriate teaching methods.

Teacher Cao Thi Nguyet - Head of Literature - Phan Dang Luu High School (Yen Thanh):

Innovate teaching and testing methods to equip students with many skills

In the program of innovation of subjects, Literature is the subject with great innovation in test questions, curriculum and approach. Before this innovation, teachers and students must change their approach, for example, in comparing the old program and the new program. In the old program, the focus was on exploiting students' knowledge.General Education Program 2018competency-based

This also affects the structure of the exam. If the old program, students have a fairly solid foundation in traditional works in textbooks and if they work hard, they will have a fairly safe score. But with the new program, when new works are released, in addition to the necessary skills, teachers must teach students how to approach a new work, how to increase the applicability for students to handle the work... Not to mention, in addition to the graduation exam, there are also separate exams, the exam questions also assess students' language ability, evaluate thinking and many other open contents.

In the above context, teachers must help students improve their reading skills, enhance their proactive and positive skills, not just their ability to memorize knowledge. Currently, in each lesson, we will expand the range of works outside of textbooks, increase the ability to quickly handle questions... so that students can practice their exam mentality, practice their self-study ability, and harmoniously practice listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills...

Teacher Pham Thi Quynh Trang - Math teacher for grade 12 - Nghi Loc 2 High School (Nghi Loc):

Differentiate to teach the right audience

I have carefully studied the sample questions of the Ministry of Education and Training and certainly in this school year we will change the teaching method by developing students' abilities. The new questions have a completely different structure from the old questions, teachers must classify students into different groups to teach appropriately. For students studying for graduation exams, we will teach them at the level of recognition and understanding. For students who need to take university entrance exams, in addition to basic knowledge, there must be more difficult exercises at the application level.

In addition, teachers will regularly include new exercises in the lesson such as true-false questions and short answer exercises. In addition, students can experience STEM lessons. Students who want to get high scores must try to study hard and know how to apply them in real life to their lessons.

Implementing new exams with new types of exercises will be difficult for both students and teachers. Therefore, teachers must regularly study more books and documents to approach the program.

Teacher Tran Quoc Hai - Vice Principal of Phan Dang Luu High School (Yen Thanh):

Building a question bank for students to access new testing methods

Currently, we have surveyed students' wishes about the 2025 High School Graduation Exam. On that basis, the school has built an educational plan, emphasizing orientation and exam preparation.

Through the implementation, it is shown that although this is the first year of implementing the exam according to the new program, but before that, the orientation has been done right from grade 10, so when registering for the graduation exam, there are not many changes and the school is also convenient in organizing teaching. In addition, with professional groups, the school requires the development of a teaching plan, in which, focusing on the graduation exam and the competency assessment exams.

We also require teachers to innovate teaching and assessment methods to develop students' qualities and abilities, helping them have a solid foundation of knowledge. The school also builds a question bank following the new testing method./.

Nghe An Education Sector takes initiative to adapt to the new General Education Program