Nghe An officially reduces subjects in the 10th grade entrance exam

This year's exam will still be conducted in the form of an entrance exam and admission based on the number of applications from students applying to the school. An entrance exam will be held if the number of applications exceeds the assigned quota and admission will be considered with the remaining schools.

Review session of 9th grade students at Hermann Gmeiner High School. Photo: My Ha

Regarding the form of the entrance exam, this year the exam will still consist of three subjects: Math, Literature and Combination. However, while in previous years the combination exam consisted of three subjects: Foreign Language and the remaining two subjects were randomly drawn from among the subjects in the fields of Natural Sciences and Social Sciences, this year the number of subjects in the combination exam has been reduced to two.

Specifically, the combined subject exam consists of 50 multiple-choice questions, including 33 questions for foreign languages ​​and 17 questions for the remaining subjects selected from Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, History and Civic Education. The scores for the Math and Literature exams have a coefficient of 2 and the combined subject has a coefficient of 1.

The exam is expected to take place on June 6 and 7, 2020. The exam content is within the scope of the secondary school program issued by the Ministry of Education and Training, mainly grade 9.

Candidates taking the 10th grade entrance exam. Photo: My Ha

Thus, with this change, this year's exam for students taking the 10th grade entrance exam has reduced a lot of pressure during the exam preparation process. Previously, for many years, Nghe An organized the 10th grade entrance exam with 3 subjects, of which Math and Literature were compulsory subjects, the third subject was a random subject.

For the past two years, the organization of the third exam, the Combination exam with three subjects, has caused many difficulties for teachers and students, especially since from the time the subject was known to the exam until the exam was organized, there was only about 2 months of review.