Female student from remote area becomes top student in province's excellent Geography subject

The small, simple house located in the middle of village 4, Long Son commune these days is always bustling with people coming to congratulate Truong Thi Huong's family.

Talking to us, Ms. Tran Thi Ha - Huong's mother shared: Huong was born into a family of two siblings, the family's circumstances were still difficult, so for the past 5 years, both her husband and she followed a group of workers in the village to Hue city to work as construction workers. Huong stayed at home with her aunt.

Recently, Huong has entered the period of studying for the excellent student exam, so Ha asked for leave to take care of her child. Loving her parents, Huong is very considerate, diligent, and hard-working in helping her parents with everything. Regarding studying, Huong has been studying on her own since she was a child because her parents work far from home. A few days ago, when she heard that her child was one of the students with high achievements in the provincial excellent student exam, the family was very proud.

Having no outstanding achievements throughout her primary and secondary school years, when preparing for the 10th grade entrance exam, Truong Thi Huong determined that as long as she tried hard and was determined, she could study well in any environment, so she did not register for the entrance exam to high schools in the area but applied to the district's Center for Vocational Education - Continuing Education.

During the first days of studying at the District Vocational Education - Continuing Education Center, thinking about my parents working hard under the sun as construction workers, or the video calls from far away with their sunburned, sweaty faces to earn money for my education, I told myself to try my best. At that time, I set myself the goal of trying my best and studying even harder.

Sharing about her learning process, Huong said: Starting in grade 10, I looked for a subject that I was good at and chose Geography, because I found this subject to be close, practical, and lively, helping me explore life and nature. The more I studied, the more passionate I became.

Huong shared that, for Geography, her way of learning is to first thoroughly grasp the textbooks, because knowledge from textbooks is the basic foundation. In addition to thoroughly studying the basic knowledge and mastering data processing methods, Huong also regularly watches news on mass media to update current and social information to include in the application exercises. In addition, she spends a lot of time practicing questions as well as carefully studying how to use the Geography Atlas.

Huong said that during the process of participating in the training of excellent students, she took advantage of all her time and built a reasonable and effective learning method. During this time, she and her teacher studied at full capacity. In addition to studying and reviewing at school, in the evening, regardless of rain or shine, she went to her teacher's house to study from 7 to 10 pm and practiced many types of questions. She also often went online to download documents and collect more types of exercises from many different sources to find a solution for herself.

With a reasonable learning method, combined with diligence and hard work, in this year's provincial excellent student exam for grade 12, Truong Thi Huong achieved the top score in Geography for the Continuing Education group with a score of 14.25. That achievement for a student studying at the Center for Vocational Education - Continuing Education in a mountainous district, living far away from her parents like Huong, this is truly a commendable effort.

“I feel very happy because I did not expect to be able to do that. I am happy because I have brought back achievements and become the pride of the Center. This is only a temporary result, the road ahead, I know I still have to try very hard.” - Huong said emotionally.

Ms. Tran Thi Huong - the homeroom teacher and also the Geography tutor of Truong Thi Huong said: “Her achievements in grade 10 were not really outstanding, but when I discovered that she was a female student with a sense of learning, proactive in acquiring knowledge, and a spirit of learning, in grade 11 I put Huong into the Geography team. She passed the school's excellent student exam, and then used her as a source for excellent students of the province in grade 12. During the whole process of studying and reviewing for the exam, Huong always tried her best and was diligent in researching. When I knew her exam results, as the person who directly taught and guided Huong, I was overwhelmed with happiness. The results achieved are proof of Huong's promise and efforts, the result of many efforts of teachers and students, and also a great source of encouragement for our team of teachers to have more passion and enthusiasm for the profession".

Teacher Nguyen Thi Thu Ha - Deputy Director of the Vocational Education - Continuing Education Center of Anh Son district shared: In this year's provincial excellent student competition, the Center had 5 students participating in the competition, the result was 1 student won First Prize in Geography, 1 Third Prize in Mathematics and 1 Encouragement Prize in Chemistry. This is a source of pride and motivation for students to continue to try and strive even harder in the future./.