Exam review: Phu Tho has 6 national high school exam papers with changed scores
The Examination Council of the Phu Tho Department of Education and Training has just released a report reviewing and evaluating the organization of the 2018 national high school exam. A total of 6 local exams had their scores changed after the review.
Implementing the direction of the Minister of Education and Training and the People's Committee of Phu Tho province on reviewing and evaluating the organization of the 2018 national high school exam. On July 30, the Department of Education and Training of Phu Tho completed the review and evaluation and sent a report to the Head of the Steering Committee for the 2018 national high school exam of the province to report to the Ministry of Education and Training.
In this year's national high school entrance exam, Phu Tho has a total of 13,511 Literature exams and 39,696 multiple-choice exams (Math 13,633; Foreign Language 12,123; Natural Sciences 3,251; Social Sciences 10,689).
Mr. Nguyen Minh Tuong, Director of the Department of Education and Training of Phu Tho province, said that on July 30, the Phu Tho Exam Score Review Council had just finished grading 226 exam papers, and the results of 6 papers had their scores changed after the review.
For the Literature exam, out of 54 re-examined papers, 3 had their scores changed. The score increase was insignificant, 0.25 points.
For the Math exam, after re-scoring 69 exams, the scores of the exams remained unchanged.
In the English test, the Review Council graded a total of 35 papers, of which 3 had their scores changed because the candidates filled in the wrong test code.
French exam, there was a review but no change in score.
The Council also re-evaluated 33 Natural Science exams and 34 Social Science exams but did not change the scores.
Thus, there are a total of 6 exams with changed scores after review.
Mr. Tuong said that the review results did not affect the graduation recognition results of the 6 candidates.
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| Officials marking the 2018 national high school exam. Photo: Thanh Hung |
According to Mr. Tuong, the Phu Tho Department of Education and Training has seriously reviewed and evaluated the implementation process of the national high school exam. Specifically, the preparation work; printing and copying of exam papers; transportation and handover of exam papers; especially the invigilation work at the exam sites; handover of exam papers and exam records; making of essay exam papers; marking of exams (marking essay exams in Literature and marking multiple-choice exams); inspection work; archiving of exam papers and exam records.
The Department has also conducted a thorough review of all high-scoring exams.
Specifically, for the essay test in Literature: Check and review 256 test papers with scores of 8.5 or higher (compare the announced scores with the scores on the agreed minutes of the examiners). The results of the 256 test papers are all correct.
For objective multiple-choice tests, the Department compared the scanned original test image files stored in the computer (sealed) with the software's image recognition results of the tests with scores of 9 or higher with a total of 273 multiple-choice tests: Math, Foreign Language, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences.
As a result, all the tested papers matched the candidate's coloring of the paper with the image recognition results of the test.
Thus, according to Mr. Tuong, after reviewing, all procedures and stages in the organization of the 2018 national high school exam in Phu Tho province were implemented in accordance with the exam regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training, ensuring accuracy, fairness and objectivity.
