Nghe An: There are 16 national high school exam sites with no candidates taking the History exam.
There is one more day to close the registration for the national high school exam. Preliminary information shows that many testing sites only have 1-2 candidates registered for the elective subjects.
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Many examination boards "blank" History candidates |
In Hai Duong, there are more than 18,000 12th grade students and about 350 independent students taking the exam with 800 students registering to take the exam for graduation. Initial data shows that in the exam cluster organized by the Department of Education and Training, Biology also has the fewest students choosing to take the exam with 75 students, Physics has 440 students, Chemistry has 388 students.
If each district has 1 exam site, there will be exam sites with less than 10 students registered for the exam and exam rooms with only 1-2 students.
Thus, in the upcoming exam, there will be exam rooms with only 1-2 candidates. For example, Binh Giang district has 4 candidates taking the chemistry exam, Cam Giang district has 7 candidates taking the physics exam, 8 candidates taking the chemistry exam; Chi Linh town has only 1 candidate taking the biology exam, Ninh Giang district has only 1 candidate taking the biology exam and 1 candidate taking the history exam. Notably, Cam Giang, Tu Ky, Gia Loc districts... have no candidates taking the biology exam.
The leader of the Department of Education and Training of Hai Duong said that although there are very few candidates at some examination sites, the organization is still ensured to be in accordance with the regulations. The Department is currently receiving and collecting the candidates' documents.
In Hanoi,Preliminary survey of the Department at schools shows that for candidates registering for exams at clusters chaired by the Department only for graduation recognition, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and History have the least registration (Biology 1,550 candidates; Chemistry 1,564, Physics 1,568 and History 2,542 candidates) out of a total of more than 66,000 candidates.
Due to the large difference in the number of students registering for each subject, there are exam sites with only a few students. The Hanoi Department of Education and Training will research to organize the exam to ensure safety, in accordance with regulations and without causing waste.
Statistics from the Department of Education and Training of Nghe An show that,This year, the exam clusters chaired by the Department of Education and Training have 12,113 candidates taking the exam at 26 exam sites. Notably, out of the total 26 expected exam sites, only 41/12,113 candidates chose to take the History exam, and up to 16 exam sites have no candidates taking the History exam.
In Ben Tre, preliminary survey, up to this point, Ben Tre has 9,302 candidates registered for the exam (not including independent candidates), nearly 3,000 candidates less than the previous school year
Of which, the number of candidates registering for the provincial cluster exam for high school graduation only is 2,261 (24%); the number of candidates registering for the university cluster exam is 7,041 (76%). The rate of candidates registering for the graduation and university cluster exam is about the same as last year.
According to preliminary statistics, the rate of elective subjects is similar to last year. Among them, Chemistry is the subject with the most students; the subjects with the fewest students are History, Biology, Geography, and Physics.
In many high schools, History is still a subject that is rarely chosen by students.
In Hanoi,The numbers are still being updated by the high school. However, preliminary data at Viet Duc High School, Hoan Kiem District shows that only 18 students chose History as their exam subject out of a total of 628 students.
At Nguyen Thi Minh Khai High School, students taking the A block exam (Math, Physics, Chemistry) chose to take the Physics exam, students taking the D block exam (Math, Literature, English) chose to take the Geography exam, and some students chose to take the History exam at the end of the first semester, but when it came time to submit their registration forms, there were no more students left.
In Ho Chi Minh City,In Hung Hoa High School (Binh Tan District), only 3/320 students chose history; Tan Binh High School (Tan Phu District) only had 4 students choose it; Nguyen Chi Thanh High School (Tan Binh District) had 7/221 students; Nguyen Huu Tho High School (District 4) had 16/338 students choose this subject.