Abnormalities in the national high school exam scores of Ha Giang

Statistics on the 2018 national high school exam scores show that the average score of 9 national high school exam subjects in the mountainous border province of Ha Giang is among the lowest in the country. Specifically, Math, Biology, Geography, Civic Education ranked 62nd; Physics, Chemistry ranked 59th;Literature, Foreign Languages, History ranked last.

However, the number of excellent scores of 9 or higher in natural sciences is unusually high. Ha Giang has 57 candidates with excellent scores.Mathsfrom 9 and above, accounting for more than 1% of the total number of students taking the exam (5,430). Meanwhile, in localities with a tradition of good scores in natural sciences such as Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and Nam Dinh, the percentage of excellent scores in Math is far lower.

Specifically, Ho Chi Minh City has 14 times more candidates taking the Math exam (78,030) but only has 32 points.9 and above, accounting for 0.04%. This rate in Hanoi and Nam Dinh only reached 0.1% and 0.59% respectively.

Ha Giang's failure score in Math (from 0 to under 1) is very low, only 22 points, accounting for 0.4%. While Ho Chi Minh City has 538 (accounting for 0.68%), Hanoi has 41 failure scores.

Compared with 2017, Ha Giang's failing score remained unchanged, but the score of 9 or higher increased 2.59 times.

Meanwhile, this year's national high school math exam was assessed by students and teachers to be longer and more difficult than previous years. The whole country only had 2 students with a score of 10 in math, and 640 students with a score of 9.

In the subjectPhysics, Ha Giang has up to 65 points from 9 and above, accounting for 6.7% of the total number of candidates taking the exam. The number of failing points is only 1 (0.1%). This is completely opposite to the results of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Specifically, Ho Chi Minh City has 283 times higher failing scores than Ha Giang (nearly 0.6%), but the rate of scores of 9 and above is 95.7 times lower. Similarly, Ha Giang's high score rate is 23 times higher than Hanoi's.

Compare the Physics score ratio of Ha Giang, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Nam Dinh.

SubjectChemistryHa Giang has a rate of candidates scoring 9 points or more of 6.3%, many times higher than Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

The above irregularities make the public doubt the accuracy of the national high school exam results in Ha Giang, and the seriousness of the exam supervision and grading. Because Ha Giang is a northern mountainous province with more than 80% of the population belonging to the Mong, Tay, Dao, and Nung ethnic groups. The remote area makes it very difficult to mobilize children to go to school.

Representative of Banking Academy - the school that coordinated the 2018 national high school exam with Ha Giang, Mr. Pham Quoc Khanh affirmed that 200 lecturers of the school participated in proctoring, inspecting, supervising, and acting as deputy heads of exam sites, all strictly followed the regulations. Most of these are personnel with many years of experience in proctoring exams, and have a high sense of responsibility during their work at the school.

Before going to Ha Giang to supervise the exam, the Banking Academy also organized two thorough training sessions on all the contents of the national high school exam regulations, noting the changes. "We are confident that all the school's staff and lecturers will take the exam according to the procedures and regulations," said Mr. Khanh.

Compare scores of 9 or higher in 4 subjects of 5 localities.

Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ha Giang, Vu Van Su, when answering the press, also affirmed that the organization of the exam, invigilation and grading of papers were all serious, with supervision by inspectors, PA83.

On the evening of July 12, the Ministry of Education and Training issued a dispatch requesting the Steering Committee for the 2018 National High School Exam in Ha Giang province to review all stages of the exam. The report must be sent to the Ministry before July 17.

Quynh Trang