10th grade combination exam: Avoid creating pressure for students and parents

(Baonghean) - Opinions of some teachers and educators about theMultiple choice and combined test formats will be applied in the entrance exam to grade 10 high school in Nghe An in the 2017-2018 school year.

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Associate Professor Pham Huy Duc - former Chief of Office of the Department of Education and Training:"The policy of multiple-choice testing, although only implemented in some localities, I personally agree with this policy. This comes from the fact that for a long time, many schools have only taught and studied subjects that have exams and neglected the remaining cultural subjects. For high school students, if we only focus on a few subjects, it will lead to incomplete development and students will become crippled.

The problem is how to organize the exam. In the current conditions, it is quite difficult to organize the exam subjects in the form of combinations. In fact, in the National High School Exam, we call it a combination exam but in essence it is testing many subjects in one exam. For that reason, in the case of students of secondary school age, the education sector must calculate carefully to avoid creating pressure for students and parents.

Mr. Ngo Quang Long - Head of Education and Training Department of Dien Chau district:"The implementation of combined exams is a correct policy because it will avoid the situation of "studying for whatever exam you take", but choosing a number of combined subjects needs to be considered and calculated how many subjects are appropriate. In my opinion, we should not combine too many subjects because it will be too much, causing pressure for students and making it difficult for them to think.

Students of Vinh Tan Secondary School (Vinh city). Photo: My Ha

Currently, although there are no specific instructions from the Department of Education and Training, but determining this as an important task of the school year, the district Education Department has proactively discussed with school principals to implement teaching and learning.

I also hope that if the combined exam subjects are unified, the Department of Education and Training should announce them as soon as possible (maybe March and April, when the subjects have basically finished) so that teachers and students can prepare well for the exam. If we wait until May to announce the third exam subject like previous years, it will be too late."

Teacher Le Thi Oanh - Teacher at Dien Hong Secondary School (Dien Chau):"For many years now, the third subject of the 10th grade entrance exam organized by our province has been mainly Foreign Language. However, Foreign Language is only suitable for teachers in the city, favorable areas and some good students. At Dien Hong Secondary School, the average score for this subject every year is only over 5 points.

From this reality, I think that if we implement the combination subject, it will be fair for all students, fair for regions and student assessment will be more objective. As for teachers, in the first year of implementation, we will certainly encounter many difficulties, but I think that in the current conditions when information technology is developing, we can "overcome" it.

In addition, we also hope that the Department will soon have specific instructions in the school year's program; at the same time, focus on key contents and limit the scope of knowledge so that review and teaching work can be effective. In addition, some "illustrative" questions will be soon announced according to the official exam structure so that teachers and students can practice and get used to the way of making questions and taking multiple-choice tests"./.

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