3 dos, 2 don'ts during 10th grade exam days

Today, June 5, students in Ho Chi Minh City began arriving at the exam site to check their personal information and learn about the 10th grade exam regulations. This weekend, students in Hanoi will also begin their exams.

To have a safe and effective 10th grade exam, what should and should not candidates and parents do?

BE CALM AND CONFIDENT

Mr. Nguyen Hong Thai, a school health worker at Nguyen Van Tang High School, Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City, said that in order to be calm and confident during the exam, students need to study and practice thoroughly beforehand.

When entering the exam room, students are usually nervous and tense. According to Mr. Thai, to overcome this, students should take a deep breath and spend the first few minutes reading the exam carefully. When they see that the exam has some difficult parts, or they have not studied well, to regain their composure, they should do the easy parts first, the parts that will definitely get them points, then do the more difficult parts.

Ms. Lai Thi Thuy Huong, a school health worker at Ho Chi Minh City Vocational College, said that many candidates often experience stomachaches in the exam room due to stress, nervousness, and excessive anxiety, which causes the intestines to be stimulated and the need to go to the bathroom constantly. This greatly affects the time spent on the exam. Therefore, during the 10th grade exam days, parents should accompany and encourage their children on every path, so that they have good health and avoid excessive anxiety and stress.

Students are anxious before important exams so they really need the companionship of their parents.

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SHOULD "GO THERE, COME HOME"

Recently, in Binh Thuan, a tragic drowning incident occurred. A male student who had just finished his 10th grade literature exam went swimming with his friends in a pond, leading to drowning and death. In response to this information, Ms. Lai Thi Thuy Huong advised parents to strengthen their reminders and supervision of their children. In particular, do not be subjective before and during important exam days, especially in localities with many lakes, rivers, streams, and canals.

Candidates should not go out with friends without their parents' permission. At the same time, take time to rest and enjoy with family to ensure the best health and safety during the exam. After finishing each subject, candidates should go home to eat and rest to ensure their health in preparation for the next subjects; do not go out or swim in rivers, lakes, or the sea with friends to avoid unfortunate incidents.

PARENTS SHOULD ARRANGE AND ACCOMPANY THEIR CHILDREN

During the 10th grade exam days, a stable TS mentality is the most important thing. Doctor Phan Thi Thanh Ha, Head of the Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases Department, District 8 Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, advises parents, no matter how busy they are, to spend time accompanying their children during these days. Accompanying them can be taking them to the exam school, cooking hot meals for them, ensuring food hygiene and safety, reminding them to wake up on time, avoiding forgetting exam time, reminding them to strengthen their resistance, preventing respiratory diseases to have good health to do the exam...

Accompanying is also before the exam day, parents remind their children to carefully check their personal documents, exam cards, pens, calculators, and watches that are allowed in the exam room. Don't let the exam day get close to the parents still scolding: "How far have you studied at this time?". Before that, you should spend time with your children to the exam site, to avoid the situation on the exam day when they are panicking to find the way, then get stuck in traffic, get lost, be late... leading to panic and loss of composure.

In particular, according to Dr. Ha, on exam days, students are anxious, making it difficult to fall asleep and easily losing their composure. If children are allowed to drive themselves to the exam site, there is a potential risk of unsafety, and many unfortunate incidents may occur. Therefore, parents should arrange a time to pick up and drop off their children on exam days.

Ms. Lai Thi Thuy Huong also shared that the companionship of parents during the days of their children's 10th grade exams is also a way of asking questions, encouraging, helping children to stay mentally comfortable. Parents should avoid putting more pressure on their children, not imposing their wishes on them, not comparing their children with other children, but should encourage their children that no matter what the exam results are, their parents will always be by their side.

Don't stay up late

Doctor Phan Thi Thanh Ha said that the exam plan has been in place for a long time, students have had a long time to study and take the exam, so close to the exam date and during the exam days, students should not abuse foods containing caffeine - stimulants found in coffee, tea... and then concentrate on studying all night long.

Students should go to bed early, wake up early to have breakfast, review their lessons and then take the exam. This helps to avoid the brain being "frozen" and not thinking clearly. Students need to get enough sleep to stay alert, regenerate energy to do well on the exam, and avoid falling asleep in the exam room. To relax and not be too stressed during these days, students can listen to music, move around, and do light exercise to keep their bodies healthy.

Parents' companionship during their children's 10th grade exam days is also a way to inquire, encourage, and help their children stay mentally comfortable.

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DON'T TAKE A BREAK AND EAT STRANGE FOODS

Mr. Nguyen Hong Thai said that the very important thing that students and parents must pay attention to before and during exam days is to only eat familiar foods and avoid strange foods.

There are situations that many families have encountered: "Tomorrow the children have an exam, tonight the whole family should rest and relax, go out to a restaurant to relax." Meals that are too full, too rich, and not used to digestion can lead to stomach aches. Students can get gastrointestinal diseases and have no energy to take the exam the next day. Especially, during this period, students should eat cooked food, drink boiled water, and ensure food hygiene and safety. It is best that during exam days, students should eat at home, limit eating at restaurants, sidewalks, and places that sell food of unknown origin to prevent food poisoning.

Notes before entering the exam room

There are 76,435 candidates registered to take the 10th grade exam in Ho Chi Minh City for the 2025-2026 school year. The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training mobilized 13,272 teachers as invigilators and 2,070 staff, security guards, police... to work at the exam sites.

Before the exam takes place, the examination officers of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City remind candidates of the following contents to avoid unfortunate mistakes when entering the exam room:

When present at the exam site, candidates must bring identification documents such as registration form (with photo), student card, CCCD with chip...

Candidates are allowed to bring into the examination room pens, rulers, pencils, erasers, squares, graphing rulers, drawing tools, and calculators without text editing functions and without memory cards. Prohibited from bringing into the examination room: carbon paper, correction pens, alcoholic beverages; weapons and explosives, flammable substances; documents, communication equipment (receiving, broadcasting information, recording audio, video) or containing information to cheat during the test.

Before taking the exam, candidates must write their registration number and information on the exam paper, exam paper, multiple choice answer sheet, and scratch paper. When receiving the exam paper, they must carefully check the number of pages and the quality of the printed pages; if they discover that the exam paper is missing pages or is torn, damaged, smudged, or faded, they must immediately report to the invigilator in the exam room, no later than 5 minutes from the start of the exam time.

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Watch suggested solutions for 10th grade exam questions in Ho Chi Minh City on Thanh Nien Online

The 10th grade entrance exam in Ho Chi Minh City will take place on June 6 and 7 with three subjects: literature, math and foreign language.

In which, literature and math have 120 minutes/subject; foreign language 90 minutes. Candidates taking specialized/integrated exams will have an additional 150-minute exam.

In order to meet the needs of students and parents to learn about the exam, Thanh Nien Newspaper will provide suggested solutions for the math, literature, and English subjects of the 10th grade exam of Ho Chi Minh City on thanhnien.vn after each exam. Please follow along.

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