Many changes in the graduation exam
Recently, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) announced the method of organizing the 2025 high school graduation exam. This is the first graduation exam for the biology course according to the 2018 General Education Program.
Accordingly, students must take 4 exams, of which Math and Literature are mandatory subjects. Regarding the exam format, the Literature exam is in the form of an essay. The remaining subjects are tested in multiple-choice format. Candidates must take 2 elective subjects from the remaining subjects learned in grade 12 (Foreign Language, History, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Economic and Legal Education, Informatics , Technology).
Will the 2025 high school graduation exam have many changes in the way the exam questions are set?
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The number of college admission combinations is likely to be fewer Dr. Nguyen Trung Nhan - Head of Training Department, Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry, said that universities currently need to be provided with complete data on the situation of students registering to choose subjects in new general education program to have a basis for building appropriate admission methods, especially in building admission subject combinations. |
Thus, compared to the current high school graduation exam, the number of subjects tested from 2025 will be reduced by 2 subjects. The combined exam of Natural Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Biology) and Social Sciences (History, Geography, Civic Education) is no longer available.
After the Ministry of Education and Training officially announced the exam plan, many opinions agreed because this plan has the advantage of reducing exam pressure for students when they reduce 2 subjects compared to the number of subjects tested. Currently; Reduce costs for students' families and society when the number of exam sessions is only 3, reducing the number of exam sessions compared to today.
Besides, many people worry that learning foreign languages will be neglected. Regarding this issue, Mr. Huynh Thanh Chuong - Director of the Department of Quality Management said that according to the current program, from grades 3 to 12, students can study and take the foreign language test of their choice, not just English.
Studying and taking assessments during the process is the most important foundation for students to improve and improve the quality of their foreign language skills. Emphasizing further, Mr. Chuong said that the Ministry of Education and Training is also very interested in the issue of foreign language training for learners, specifically evidenced by the fact that foreign language teaching is integrated throughout the entire university level.
“Currently, according to the six-level foreign language competency framework, every student who wants to graduate must have a minimum foreign language certificate at level 3/6. Therefore, we cannot look at a high school graduation exam to say that it is affecting the process of teaching and learning foreign languages." – Mr. Chuong said.
Many changes but is it new?
Besides worrying about the quality of foreign language teaching and learning, the way questions and exam layout are also things that many students and teachers are very concerned about. Because the new high school program does not train in the direction of imparting knowledge but forming capacity. Therefore, what type of questions the exam has is something that many students are interested in at this time.
Nguyen Thi Hien - 11th grade student, Kim Lien High School (Hanoi) said that she is anxiously waiting for the Ministry of Education and Training to soon issue demonstration exam questions. This is the first graduation exam under the new general education program, so there will certainly be many changes. “I and my friends really want the exam to have content close to the curriculum, ensuring the goal of assessing the capacity of the new educational program. Currently, each school uses different textbooks, so the exam will not have the material in the textbook, so reviewing is also something I am very interested in right now" - Nguyen Thi Hien shared.
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College admission will not cause difficulties for candidates Master Le Phan Quoc - Deputy Head of the Training Department, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, said that university admission in general will have many changes in admission combinations when new subjects appear in the curriculum. 2018 general education program. Universities will have to develop a plan that matches the training context of current high school students to be able to recruit candidates suitable for the school and the industry. He advises students to feel secure with their subject choices and not worry too much about the difficulty of pursuing their favorite major when they leave high school. |
Sharing the same opinion as Nguyen Thi Hien, many students now expect changes in the way of setting and asking questions in the 2025 high school graduation exam. Nguyen Thi Hoai - student at Phan Dinh Phung High School, Ha Tinh, when sharing with reporters from Journalist & Public Opinion Newspaper, said: If multiple-choice exams no longer test knowledge but test capacity, there will certainly be many surprises.
“In the past few years, many universities have held competency assessment exams, and the exam method is different from studying at high school, causing many surprises for students. Therefore, it is expected that the new exam will be close to students, but it should not be too demanding in terms of testing memorization and memorization knowledge like the current high school graduation exam." – Nguyen Thi Hoai expressed.
Not only students but many teachers are also waiting for a change in the way of asking questions in the 2025 high school exam. Talking to a reporter from Journalist & Public Opinion Newspaper, Ms. Nguyen Thi Tu Anh (Literature Teacher in Hanoi ) shared that she hopes that if the exam format has changed, the content of the exam will also change. “New bottle, new wine. Innovation should not be just an external form" - Ms. Nguyen Thi Tu Anh emphasized.
Regarding this issue, talking to the press, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Ha - Deputy Director of the Department of Quality Management, Ministry of Education and Training informed that, in parallel with the preparation of the 2025 graduation exam plan, the leaders of the Ministry of Education and Training are directing Research the structure and format of exam banks early. The 2025 high school graduation exam will be built in the direction of overcoming the large score difference between subjects, especially the subject groups between Social Sciences and Natural Sciences.
“The Ministry will have training for teachers in all subjects of the 2025 high school graduation exam with 63 provinces and cities and a number of higher education institutions participating, contributing a lot to the high school graduation exam. The training was conducted in an online format, with about more than 3.000 teachers participating. This is the core team that masters the program, masters the testing theory, and the exam question bank will be changed from the ground up." – Mr. Ha said.
In principle, according to Mr. Ha, the time to announce the illustration questions for the 2025 high school graduation exam will be when students study the 12th grade program. However, this is an important time to guide teaching. , student learning. Therefore, the leaders of the Ministry of Education and Training decided that immediately after testing the format and structure, they will announce the format, illustrative structure, and simulation in the direction of the 2025 exam structure.
It can be seen that the exam content will certainly have many changes, which is causing anxious waiting for students studying the new general education program. Therefore, having illustrated test questions early to help students be more proactive in studying for exams is something that needs to be considered soon.
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