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| Parents are excited when their children have finished the 10th grade entrance exam. Photo: DUC NGUYEN |
Bringing reality into the exam
Ms. Nguyen Nguyet Nga, a Literature teacher at Viet Duc High School, affirmed that with the 2018 generaleducation program, the most difficult thing when making questions is choosing the Literature subject materials. Because the materials must meet many requirements of the exam structure, not included in the textbook. This year's Literature exam meets this requirement. Ms. Lam Kieu Ninh, a teacher at Dong Da Secondary School, said: Literature is the subject that students and teachers are most nervous about, but after the exam, teachers feel relieved, students are also happy and excited.
Mr. Mai Anh Hung, a Math teacher at Tran Phu High School, commented that this year's exam had a very interesting practical problem. Problem 5 asked how many more cars the business should invest in to maximize its profit. According to calculations, the answer includes two solutions: investing in 7 cars or investing in 8 cars, and the highest profit is 36,125,000 VND. "The problem is related to reality but not yet realistic. Because if there is no special reason, the probability that the boss invests in 8 cars is not possible. Because when investing in 7 cars or 8 cars with the same interest rate, the boss will definitely choose the 7 car option, so there is no need to calculate the probability of 8 cars. Therefore, the person who created the test only brought the problem of reality into Mathematics, not using Mathematics to solve reality," said Mr. Hung. However, Mr. Hung affirmed that this year's Math test brings new colors and a breath of life.
Mr. Trinh Hoai Duong, a teacher at Giang Vo 2 Secondary School, Ba Dinh, commented that this year's Math exam has many new points. In particular, statistical probability is included in the exam right from question 1. Second, previously, the exam required candidates to perform the command to solve the problem by creating an equation or system of equations. This year, to meet the requirements of assessing students' abilities, there is no imposition (so this command no longer exists), students can solve it using any type of math, as long as they have the correct method and answer. Third, modeling Math, converting everyday language into math problems. In addition, Mr. Duong affirmed that question 5 (the last question) is different from the old exam. In previous years, this question was often an optimization problem such as finding the smallest or largest value or proving an inequality, which are highly technical types of questions but far from application.
This year, the paper requires students to solve a real-world situation involving a production-profit optimization problem. Students must model, formulate algebraically from context, analyze conditions, and make logical mathematical arguments.
The Hanoi Department of Education and Training said that it is expected that from July 4 to 7, it will announce the 10th grade exam scores on the department's information portal and announce the admission scores for public high schools. This year, the exam scores and admission scores will be announced on the same day. By July 8 at the latest, schools will receive the exam result notification. From July 10 to 12, admitted students must confirm their enrollment (online or in person). On July 17, schools that do not have enough students will enroll additional students and from July 19 to 22, admitted students will confirm their enrollment.
There is no such thing as "tight dot, loose dot"
In response to concerns about whether there is a phenomenon of loose or strict marking for essay subjects in the exam, especially Literature; at the conference to inform about the results of the 10th grade entrance exam held by the Hanoi Department of Education and Training late in the morning of June 8, Mr. Tran The Cuong, Director of the Department of Education and Training, affirmed that such a situation would not happen (the responsibility of the Department is to ensure the organization of safe, serious, and objective marking of the exam). After marking, the marking council will randomly select a number of test papers to check to ensure accuracy and fairness.
Ms. Nguyen Nguyet Nga, who has participated in the grading of 10th grade exams for many years, shared that the grading team is always carefully selected every year. The organization process is carried out seriously, with close supervision; grading instructions are disseminated in detail, so candidates and their parents can be completely assured.
Overall comments on this year’s exam, teachers said that the exam no longer has tricky, tricky questions. One of the notable changes in this year’s exam is that each large question is no longer a collection of separate ideas, but is designed in clusters of closely related topics, logically linked in terms of knowledge and skills. This creates favorable conditions for students when doing the test. Small ideas in the same sentence can take advantage of a unified flow of thinking, helping to save time and increase presentation efficiency.
This is a clear transition in the way of constructing competency-based exams, from discrete assessment to integrated assessment. In particular, the Math exam has more than 50% of mathematical situations originating from real-life contexts, such as score statistics tables, revenue production problems, familiar spatial geometry problems in architecture or industry... The problems not only require students to perform mathematical techniques but also to understand the nature of the context, know how to analyze data, model and choose a solution method, thereby correctly assessing application capacity - the focus of the new program.
The Hanoi Department of Education and Training affirmed that the exam supervision was carried out seriously; the transportation of exam papers was carried out safely and securely. The coordination of forces in organizing the exam was carried out synchronously and closely. 100% of the exam sites did not have power outages during the exam. The forces had many initiatives to support and encourage candidates to take the exam.
Today, June 9, candidates took the specialized exam at 4 specialized high schools in Hanoi including: Chu Van An Specialized High School, Nguyen Hue Specialized High School, Son Tay Specialized High School and Hanoi - Amsterdam Specialized High School.
Source: https://tienphong.vn/de-thi-khong-con-danh-do-post1749483.tpo
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