What should the high school graduation exam in literature be like from 2025 with many textbooks?

The representative of the Ministry of Education and Training said that they will announce the sample high school graduation exam questions after mobilizing about 3,000 core teachers nationwide to participate in creating the exam question bank. For the Literature subject, the only essay subject of the exam, here are some suggestions on the exam structure:

Basis for test construction

Due to the special nature of a program with many textbooks, the content of the exam should be based on the overall program of the subject, taking the requirements to be achieved as the main basis to determine the content of the exam, the textbooks are just learning materials.

If the knowledge is limited mainly to grade 12, the exam questions must focus on this limitation. It is necessary to systematically operate all the lessons of the 3 literature textbooks currently used for teaching to have a fair assessment, avoiding bias (or luck) about certain knowledge areas in the exam questions.

The selection of texts to be included in the exam questions is a text outside the curriculum, not in the textbooks, requiring the exam questions to be truly thorough. The texts selected for the exam questions "are not included in any set of books, any class studied, including teacher's books, exercise books...".

For literature, the new General Education Program assesses students' four skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. However, due to its characteristics, the high school graduation exam mainly assesses only two skills: reading and writing.

Regarding writing, the new program is built on the basis of a system of writing genres. Accordingly, there are 4 types of writing to be studied including poetry, prose, drama and argumentative writing.

Finally, the high school graduation exam needs to assess students' skills quite comprehensively. That is the skill of reading and understanding text, the skill of writing an argumentative essay on a social and literary issue.

Candidates taking the 2023 high school graduation exam

The test should not be too long.

Based on the above, we propose that the high school graduation exam for literature from 2025 be as follows: With a test time of 120 minutes, the exam should not be too long, about one A4 page is ideal, maximum 1.5 A4 pages. The exam structure consists of two parts: reading comprehension and writing.

Part I: Reading comprehension, the topic is a new text, belonging to one of the four genres mentioned above (poetry, prose, drama or argumentative text). If the text is short, quote the whole thing in the topic. If the text is long, quote only a typical part, the remaining parts are included in a separate excerpt or summary (with the location of the quote noted) so that candidates can understand the entire text. There should be brief information about the author included in the topic. Reading comprehension questions (about 4 questions) should closely follow the literary knowledge of the genre that students have learned, according to the levels: recognition, understanding, connection, application.

Students in a literature class according to the new program

In part II: writing, instead of following the old way of writing a social paragraph (integrated with a reading comprehension text) first and then a literary essay, this new question should put the literary essay first (question 1), integrated with the text in the reading comprehension section. This literary essay section only requires candidates to analyze some typical aspects in the excerpt according to genre characteristics.

The social essay section should also require a paragraph (about 200 words) but placed after (sentence 2) the literary essay. This section is not integrated with the reading comprehension text but is separated. This type of question needs to closely follow the social writing styles in grade 12 according to the new program. If the social paragraph writing is not separated from the reading comprehension text, candidates will repeat ideas a lot when writing, and feel monotonous and uninterested when doing the test.

Regarding the scoring scale, it should be divided as follows: reading comprehension: 3 points; writing: 7, in which the literary argument question is 4 points and the paragraph writing question is 3 points.

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