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

Representatives from the Ministry of Education and Training stated that they will release sample high school graduation exam questions after mobilizing approximately 3,000 core teachers nationwide to participate in creating the question bank. Regarding Literature, the only essay-based subject in the exam, here are some suggestions for the exam structure:

The basis for constructing exam questions.

Given the unique nature of a curriculum with multiple textbooks, exam content should be based on the overall subject curriculum, using the learning objectives as the primary basis for determining the exam content; textbooks should only serve as learning materials.

If the knowledge tested is primarily limited to the 12th grade curriculum, then the exam needs to focus on this area. A systematic review of all the lessons from the three literature textbooks currently in use is necessary to ensure fair assessment and avoid bias (or randomness) in any particular area of ​​knowledge tested in the exam.

The selection of texts for the exam, which are outside the curriculum and not found in textbooks, requires a truly thorough examination process. The texts selected for the exam "are not found in any textbooks or grade levels studied, including teacher's books, workbooks, etc."

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

In terms of texts, the new curriculum is built on a system of literary genres. Accordingly, there are four genres of texts to be studied: poetry, prose, drama, and argumentative writing.

Finally, the high school graduation exam needs to comprehensively assess students' skills. These include reading comprehension skills and the ability to write argumentative essays on social and literary issues.

Candidates participating in the 2023 high school graduation exam.

The exam should not be too long.

Based on the above, we propose the following for the high school graduation exam in Literature from 2025 onwards: With a time limit of 120 minutes, the exam should not be too long, ideally about one side of an A4 sheet, with a maximum of 1.5 A4 pages. The exam structure should consist of two parts: reading comprehension and essay writing.

Part I: Reading Comprehension. The test will present a new text from one of the four aforementioned genres (poetry, prose, drama, or argumentative essay). If the text is short, quote the entire text in the question. If the text is long, quote only a representative part, and include the remaining parts in a separate excerpt or summary (with notes on the location of the quoted passage) to help candidates understand the entire text. A brief author's information should be included in the question. The reading comprehension questions (approximately 4 questions) should closely adhere to the students' knowledge of the literary genre they have studied, at the following levels: recognition, understanding, connection, and application.

Students in a literature class according to the new program

In Part II: essay writing, instead of the old format of writing a social commentary essay (integrated with the reading comprehension text) first and then a literary analysis essay, this new format should place the literary analysis essay first (question 1), integrated with the text in the reading comprehension section. This literary analysis essay only requires candidates to analyze some typical aspects of the quoted text according to genre characteristics.

The social commentary section should also require writing a paragraph (approximately 200 words), but placed after (sentence 2) the literary analysis question. This section should not be integrated with the reading comprehension text but should be separate. This type of question needs to closely follow the social commentary essay writing styles taught in the new 12th-grade curriculum. If the social commentary paragraph writing question is not separated from the reading comprehension text, candidates will repeat ideas frequently when writing, and will feel monotonous and uninterested in completing the exam.

Regarding the scoring system, it should be divided as follows: reading comprehension: 3 points; writing section: 7 points, including a literary analysis question worth 4 points and a paragraph writing question worth 3 points.

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