Don't overwhelm students with lengthy reading comprehension materials.

The reading comprehension text for 6th grade literature is 1.5 pages long (A4 paper) and contains 63 lines.

My daughter's end-of-semester 1 Vietnamese language and literature exam in 6th grade recently made me ponder the use of materials outside of the textbook.

When I picked up my daughter, I noticed the anxiety of a little girl who loves literature and enjoys being creative with language. She looked downcast, saying the reading comprehension passage was too long, and it took her too much time to understand and answer the 10 questions. Taking the essay from her, I was truly overwhelmed by the incredibly long passage.

The teacher assigned a question quoting a passage from the memoir "Wild Grass" by writer Tô Hoài. Perhaps the teacher wanted students to fully appreciate the character's feelings on their first day of school, along with the kindness of their gentle grandmother. However, the test question included a passage spanning one and a half pages (A4 size) with approximately 63 lines of prose.

With this text, students must read and analyze each character, understand each detail, and connect their Vietnamese language knowledge to answer eight multiple-choice questions. In the two essay questions, students must express their feelings about the content, the message derived from the text, and relate it to their own experiences…

Requiring sixth-grade students to read and understand completely new material not covered in the curriculum in order to complete 10 questions is truly overwhelming and puts too much pressure on them.

The text is one and a half pages long (A4 size) with approximately 63 lines of prose.

Understanding the content of a text is one thing, but expressing it in sentences and using appropriate vocabulary is another. Teachers can only hope that students will identify the correct issue and focus on the main point; they cannot force them to analyze it in depth.

This literature exam shows that we are setting excessively high expectations for students who are just starting to enter junior high school. The end-of-term exam, intended to assess students' abilities and adjust teachers' teaching methods, is becoming a stressful race, precisely because of these challenging questions!

Previously, there have also been controversies regarding inappropriate or excessively long exam materials for literature in many schools.

The 11th grade literature test included 70 poems.

Textbooks are overwhelming for students: What's the solution?

While literature is increasingly perceived as dry and "difficult to digest," leading students to study it superficially, wouldn't challenging essay topics like these only make students more discouraged?

The test materials for the literature subject must be selected to be age-appropriate.

With the end-of-year exams approaching nationwide, many localities are assigning the task of creating exam questions to subject departments in schools, and it is highly likely that we will continue to see controversial essay questions regarding their source material.

I believe that every teacher, when designing essay topics, should pay more attention to selecting materials outside of textbooks and should adhere to the following three principles:

Firstly, the materials are appropriate to the genre characteristics in the curriculum, and the difficulty level is equivalent to the required knowledge, skills, and qualities.

Secondly, the text is of moderate length, appropriate for the age group's cognitive level, and meets the time limit for completing the test.

Thirdly, the literary material must ensure the distinctiveness of literature, harmonize truth, goodness, and beauty, be connected to cultural traditions, and have educational value.

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