This afternoon, students in Ho Chi Minh City taking the 10th grade entrance exam in 2025 completed the English exam. The exam has 40 questions, divided into 5 parts.

Mr. Phung Xuan Cuong, English teacher at Vinh Vien High School, said that this year's English exam for grade 10 in Ho Chi Minh City was relatively more difficult than last year's. In particular, the multiple choice section with many questions in the form of conversations required candidates to understand the context correctly in order to choose the correct answer.

On the other hand, a notable new point is the appearance of an exercise section requiring candidates to complete sentences based on information from a dictionary entry - replacing the phrase order exercise form that existed in previous years.

"This is a highly applied question type, requiring candidates to have the ability to reason and apply language flexibly," said Mr. Cuong.

According to Mr. Cuong, with a clear level of differentiation, this year's score range is predicted to be concentrated at 7 to 8 points.

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Ho Chi Minh City students take 10th grade exam.

Ms. Huynh Thi Thanh Cat, Vinh Vien High School, also said that this year's 10th grade English entrance exam is relatively more difficult than last year, including some changes due to sentence conversion. If in 2024 the exam was to arrange words into a meaningful sentence, and the phrases changed position, then in 2025 this part changed to a different form. Although the information may be sufficient, students with deep understanding and fairly new knowledge may apply the information in the given boxes to fill in.

In addition, in part V - word form, only intermediate students can do it because there are some difficult words. Most candidates can do the remaining parts.

Although HCMC students have an advantage in foreign languages, with this test, most of them will get 7 points. The number of students who get 8 points or more will be small.

Below are candidates' comments on the English test:

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