Good at some subjects or all subjects?

Whileeducation authorities believe that not fixing the third subject for grade 10 is a way to prevent students from studying lopsidedly or rotely, many opinions say that this method is unnecessary and that forcing students to be good at everything is unrealistic.

Students must be good at everything?

In recent days, the regulation on the third exam subject for grade 10 according to the draft Regulations on junior high school and high school entrance exams of the Ministry of Education and Training has made many parents worried.

The draft Regulations stipulate the general implementation of 3 exam subjects, including Math, Literature and a third exam subject or a combined exam selected by the Department of Education and Training, higher education institutions with high schools and announced before March 31 every year.

Candidates taking the entrance exam to grade 10 of public high schools in Hanoi for the 2024-2025 school year.

The third subject is selected from among the subjects that are assessed by scores in the general education program at the secondary level. The Ministry of Education and Training said that the selection of the third subject has changed over the years to achieve the goal of comprehensive education in the basic education stage. This regulation is considered a way to guide students not to study lopsidedly or to memorize.

However, on the students' side, parents believe that not fixing the third exam subject for grade 10 makes schools and students passive, increasing the pressure to study many subjects.

Many people think that students will have to be good at all subjects, which is unrealistic. On some social networking forums about education, thousands of parents have participated in giving their opinions on the draft regulations and expressing their views on lopsided learning.

In particular, many parents also offer solutions to prevent lopsided learning that do not rely solely on the three exam subjects.

A parent named Huong Pham said: “In order for children to get good results in 3 subjects, many schools skip the remaining subjects. This is where lopsided learning comes from. The Ministry of Education and Training should come up with a solution to avoid lopsided learning and teaching, instead of using the 10th grade entrance exam subject to adjust children's learning.”

According to parent Hoa An: "My child likes to learn and remembers any subject that the teacher teaches well and is interesting, even if it is not an exam subject. So the problem that needs to be solved is to improve the quality of teaching."

Knowing everything will be an advantage.

According to Deputy Minister of Education and Training Pham Ngoc Thuong, if the exam is held in 3 fixed subjects like before, if there are schools that manage well, students will not study lopsidedly, but most of the students' mentality will lead to "studying as the exam is". The consequence is that there will be schools, even many schools, from the beginning of the school year, that will only teach and focus on 3 exam subjects, however, other subjects require a lot of knowledge, so this needs to be strictly managed.

According to Deputy Minister Pham Ngoc Thuong, the Ministry has conducted inspections and management of teaching and learning and found that through practical inspections, there are the above-mentioned phenomena, so it is necessary to rectify both the teaching and learning process and scores. Qualities and abilities must come from all subjects, not just from Math, Vietnamese and Foreign Languages.

Dr. Nguyen Tung Lam - Vice President of the Vietnam Association of Educational Psychology , President of the Education Council of Dinh Tien Hoang High School (Hanoi) said that the third subject in grade 10 should not be changed every year. This will create an unstable mentality, waiting, and increase pressure for students.

Instead, Dr. Nguyen Tung Lam proposed that the third subject should be fixed as a subject that combines basic knowledge of natural and social subjects in the form of multiple choice tests. This will ensure that students grasp knowledge of all subjects. This way of learning will help students fully equip themselves with the basic knowledge and skills required in secondary school.

In an interview with a reporter from Dai Doan Ket Newspaper, Dr. Nguyen Tung Lam expressed his disagreement with the opinion that, with the Ministry of Education and Training's proposed 10th grade entrance exam plan, students will have to be good at all subjects.

According to Dr. Nguyen Tung Lam, for a long time, both teachers and students have maintained the habit of only teaching and learning when there are exams, and ignoring other subjects. This teaching and learning method is outdated. Students do not study, and teachers do not have a method to attract students to study that subject.

“I think parents should not worry about students having to study many subjects, but should motivate them to study. Knowing all the knowledge will be an advantage later when children grow up and develop themselves,” said Dr. Nguyen Tung Lam.

Source: https://daidoanket.vn/thi-vao-lop-10-gioi-vai-mon-hay-tat-ca-cac-mon-10293990.html