It's difficult to get a perfect score in history.

On December 29, the Ministry of Education and Training announced sample exam questions for the high school graduation exam starting in 2025, including the history subject.

New features in the exam structure.

The sample history exam is divided into two parts:

Part I consists of multiple-choice questions, with 24 questions focusing on knowledge and comprehension; there are no application-based questions. This type of question is very familiar to students from periodic tests in junior and senior high schools and from high school graduation exams over the years.

Part II consists of four true/false application questions. Each question has four options, and candidates choose true or false. This is a new format used in the high school graduation exam from 2025, but it has long been applied in periodic tests (written tests) at the junior and senior high school levels.

Many history teachers believe that the new feature of the sample history exam is Part II, which includes true/false questions.

To choose the correct/incorrect answer, candidates need a sufficiently large and comprehensive knowledge of history. Therefore, students must actively read books and documents, and possess critical thinking skills (reading comprehension), applying their knowledge and understanding of the essence of events to determine the correct answer. There is no room for rote learning, memorization, or choosing based on luck, guesswork, or tricks.

For example, in Part II, question 2 - c) The Lam Son Uprising can only be restored through the Proclamation of Victory over the Wu . If students do not fully understand the Lam Son Uprising (1418-1427) and the significance of the Proclamation of Victory over the Wu , they will choose the correct answer - that is, the wrong answer.

True/false questions are suitable for developing students' competencies and qualities in the 2018 General Education Program. Therefore, teachers need to adopt teaching methods that align with the new exam format to actively promote students' problem-solving abilities, especially their specific competencies (professional skills).

With the sample exam for the high school graduation exam in history, candidates need comprehensive abilities, knowledge, and skills to achieve a high score.

Getting a perfect score of 10 isn't easy.

In Part II, it is unreasonable for candidates to only receive 0.1 point for correctly selecting one option in a question (each question has four options).

Therefore, some history teachers have suggested that if a candidate correctly chooses one option in a question, they should be awarded 0.25 points to ensure fairness. Thus, a candidate who correctly chooses four options in a question would receive 1.0 point.

Overall, the structure of the sample high school graduation exam in history facilitates competency-based admissions, aligns with students' career orientations, and is consistent with the 2018 General Education Program.

However, candidates must possess comprehensive abilities, knowledge, and skills to achieve the maximum score; in other words, it is difficult to get a perfect 10 in history.

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