My mother has been a factory worker for 20 years, her only wish being for me to pass the 10th grade entrance exam.

The entrance exam for 10th grade is incredibly stressful, both inside and outside the exam room...

Arriving outside the examination hall gate - where parents are waiting for their children...

This is a heartfelt confession from Minh Trung, a 44-year-old father residing in Binh Chanh District, Ho Chi Minh City, waiting outside the school gate for his daughter's entrance exam for 10th grade. Parking his motorbike near the school fence, Mr. Trung leaned back to relieve his backache. On the motorbike dangled several bottles of water and his daughter's textbooks and study materials.

Mr. Trung's daughter is a student at Phu Loi Secondary School in District 8, but when she took the entrance exam for 10th grade, she took it at Chanh Hung Secondary School, also in District 8. His wife is a worker at PouYuen Vietnam Company in Binh Tan District, and she has to leave for work early in the morning and return home late at night. Mr. Trung is mostly responsible for taking their two children to and from school to help his wife.

Mr. Minh Trung and his daughter

"My son and I left for the exam early this morning. Because the journey is long, about 10 km from Binh Chanh, we had to time our trip carefully to avoid traffic jams and arrive early so that my son would be relaxed," Mr. Trung said.

The girl, who is taking the entrance exam for 10th grade, has listed Vo Van Kiet High School in District 8 as her first choice. According to Mr. Trung, his daughter really likes Tran Khai Nguyen High School in District 5, but she knows that their house is too far away, and it would be difficult for her father, who already works hard, to drive and pick up his children.

"In 9th grade, my son had excellent academic results, ranking second in the school. My wife and I encouraged him to take the entrance exam," Mr. Trung confided. The father said he didn't say it outright for fear of putting pressure on his son, but he always hoped he would be admitted to a public high school, as that would be more suitable within the family's financial means.

While the child is taking the exam inside, the parents outside are anxiously watching the sky, the earth, the clouds, the rain, the sun, day and night...

This year, Ho Chi Minh City has 77,294 places available for 10th grade through the entrance exam at 114 high schools across the city, with 96,334 candidates registering to take the exam. Correspondingly, tens of thousands of families are anxiously awaiting the results...

Wishing the best for my child's future.

Outside the gates of the high school entrance exam center in Ho Chi Minh City, we also encountered many other touching scenes of parents constantly watching towards the school gates.

The joy of a father and daughter after yesterday afternoon's foreign language exam.

Mother and daughter after their foreign language exam yesterday afternoon.

Parents are constantly anxious during the days leading up to their children's 10th-grade exams.

A father named Vu, waiting for his son at the exam site at Chanh Hung Secondary School, said that he is a taxi driver and his wife is a cleaning lady for a hotel. In the days leading up to his son's 10th-grade exams, the whole family felt the tension. "My son doesn't go to bed early. Every day he studies until 12:30 AM. When I come home from work and see him still studying with the lamp on, it breaks my heart. A few days before the exam, I told him to go to bed at 10 PM, wake up early, and take care of his health; studying now wouldn't help him absorb the knowledge anymore," the father recounted.

This morning, Mr. Vu took his son to the exam. He waved, appearing calm: "Go in and do your best, son, stay calm and confident. Now I'm going to work. I'll come pick you up at lunchtime." But in reality, as soon as his son entered the exam room, he found a coffee shop to wait for him, his heart pounding with anxiety.

He said, "If I tell her I'll just sit here and wait, she'll get anxious, feel pressured, and won't be able to concentrate. I have to be strong and be her support. My wife and I are hard-working laborers; we just hope she gets into a public high school so we can provide for her, and she'll have a good environment to strive for…"

The father, Son Lam, sat waiting for his son outside the examination hall.

Sitting quietly outside the exam venue waiting for his son, another father named Son Lam also acted as a lookout for his son and his friends. His son is a student at Phu Loi Secondary School in District 8, and is quite good at math. Throughout the days his son was studying and preparing for the exam, Son Lam only told him, "Stay calm, be confident, try your best, your parents will always be by your side."

Providing quiet and calm support to his children, Mr. Son Lam said that during times of great stress and anxiety for the 10th grade entrance exam, parents need to remain even calmer. He confided: "Parents are like a lifebuoy; they must always be fully inflated and have plenty of air. If the lifebuoy is weak, where will the children cling to when they need it?"

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