Due to the high classification of the 2025 high school graduation exam this year, many readers believe that the high school graduation exam model is creating too much pressure and suggest a clear separation between the graduation and university admission goals.
Tien Phong reporter interviewededucation researcher Nguyen Quoc Vuong to better understand this issue.
Keep or drop the '2 in 1' exam
With the current way of studying and taking exams, many people believe that next year students will still flock to extra classes. What is your opinion on this issue?
In my opinion, extra classes are a need, extra teaching is also a need. It cannot be banned. Regarding extra teaching, my opinion is that it is enough to ban teachers on the payroll or with long-term contracts who are teaching at public schools from giving extra teaching in any form.
Teachers recruited in this form will have a stable salary (the highest level in the civil servant system), social insurance and other relatively good benefits.
Furthermore, they need to focus on their work as educators instead of just imparting pure knowledge. These teachers will often also be homeroom teachers and other educational work in the school including leadership positions, organizations... so focusing on expertise and work at school is necessary. Freelance teachers, short-term teachers, private school teachers can teach extra or not depends on the contract signed with the place they work.
Many people think that the high school graduation exam model is creating too much pressure and suggest a clear separation between graduation and university admission goals. What is your opinion on this issue?
Having expressed my opinion many times, I have proposed to abolish the high school graduation exam because it is no longer necessary. The university entrance exam is separate and managed by the schools. Schools can recruit students through many different methods, from reviewing academic records to taking exams.
Education researcher and translator Nguyen Quoc Vuong was born in 1982 in Bac Giang . He has translated and written nearly 100 books on education, history, and culture. Having studied for a master's degree in Japan and been a lecturer at Hanoi Pedagogical University, Nguyen Quoc Vuong currently chooses to write and translate books and focuses on reading promotion activities.
Regarding the difficulty and ease of the 2025 high school graduation exam, it is natural that it is difficult because it is both a graduation exam and a university entrance exam. When there is a conflict in standards like this, it will cause suffering for everyone from the test makers, examiners, teachers, students, and universities. If it is easy, the standard score will be high, making it difficult to choose. If it is difficult, it will affect students taking the graduation exam on a large scale. Determining the "assumed subjects" to create the exam is therefore very difficult because in our country there is a big difference between rural and urban areas, between the lowlands and the plains.
To solve the problem once and for all, the only way is to abolish the graduation exam and transfer the right to consider graduation to high school principals based on the students’ high school studies and training. Anyone who completes 12 years of study will graduate. That is normal, nothing terrible.
Need to clarify educational philosophy in accordance with universal values of the world
How do you see the consequences when students have to take extra classes just to pass exams?
In my opinion, when we eliminate graduation exams and consider graduation, there will only be students taking university entrance exams and taking extra classes based on the needs of their families and the students themselves. Schools will teach according to the needs and abilities of students, which means teaching in a "personalized" way instead of setting a target in advance (how many % are good, how many % are average, how many % are graduates) for schools and teachers and then making them try their best to get that number, which means creating achievementism and virtual numbers.
Studying just for exams leads to a reduction in educational content for both teachers and students (study what is tested, don't study what is not tested).
More dangerously, when teaching for exams, people will focus on knowledge, problems that will be tested, and test-taking techniques instead of training students' thinking and ability to detect problems, pose problems, and reflect on problems.
In the long run, studying for exams leads to individuals who are intelligent but unable to create or invent and have poor civic attitudes because they are indifferent to social issues.
The view that Vietnam has no educational philosophy is controversial. What do you think about this?
Educational philosophy will be a recurring story because the goal of educational philosophy will determine the method of examination. It guides learning, examinations, and even the attitudes of parents, teachers, and students towards learning. It is necessary to clarify the educational philosophy in accordance with the universal values of the world and unify it so that everyone can understand and aim for it. Each school, based on that common philosophy, can build its own philosophy suitable to its own conditions.
Thank you!
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