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Many students at the bottom of English still get 10 points to graduate from high school thanks to 4.0 IELTS

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Rush to take foreign language certificate exam

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Loan (17 years old, Tran Hung Dao High School, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi ) happily showed her mother her achievement of passing the IELTS exam with a score of 4.0. With this score, Loan will definitely be converted into 10 points in English in this year's high school graduation exam.

According to the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training , from 2016 to present, candidates possessing international foreign language certificates IELTS 4.0, TOEFL ITP 450 points, TOEFL iBT 45 points or higher will be converted to equivalent to 10 points when considering high school graduation (candidates are exempted from the English exam).

Many students at the bottom of the English test still achieved 10 points in high school graduation thanks to 4.0 IELTS - 1

Converting foreign languages in high school graduation exams 2023.

Loan admitted that her English proficiency in high school was not very high, with an average score of only 6 - 6.5 points in grades 10, 11, and 12. Most of the English knowledge at school focused on grammar and vocabulary. Although her family invested in many English review classes, her level did not improve much.

Since the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year, Loan has taken two mock high school graduation exams at school, with an English score of 4-5 points. This score is impossible to graduate from high school and apply to universities because it is too low.

After consulting many times with teachers and seniors, in January 2023, Loan decided to ask her parents to let her take extra English classes at a foreign language center. The IELTS course takes place in 3 months, 4 sessions/week, costs more than 10 million VND/course and is guaranteed to achieve 4.0 - 5.0 IELTS.

When I first started to get used to the rhythm, I was quite scared because the knowledge was different from what I learned in class, I had to get used to it from the beginning a, b, c. Gradually getting used to the learning method that focused on communication, vocabulary, my level gradually improved under the close guidance of the teachers at the foreign language center. As expected, Loan achieved 4.0 IELTS, enough points to convert to high school graduation this year according to the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training.

"From now until the high school graduation exam, I will continue to study to improve my IELTS score from 4.0 to 6.0. Although it is expensive, my parents are willing to invest the money, because this is also a golden ticket to help me get into university more easily," the female student said.

To ensure that her child can easily graduate from high school and be admitted to university, since grade 11, Ms. Tran Nguyen Lam (40 years old, Doan Hung, Phu Tho ) registered her child to study at a foreign language center with the goal of obtaining an IELTS certificate.

In the past two years, Ms. Lam has invested in 3 courses for her child (each course lasts 4 months, costs 5 - 30 million VND), depending on the registered IELTS score target. According to word of mouth from parents in the class, for the first time, she registered her child for an IELTS class to achieve 4.0. Starting from this class, her child will get acquainted with the center, easily achieving the desired score. This is also the score converted to 10 English points when taking the high school graduation exam.

Next, Ms. Lam registered her child for an advanced IELTS class, with the goal of 6.0, then 7.0, to help her child gain an advantage when applying to university. Most schools currently offer a conversion score of 6.0 - 7.0 IELTS, equivalent to 8 - 9 foreign language points when considering admission to the regular system.

"Thanks to this right decision, my son is not too stressed about studying for the high school graduation exam and applying for university, because he is already sure of getting into a certain school thanks to the IELTS certificate," the female parent said. She also shared this experience with many parents in her son's class, most of whom are trying to send their children to study at a foreign language center to complete the goal of graduating from high school and entering university more easily.

4.0 IELTS - equivalent to 5th grade student

Ms. Le Hoang Nga, My Duc High School (Hanoi) expressed that the trend of high school students flocking to study foreign languages is becoming more and more popular, even in rural areas, it accounts for a significant proportion. Her class currently has 15/45 students with IELTS certificates of 4.0 or higher. They stop this IELTS score to convert into 10 high school graduation points, and the actual exam score will be used to consider admission to universities according to their wishes.

Many students at the bottom of the English test still get 10 points to graduate from high school thanks to 4.0 IELTS - 2

Candidates taking the high school graduation exam.

However, the worrying thing is that students with IELTS 6.0 - 6.5 level are not necessarily as good at English in class as good students. For example, in the first semester and second mid-term tests, students only got 7 points, and some students with IELTS 4.0 only got 5 points. Meanwhile, good students in the class who did not study at a foreign language center easily got 8 - 9 points in English. Through research, students all said that English in textbooks has more grammar and vocabulary than when studying IELTS.

"Therefore, keeping the conversion level of IELTS 4.0 equivalent to 10 English points is unreasonable, too low compared to the standard. Students only need to register for 3 months of review classes to easily achieve IELTS 4.0, but if studying in class, according to textbooks, it will take 3 years and still not be able to achieve 10 points in English for the high school graduation exam," said Ms. Nga.

According to Dr. Hoang Minh Hiep, Hanoi University, IELTS 4.0 is the lowest level, only used to evaluate primary and secondary school students. The IELTS 4.0 test requires candidates to have the most basic reading, listening, writing and speaking skills, and does not require critical thinking, analysis or synthesis of information. " My son is in grade 5 this year, and his IELTS score can easily reach 4.5," he said.

With many years of experience in IELTS test preparation, Mr. Hiep explained that to achieve IELTS 4.0, students only need to participate in 3-4 months of review to achieve this score. However, to improve from 4.0 to 6.0 requires great effort and a lot of time investment, similarly, to improve from 6.0 to 7.0, from 7.0 to 8.0, the difficulty level increases, it is very difficult to achieve.

"That is also the reason why universities currently consider international English certificates of at least 5.5 - 6.0 IELTS, equivalent to 7 points or more," this PhD shared.

Recommendations for improving IELTS score

The 2022 high school graduation exam had more than 1 million students participating, but only 425 exams scored 10 points in English (about 2.34% of the total number of candidates). The average score was 5.15 points; the median was 4.8 points; the score with the most candidates was 3.8 points. Nationwide, 423 candidates failed and the number of students with scores below average was 446,648 (accounting for 51.56%)... Thus, the high school graduation English exam is not easy, it is very rare for candidates to score 10 points.

According to Dr. Hoang Minh Hiep, in 2015 - 2016, when the Ministry of Education and Training issued regulations that IELTS and TOEFL scores were equivalent to 10 points in the high school graduation exam, international language certificates were still rare and few candidates and parents were interested in them. However, today this certificate is popular, almost all students know about it and possess it. Therefore, to ensure fairness in exams, the Ministry of Education and Training needs to raise the TOEFL and IELTS conversion score in high school graduation exams from 4.0 to 5.0 or 6.0.

"Converting uniformly to IELTS 4.0 or equivalent to a score of 10 is easy and unfair to all candidates, including those who already have the certificate," said the expert.

Agreeing with the above opinion, Ms. Le Hoang Nga also hopes that the Ministry of Education and Training will increase the conversion score of international English certificates, similar to the current conversion of universities. The lowest IELTS score is from 5.0 and above, equivalent to 7 points in English. The score level gradually increases from 5.0 - 8.5 IELTS equivalent to 7 - 10 points in English.

On April 18, a representative of the Department of Quality Management, Ministry of Education and Training, said that the Ministry is accepting opinions and recommendations on raising the conversion score from international language certificates IELTS, TOEFL to English scores for high school graduation. The Ministry will study the above recommendations.



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