Mistakes candidates should avoid

MATH: ROUNDING ERROR, SUBJECTIVE

Mr. Duong Buu Loc, a specialist in charge of mathematics at the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, said that in the 10th grade entrance exams, the mistakes students often make often come from subjectivity.

According to Mr. Loc, students often miscalculate simple questions, misunderstand errors, have limited reading comprehension skills in practical problems, only focus on numbers, forget to find keywords of the requirements, draw wrong pictures... In addition, students with good academic performance often make subjective mistakes in cutting corners in problem solving. Therefore, Mr. Loc emphasized that the most important thing when doing math is that students must be careful, meticulous, and be sure of their methods, explanations, and results.

Grade 9 students in Ho Chi Minh City are preparing to take the grade 10 entrance exam early next week.

Teacher Nguyen Tien Thuy, from the math team at Ha Huy Tap Secondary School (Binh Thanh District), said that when grading tests, he noticed that students often lost points in rounding numbers. For example, the test required rounding to the unit, second, and first decimal places, but many students did not round correctly, leading to losing points in the results.

In addition, question number 8 is about plane geometry, including 3 questions, in which question a is basic knowledge, question b is low application, question c is high application. Most students can do question a, the remaining 2 questions are used to differentiate. In addition to mastering knowledge about theorems and properties to prove the problems, Ms. Tien Thuy reminded students to draw the correct figure. If they draw the wrong figure, students will lose 3 points in the plane geometry test.

AVOID THINKING THAT THE LONGER YOU WRITE, THE HIGHER YOUR SCORE WILL BE

Regarding literature, Mr. Tran Tien Thanh, subject specialist of the Department of Education and Training, informed that for many years, students often think that grading the exams of students taking specialized schools and classes will be more difficult than that of regular 10th graders. However, Mr. Thanh affirmed that grading the 10th grade entrance exam is carried out according to the general regulations of the grading council, according to the answers and grading scale that have been agreed upon and approved by the entire council. The examiners will not know whether the exam is of a specialized or regular candidate, so there will be no "more difficult grading".

In addition, for many years, students have always thought that topic 2 in the literature essay section is always more difficult than topic 1, difficult to get points, so they often skip it and actively do not choose to do it. However, this is actually an open topic, creating conditions for students to show their abilities instead of learning by rote. In fact, this topic is very easy to impress the examiner if students have an independent perspective, expressing their personal opinions on a certain issue. Students may not write well but honestly, expressing their thoughts, personal impact... So they have scored points in this part of the essay.

The literature expert also pointed out another mistake students make when writing essays: thinking that the longer they write, the higher their score will be. "This is completely wrong. Candidates who write long but rambling, incomplete, or paraphrasing prose will not only not get high scores but also confuse the examiners when grading the essay," said Mr. Thanh.

Disciplinary levels for violations in the exam room

Reprimand: Candidates commit the mistake of looking at or exchanging papers with other candidates.

Warning: 25% deduction of total exam score: Candidates have been reprimanded once but during the exam continue to violate exam regulations at the reprimand level; exchange test papers or scratch paper with other candidates; copy other candidates' papers or let other candidates copy their papers.

Suspension from the exam: Candidates who have been warned once but continue to violate the exam regulations during the exam at the level of reprimand or warning; bring unauthorized items into the exam room; take the exam out of the exam room or receive answers from outside into the exam room; write or draw on their exam paper content unrelated to the exam; have actions of quarreling, threatening those responsible for the exam or threatening other candidates.

He also noted that "fortune-telling and guessing" is a very harmful viewpoint in the process of students reviewing literature. Many students think that last year the exam was given in this work, but this issue will not be given this year. Meanwhile, the Department of Education and Training has emphasized that the content of the 10th grade entrance exam is within the secondary school curriculum, mainly the 9th grade curriculum, so the exam can be given in any work, in some aspect. The orientation of the literature entrance exam this year will be highly "open". Students need to focus on practicing skills and accumulating knowledge to best fulfill the requirements of the exam.

On the other hand, Mr. Thanh said that students are haunted by the thought that the 10th grade entrance exam must be difficult, "must have many traps", leading to anxiety, stress, pressure, affecting their test results. This is not recommended.

Grade 9 students focus on reviewing for grade 10 entrance exam

ENGLISH : C PAY ATTENTION TO SPELLING FROM THE SMALLEST MISTAKE

Mr. Tran Dinh Nguyen Lu, an English specialist, said that the knowledge in the English exam does not depart from the textbook, the topics and main points are all content that students have been familiar with when studying. The exam will not focus on grammar but will lean more towards skills and vocabulary.

However, students often think that the entrance exam is "very difficult". Therefore, instead of mastering the vocabulary topics in the textbook, they spend a lot of time and effort doing the complex grammar structure sections.

In addition, students often make mistakes when doing essay questions, such as: Word Forms/Sentence transformation. According to the rules, when students make a mistake, even just a small spelling mistake, they will lose all points for that question.

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