After completing the grading process, the 10th grade exam council in Ho Chi Minh City is urgently carrying out the final technical procedures to announce the results for more than 151,000 candidates by mid-June.
The grading committee is currently focusing on finalizing the last steps, including reviewing, scoring, comparing, and verifying the data. This process is expected to take 1-2 days and will last until June 14th, therefore the 10th grade exam scores for Ho Chi Minh City students will be officially announced around June 15th or shortly thereafter.
After the exam results are released, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training will announce the cutoff scores for specialized and integrated 10th-grade classes within 1-2 days so that students can complete the enrollment procedures. The cutoff scores for regular public high schools are expected to be announced 1-2 weeks later.
This year, all 151,000 exam papers were independently graded through two rigorous rounds to ensure maximum accuracy, and many examiners commented that the Math exam had a very high level of difficulty, creating a clear differentiation between groups of students with varying academic abilities.
According to one examiner, the majority of students' math scores ranged from 5 to 7.5 points, while the number of papers scoring 8 points or higher decreased significantly compared to before. Scores of 9 or higher were very rare, and only a few dozen students across the city achieved a perfect score of 10. On the positive side, the percentage of papers scoring below average decreased considerably compared to last year's exam.
"The reason why candidates found it difficult to achieve maximum scores lay in the practical and geometric questions. Specifically, problem number 6, involving a system of equations in a practical format, was considered the most difficult question, challenging candidates. As for problem number 5, on spatial geometry, although not overly tricky, many students lost 0.25 to 0.5 points due to careless mistakes such as forgetting to add the base area of a container or miscalculating the surface area of a sphere instead of just half of it," said an examiner.
In last year's exam, before the merger of the admissions boundaries, Ho Chi Minh City had approximately 76,000 candidates, and there were 36 perfect scores (10/10) in Mathematics. The most common score last year was 7 points, and about 63% of candidates achieved average or above-average scores.
This year's entrance exam also marks a special milestone as it is the first year Ho Chi Minh City has organized the 10th grade entrance exam after merging its enrollment data with Binh Duong and Ba Ria - Vung Tau provinces, pushing the number of candidates to a record high of over 151,000.
Source: https://tienphong.vn/sap-co-diem-thi-lop-10-tai-tphcm-post1851130.tpo
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