Grade 10 Exam: How is the Ho Chi Minh City Literature exam this year different from previous years?

How are the 10th grade literature exam questions different from previous years and this year? Thanh Nien Newspaper provides the literature exam questions of Ho Chi Minh City in the last 3 years and the reference exam questions for 2025 announced by the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training so that readers can see the differences between the years.

Grade 9 students of Van Don Secondary School (District 4, Ho Chi Minh City) review near the 10th grade exam date.

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This year's 10th grade exam in Ho Chi Minh City took place on June 6-7, the first exam to follow the 2018 GeneralEducation Program with many changes in structure and requirements for exam questions. In particular, the biggest change is in literature compared to the exam structure of many previous years.

The literature exam for the 10th grade exam from 2024 onwards usually has 3 parts: Reading comprehension, social commentary, and literary commentary. According to the announcement of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, this year's literature exam includes: Part 1 - Reading comprehension of literary texts and writing paragraphs; Part 2 - Reading comprehension of argumentative or informational texts and writing social commentary essays. Both parts have the same score scale.

Thanh Nien Newspaper has compiled 10th grade literature exam questions from the last 3 years for parents and students to refer to and compare.

Literature exam questions for grade 10 in Ho Chi Minh City in 2022

Literature exam questions for grade 10 in Ho Chi Minh City in 2023

Literature exam questions for grade 10 in Ho Chi Minh City in 2024

Reference questions for literature exam for class 2025 of Ho Chi Minh City

Requirements for the 10th grade literature exam in 2025

Regarding the 2025 grade 10 literature exam, the leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training announced the scope and specific assessment orientation as follows:

Reading comprehension

Source: non-textbook materials. Text type: literary text and one of two types: argumentative text or informational text. Length: Total length of the materials in the test is not more than 1,300 words.

Write

Write a paragraph (about 200 words). One of two requirements must be met: Write a paragraph recording your feelings about a poem or a poem; Write a paragraph analyzing the content, the unique features of the work's artistic form and its aesthetic effect.

Write an essay. One of two requirements to meet: Write an argumentative essay about a problem in life, clearly presenting the problem and the writer's opinion (agreeing or disagreeing) about that problem; presenting convincing arguments and evidence; Write an argumentative essay about a problem that needs to be solved; present a feasible and convincing solution.

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