On the morning of June 10, the Hanoi public 6th grade entrance exam opened with the subject of Literature. This is the main exam subject and makes many students feel pressured.
The structure of the Literature exam in Hanoi consists of two parts. In particular, part I includes reading and understanding text in textbooks and creating a literary argumentative paragraph (discourse on poetry and essay on stories). This section accounts for about 2-60% of the score.
The long-awaited Literature exam will have many unexpected details from the exam (photo Trinh Phuc).
According to the teachers, this is an exam that requires students to master the knowledge they have learned and the skills to create an argumentative paragraph about poetry and an argument about a story that they have been practicing every day.
In addition, skills in reading comprehension and answering the author's reading comprehension questions, compositional circumstances, meaning of title, story situation, narrator, character, emotional circuit of the poem, rhetorical measures, artistic details, etc.
Part II accounts for 30-40% of the required points for reading non-textbook texts and creating a social argumentative paragraph.
This is the part that requires students to have good reading comprehension skills because with a text that students have never approached before, in addition to reading comprehension questions about the text's expression, topics, sentence connections, explanation of details, etc., it is required to write a social argumentative paragraph (ethical ideas or life phenomena), in the form of direct or indirect topics (opinions, statements, statements...).
The following are the questions for the Literature exam in 2022 and 2021:
