VietNamNet Bridge – Secondary
school graduates finished the high school entrance exams on June 21-22 already.
However, the students and their parents are still in the state of anxious
suspense. As for many parents, entering state owned schools is the only choice
for their children.
The high school entrance exam is considered the second
toughest and most important exam for students, just to the university entrance
exam. Since the number of state owned schools is limited, students have to
compete with each other to scramble for the seats there. In Hanoi and HCM City,
the existing state owned high schools only can receive 70 percent of secondary
school graduates, while the other 30 percent would have to go to people-founded
schools or continuation schools.
Children take
exams, parents suffer anxiety
That explains why not only students, but their parents
also have to prepare well for the exam.
In Hanoi, nearly 80,000 students attended the exam, but
only 70 percent of them would be enrolled in state owned schools.
The thinking of many parents is that the entrance exam to
high school is an all-out exam. The parents do not want their children to go to
people founded schools, because most of the schools are believed to have bad
schooling environments. Meanwhile, prestigious people founded schools always require
high tuitions which is unaffordable to many families.
Therefore, students need to pass the exam to enter state
owned schools, which do not set overly high tuitions and can provide good
education environment.
Most of students said they have to attend private
tutoring classes to prepare for the entrance exam.
Ha, a parent in Dong Da district, who was seen waiting to
pick up her daughter from the tutoring class at 9.30 pm, said that this was the
third learning shift of the girl of the day.
“She went to an English class in the morning, then to
literature class in the afternoon, and now at a math lesson,” she said.
“My daughter now has to prepare thoroughly for the exam.
If you do not go to private tutoring class, you would have no opportunity to
pass the exam, especially the exam to high school for the gifted,” Ha said.
She went on to say that she has put off everything to
spend time to bring the daughter to classes and pick her up from school.
“The most important thing for us now is education of the
daughter, not the business,” she explained.
Meanwhile, the parents from well off families from other
provinces have also brought their children to the exam preparation centers in
Hanoi, believing that the centers in big cities would be more helpful than in
rural areas.
The Doan Ket High School in Hai Ba Trung district plans
to enroll 800 students who registered to study at the school as their first
choice. Tran Hung Dao School would receive 900 students as their first choice
and 2800 students as their second choice (The students, who do not obtain
enough exam marks to enter some high schools, would be able to register to
study at other schools, if they can satisfy the requirements of the other
schools).
In principle, the students, who want to study at a school
at their second choice, would have the exam marks higher by 1.5 marks at least
than the school’s required marks, to be eligible for studying at the school.
Therefore, a lot of parents decided to choose the “safe option”, i.e. that they
register to attend the exams to medium-class schools, which do not require
overly high exam results.
Source: KT&DT
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