VietNamNet Bridge – It’s impossible to find the answer to the
question when considering the results of the two latest important national
exams--the high school final exams and university entrance exams.
The Ministry of Education and
Training in early August was glad to inform that more than 90 percent of
Vietnamese students have passed the finals. Even remote or mountainous areas
have also reported the high percentages of students passing the exams.
The figures obviously show that
Vietnamese students have good learning ability.
However, the same conclusion
would not be made if reviewing the university entrance exams. Thousands of
university entrance exam papers were given zero mark just for history exam
alone. Especially, the public has been stunned by the information that the students,
who got high marks from the high school finals, received five marks only for
three university entrance exam subjects.
Universities have also reported
that thousands of zero marks have been given to the examinees, who showed that
they even did not have basic knowledge about the subjects.
Who to believe?
The Ministry of Education and
Training many times affirmed before the exams took place that the questions
would not be too difficult. In other words, the students, who finish the high
school curriculum, would never get zero or one marks.
However, more than 1000 examinees
out of the 2600 examinees to the Vinh City University of Technique Education
got zero or one for mathematics. The number of students getting zero or one
mark from the history exams to the Hanoi University of Education reportedly
accounted for ¼ of the total examinees.
800 students attending the exams
to the school got either zero or one, while 180 got zero. Meanwhile, nearly
1800 students got three or lower marks for history.
The Hanoi University for Social
Sciences and Humanity has reported that 600 students got zero or one for
history out of the 3900 examinees.
200 out of the 1000 examinees,
who attended the exams to the Nam Dinh-based University of Technique Education,
got 10 marks or higher for three subjects. Meanwhile, Nam Dinh always tops the
list of the provinces with high percentages of students passing final exams.
Professor Do Thanh Binh from the
History Faculty of the Hanoi University Education said that the exam questions
had different difficulty levels.
He believes that with the 2012’s
history exam questions, the students with just basic knowledge, not excellent
ones, should get at least five marks. Meanwhile, those who got one or two might
even did not have basic knowledge.
Meanwhile, Dang Quang Minh, a
lecturer of the same school, has affirmed that the 2012 history exam questions
were the easiest in the last five years
As for mathematics, teachers
believe that the students with average level would be able to solve at least
two questions. They said that if students got zero or one mark for mathematics,
they could not have passed the high school finals.
In Vietnam, the national
university entrance exam is considered the most serious exam which can truly
reflect the actual ability of students. Meanwhile, problems have been existing
in many other exams, especially the finals. The strict regulations that need to
be applied for exams have not been respected at the finals, thus allowing
students to cheat at the exams, and leading to unreliable results about
students’ ability.
Professor Van Nhu Cuong, a
well-known educator, has commented that the zero marks show the big gaps in the
students’ knowledge.
Cuong believes that it would be
better to remove the high school final exam, if the exam cannot truly reflect
the real ability of students, while it is always very costly to organize the
exams.
Compiled by Thu Uyen
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