The reality of the online exam preparation class for the 2022 National University Ho Chi Minh City Competency Assessment exam

Recently, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City has recorded the number of candidates registered to attend Competency Assessment Exam In 2022, the first phase organized by this school will reach nearly 85,000 children, the highest ever.

Grasping the great interest of candidates for this exam, exam preparation centers and websites have quickly prepared many sets of exam questions and courses for a fee.

Just one click related to the keyword “Competency assessment exam preparation“On the Internet, candidates will easily find millions of results. In which, most of them are information about accelerated test preparation services, selling questions and mock tests to assess the ability to be advertised. Each such exam preparation course has a tuition fee from 1 to nearly 3 million VND, and the cost of materials is from 500,000 VND to 1 million VND, depending on the number of subjects.

For example, the preparation course for the Competence Assessment of the National University of Ho Chi Minh City on the “Hocmai” Education system promises to provide students with lectures from 8 teachers with a tuition fee of 2, 9 million VND/package, the exam preparation package costs 1.9 million VND/course. This system also organizes a quick 90-day exam preparation course for the competency assessment exam of Vietnam National University, Hanoi with the tuition fee of 1.2 million VND.

Meanwhile, the Marathon Eduacatione Center has launched an accelerated program of preparation for the National University of Ho Chi Minh City exam in 2022 with a commitment to refund if it does not reach 800 points. Many attractive advertisements for learners such as “giant question bank”, “effective exam preparation method”, “double chances of getting into university” are placed on the homepage of this unit to attract students. The tuition fee is 1.6 million VND for 13 online sessions (90 minutes/session), you can review the lesson.

On social networking sites, the most popular being Facebook, as soon as the registration period ended for the ability assessment exam of Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, dozens of exam preparation and exam preparation pages provided Competency assessment exam questions were quickly created with attractive names such as “Preparing for the 2022 Competency Assessment Exam, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City”, “Preparing for the Competency Assessment Exam”. 900+”, “Expedited exam preparation for capacity assessment 2022″… These sites all have hundreds of thousands of members.

In addition, many exam preparation sites also organize online mock tests for students who have purchased exam preparation materials, attracting a large number of students to participate. These sites invite students by pre-submitting some free topics and require students to pay for courses to be able to continue studying, with the promise of veteran teachers, experienced teachers. As an experiment, university lecturers who have participated in researching and compiling competency assessment tests since 2014 have directly taught to increase the credibility of students.

Most worryingly, in order to attract students, many exam preparation sites also publish a set of questions that are believed to be the official exam questions of 2019 as an incentive for their courses. According to the exam’s security rules, this is not possible because all exam papers and scratch paper are collected after the candidate completes the test.

Regarding the many invitations to practice exams on social networks, Mr. Nguyen Quoc Chinh, Director of the Center for Testing and Evaluation of Training Quality, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, said that the school does not organize practice test to assess capacity. In each exam period of previous years, no candidate is allowed to take the exam paper out of the examination room. Every year, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City only publishes sample exam questions to assess competency. Therefore, candidates need to refer to official information.

According to Mr. Nguyen Quoc Chinh, the question bank of the competency assessment exam is up to more than tens of thousands of questions, with a wide range of knowledge that no exam preparation center can cover.

Moreover, the competency assessment exam of the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City has a certain difficulty with the goal to find candidates with real ability and study orientation in a right and scientific way, not must learn “parrot”, learn to cram. The way to achieve the best results is that students need to have real ability and focus on studying to improve that ability during the process, not on exam preparation, studying “cabinet” to get high test scores.

“The advice is that candidates do not need to participate in exam preparation courses that are being advertised everywhere, but should practice their own general ability. The test will include 120 multiple-choice questions that ask very general questions about the ability to systematize. , the ability to process data, handle problems … of the candidates, if you want to do well, you must study regularly, master the knowledge of the subjects of the high school program, but you can’t learn the ‘hit the box’ style.” , Mr. Nguyen Quoc Chinh shared.

Mr. Nguyen Quoc Chinh said, what candidates need to do now is that after the registration is confirmed and the exam fee has been paid, they need to immediately log in to the contest account to check the payment confirmation status. payment is successful or not in the payment log entry. In case of wrong name of beneficiary, balance, lack of money or errors in account information, full name, date of birth, hometown, identity card/citizen identification, priority area… , Candidates should soon send an email to the organizer for editing support.

It is expected that from March 19-20, candidates will return to their accounts to print exam papers. Candidates see and print the exam notice to bring to the exam along with the original identity card/citizen identity card/passport. Regarding the desire to apply for admission, candidates need to wait until April 5 to edit, add, change the order, and register their wishes.

Competency assessment exam is one of the admission form Universities account for a high percentage of the total current index, trusted by many universities in Ho Chi Minh City (both member universities and some schools outside the Ho Chi Minh City National University system). used as a basis for selection.

The important nature of the exam leads to an increasing need for students to practice. This year, the number of candidates registered for the first round of the city’s exam reached nearly 85,000 students, a record increase compared to the total number of 5,000 candidates in the first exam held in 2018.

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