Proposing to publicize the answers to the exam, winning the national award for excellent students

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Mr. Nguyen Quoc Vuong, a researcher on history education, proposed to publish on the website the first, second, and third prize-winning exams, especially in Literature, History, and Geography each year. .

“Just by publishing the exam questions and papers in the first, second, and third subjects in the national exam, we will know if the exam is selecting gifted students and preparing for the exam. as well as education in general, is doing a good job of “training talent” or not.

Mr. Vuong said that in the past, specifically before the 2000s, he still saw the printed volumes of the students winning the national prizes in Literature and History, but recently, he only saw “selected” essays that had been won by the students. only solution. That is, History is “absent”, and Van does not announce all the solved problems.

“I think it’s because it’s boring and repetitive like a textbook, especially in History and Geography subjects, so people don’t publish it?”

“I am not a teacher of Literature, but looking through the exam questions, I find it strange that in the exam for good students – that is, it is aimed at detecting talents and talents but only has content related to “Vietnamese language”. ” and “comment,” “analyze” a literary work or a text without a single sentence about “composition”? While composing is much more important and also much more interesting. People who have a literary talent for composing or not, even writing a small work can see that.”

‘Difficult to understand’

Mr. Tran Trung Hieu, teacher of Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted (Nghe An), said that the Ministry of Education and Training announced the list of national excellent students in the high school year 2021-2022 without announcing the test scores (only the awards were announced). ) is an easy thing to think about without transparency.

According to Mr. Hieu, the Ministry of Education and Training should immediately overcome this shortcoming by soon concretizing a national general list and sending it to localities. The Ministry of Education and Training should also publicly answer the reason for this.

“In exams, it is normal to pass or fail, depending on the quality of each candidate’s work. Announcement of test scores will help candidates know the content, knowledge of their work is at what level commensurate with the test score.

In the national competition for excellent students, the difference of only 0.25 will determine the quality of the prizes among candidates in the same exam”, said Mr. Hieu.

Mr. Hieu said that, in fact, for many years, the Ministry of Education and Training has advocated not to publish the answers of the social science exams.

“Reading the answers of the exam questions carefully after the marking process, no matter what level it is, is a way to learn test-taking knowledge and skills. The meaning of reading and learning from that graded answer is not only useful for students after the exam, but also professionally for teachers who foster good students,” said Mr. Hieu.

Mr. Hieu said he had sent many petitions to the Minister of Education and Training on this issue.

“I have suggested many times to the leaders of the Ministry of Education and Training that it is advisable to publicly announce on official channels some of the exams of high-achieving candidates. This is a necessary job so that teachers who are teaching and fostering good students can read and learn how to do a quality test and get high scores. But in the end, it’s still there. It is very difficult to understand,” said Mr. Hieu.

This teacher asked: “Is the winning test in the national excellent student exam of the candidates a document in the list of “national secrets”? We hope that the Ministry of Education and Training has a clear and transparent position on this issue. If there are shortcomings, it is necessary to supplement, so that every contest is always fair, fair, transparent and minimizes the cheating factor if there is any in an exam.

Meanwhile, responding to the article ‘Suddenly not announcing the national excellent student exam scores, what does the Ministry of Education and Training say?’, reader Nguyen Minh Tien wrote: ‘We teach the team, but we have never seen the Ministry’s answer’.

This is confirmed by many team teachers. A math teacher in Hanoi said that even five national exam questions for excellent students were withdrawn, and ‘the answers were never published’.

While just a few days ago, China’s IMO Math team selection test was posted and received a lot of attention, many team teachers said they had never seen the TST – the team selection test. IMO of Vietnam.

‘Perhaps only in Vietnam is … hidden’ – a teacher said and cited not only IMO but the national math exams of England, Austria, Russia… all publicly available exam questions, answers, student scores and rankings. Therefore, it is not convincing to believe that not disclosing test scores and candidates’ names is progress.

It is known that this year the results of the foreign language exams are separated. While the test results for excellent students in Mathematics, Literature, History, Geography, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Informatics are left blank in the test scores box, in the results table of Foreign Language subjects there are scores for each skill, but leave blank in total score box.

Van Phong