Important note before the 10th grade entrance exam

According to the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, the department has prepared 150 test points, including 139 normal test points and 11 specialized test points with 3,953 exam rooms; Each point has 3 extra exam rooms. The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training also mobilized 11,859 teachers to monitor the exam and 1,800 employees, security guards, police officers, etc. to do their duty at the test sites.

Associated with current topics

Mr. Tran Tien Thanh – philology specialist, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training – said that this year, the structure of literature exam questions in the 10th grade entrance exam did not change compared to previous years. Specifically, the exam structure has 3 parts: reading comprehension (3 points), social argument (3 points) and literary argument (4 points). The duration of this exercise is 120 minutes.

In order to achieve high marks in linguistics, according to Mr. Thanh, candidates should note: In reading comprehension sentences, it is necessary to practice reading comprehension skills by choosing informational, argumentative, scientific texts… age appropriate content, associated with the current situation. In addition, candidates need to practice reading comprehension skills: recognizing the content of the topic, decoding difficult words, metaphorical images, finding Vietnamese problems in the text; collection of text summaries, linking the text you are reading with other related texts, connecting with real life…

Candidates taking the entrance exam to the 10th grade in 2020. Photo: TAN THANH

The answer for the reading comprehension section should be short, clear, correct, and avoid lengthy and rambling. In a social essay, the structure of the essay must be ensured: There are enough openings, body, and conclusion. The opening of the article states the problem, the body of the article deploys the problem, and the conclusion concludes the problem.

Mr. Thanh noted that in the process of doing the test, candidates need to analyze and determine the correct problem of the thesis; deploy the proposed problem into arguments; make good use of reasoning operations; closely combine arguments and evidence; Lessons learned from perception and action. Candidates need to practice reasoning operations, especially reasoning, explaining, proving and commenting. Candidates should avoid errors such as lack of argument manipulation; Using reasoning operations is not effective.

In the literary essay, candidates need to ensure the structure of the lesson; it is necessary to correctly identify the issues to be discussed; deploy the proposed problem into arguments; show deep perception and good use of reasoning operations, especially analytical reasoning; close combination of argument and evidence.

Mr. Thanh also pointed out the limitations of many candidates in this sentence: Often replay the work; the work lacks emotion due to little reading, little thinking, maybe also rote learning; The part connecting the work with real life is not close, still forced.

5 minutes to read very important topic

Teacher Pham Minh Khang – 9th grade math teacher, Tran Dai Nghia High School for the Gifted (District 1) – thinks that with math, candidates need to be very careful to do the test carefully, because it only takes 0.25 points will also be lost. According to Mr. Khang, many children in the process of studying very well, but when taking the test, they are often confused. Each subject has 5 minutes to read the exam questions. This is a very important time. In these 5 minutes, if you find a question easy, mark it first to get points.

For real math and classification questions, if it takes 15-20 minutes but candidates still can’t think of it, they should move on to another question. In the basic math question, with lesson 1, which is drawing graphs, students often make mistakes such as making mistakes on the table of values, dividing units, number lines… – these are very small errors, but if they are wrong, the lesson will follow. damage and lose points. In lesson 2 is the application of Viet’s theorem, some children often do it together without explaining. In this case, if it’s true, it’s okay, and if it’s wrong, you lose points for the explanation.

“So, you should do it step by step. Good students also do it step by step to practice thinking and mental calculation. In the geometry lesson, they need to distinguish between hypotheses and inferreds from assumptions. In the part hey, you guys often get the wrong idea. If it’s wrong, you lose 0.25 points in that idea, making a huge difference because of its high competitiveness,” commented Mr. Khang.

Meanwhile, in English, Mr. Tran Nguyen Hanh, Leader of the English Team of Ly Thanh Tong Secondary School (District 8), noted: Candidates need to divide the time before the exam reasonably, review The important content such as theory to do sentences about pronunciation and stress. Pay attention to vocabulary and 10 unit words of 9th grade English textbooks; how to determine the correct word type when doing word form; how to do word filling and reading comprehension passages; grammatical structures included in the program; Types of sample questions the teacher has reviewed and advanced forms to expand knowledge.

Mr. Hanh reminds candidates that they need to allocate time to do the test and check the lesson appropriately. Multiple-choice questions need to be read carefully, trying to understand the questions and answers, recalling the knowledge learned to choose the best answer.