This is a correct and accurate direction in the social psychology at this time. Because for many years, every exam season, a tense atmosphere has pervaded from students, parents to teachers. An exam originally aimed at evaluating end-of-grade academic results is gradually becoming a pressure race with too many worries attached.
It is worth mentioning that this pressure comes not only from difficult exam questions or university entrance competition rates, but also from the complexity of the current enrollment system.
A 12th grade student now usually does not only prepare for the high school graduation exam, they also have to compete with a series of exams and different criteria such as competency assessment, transcript review, international foreign language certificates, interviews, score conversion...
Some students are both studying official courses, practicing IELTS, and preparing for their own university entrance exams, while monitoring each round of nguyện vọng registration because they are afraid of changing regulations.
Therefore, if we only talk about reducing pressure by keeping exam questions or exam schedules stable, it is not enough. What needs to be reduced even more is the chaos of the enrollment mechanism.
In fact, the Prime Minister himself has also pointed out inadequacies such as unreasonable point conversion or the situation of over-enrollment in some places. This shows that the problem is no longer only in the graduation exam, but also in the university enrollment "ecosystem".
Another issue is that when the opportunity to enter university is placed heavily on grades and competition is increasingly fierce, the risk of fraud will always exist.
Therefore, the Prime Minister's request to tighten the prevention and combat of fraud using high technology and AI at this time is completely necessary. Because in reality, fraudulent devices are becoming increasingly sophisticated, compact, and more difficult to detect than before.
However, cheating is also a consequence of a too stressful exam environment. When an exam almost determines the future of students, there will always be people trying to overcome barriers at all costs.
Therefore, anti-fraud cannot only rely on device detectors or security forces, but must also be done by a less stressful assessment mechanism.
The Government has set out the "6 clarities" requirement in organizing this exam: clarity of people, clarity of tasks, clarity of responsibilities, clarity of time, clarity of authority and clarity of products.
This is necessary, because the high school graduation exam is no longer a private matter of the Education sector but a common matter of the whole society because it relates to security, technology, data, social psychology and belief in fairness.
But above all, what people want most is that students are increasingly relieved of exam pressure and a roadmap for enrollment reform in a simple and stable direction.
Every exam needs seriousness, fairness and screening. But the ultimate goal of education must still be to help students develop real abilities, confidently step into the future, not just to overcome stressful races to exhaustion.
