Sharing at the 2024 Admissions and Career Guidance Consulting Festival held at Hanoi University of Science and Technology on the morning of March 16, a representative of the Ministry of Education and Training affirmed that this year's high school graduation exam has a high differentiation, requiring candidates to contact and reason on practical basis.
The exam does not only stop at testing academic knowledge, but also encourages students to apply it to specific situations in life.
This means that teaching and learning at the high school level needs to emphasize the ability to think, explore, be creative and practice. Students must not only "study with confidence, return home" but also "study to understand, understand to apply".
In addition to the benefits of improving problem-solving skills, this exam also helps university admissions get closer to the selection criteria for candidates with real capacity, meeting the increasing needs of society.
Regarding the story of the exam, recently, at the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Ho Chi Minh City National University, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh raised an extremely important issue: Sometimes we ignore and take the task of developing basic science lightly.
Meanwhile, the majors of Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology... are the indispensable foundation for building a solid high-tech science and technology foundation.
The Prime Minister emphasized that if we do not develop basic science, it will be difficult for us to develop high technology or advanced management science.
This is also a warning about the current situation of Vietnamese students chasing "top-notch" majors such as economics, banking, information technology, ignoring or taking the basic majors lightly.
To change, universities now have a lot of work to do, from training strategies, priority policies, and encouraging students to pursue basic majors. In particular, there are solutions to limit and change the popular way of issuing multiple-choice tests. Experience, with objective advantages and saving time for marking exams, is very useful for large-scale exams, but reveals limitations when assessing basic scientific abilities.
Students taking multiple-choice Math tests may have higher average scores than those in their thesis, but they may only think superficially. Subjects such as Math, Physics, Chemistry, ... require logical reasoning, creativity in methods is also difficult to demonstrate through available answers such as A, B, C, D, ...
Experimentation is not the "enemy" of basic science, but if it only focuses on this method, it will be difficult to arouse the profound thinking from students that basic science requires.
