Posts Tagged ‘ Exam Questions ’

Students benefit from teachers’ blogs, websites

December 1, 2009
Students benefit from teachers’ blogs, websites

LookAtVietnam – Personal blogs and websites have become effective teaching tools for instructors and also the top choice for students. Teacher Do Cao Long lives in a lonely mountainous district of Thua Thien-Hue province.  Long is quite well-known by students, however, because the young mathematics teacher owns http://caolong.wordpress.com/, which has recorded 350,000 hits over the [...]

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History and geography exams not ready for ‘open’ questions

August 3, 2009
History and geography exams not ready for ‘open’ questions

Literature questions on the last exam have been praised as being ‘open’. People expect to see exam questions of other subjects do the same. However, it remains unclear if geography and history questions are ready to be ‘open’. Le Van Dung, History Teacher of Chu Van An High School in Hanoi, admitted that the current [...]

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Unreasonable structure of exam questions blamed for low marks

July 27, 2009
Unreasonable structure of exam questions blamed for low marks

More than 90 percent of mathematics exam papers at many universities have reportedly got below average marks. University lecturers have blamed the exam question structure. Checkign information about examsBy July 26, 40 universities across the country had reportedly announced exam marks of examinees. Many of them have reported abnormally low marks for A-group mathematics exam [...]

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Exam questions praised for allowing students to show creativeness

July 10, 2009
Exam questions praised for allowing students to show creativeness

Educators and experts have spoken highly of the university entrance exam questions this year, saying that they for the first time enabled students to be creative. Before the university entrance exams began, a representative from the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) told local newspaper Thanh nien that the exam questions were compiled in a [...]

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Shrouded in secrecy

July 9, 2009
Shrouded in secrecy

Students wait to take the mathematics exam at Marie Curie High School in Ho Chi Minh City. Locked away in an undisclosed location for nearly a month, the annual creation of the university exams is a nerve-racking experience for the educators who compose it. One hundred and twenty teachers and professors are gathered inside an [...]

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Universities count their losses

July 7, 2009
Universities count their losses

A lot of universities have reported losses for the recent university entrance exam, but they still don’t know what to do to avoid losses next exam season. The number of ‘virtual examinees’ reportedly accounted for 32 percent of the total examinees this exam season, which means that 308,000 of 930,255 students registered to take university [...]

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Cities get ready for university entrance exams

June 30, 2009
Cities get ready for university entrance exams

Ngo Kim Khoi, Deputy Director of University Education Department under the Ministry of Education and Training, has confirmed that preparations for university entrance exams to be held in early July have been completed. Officers checked the list of examinees in 2008 exam.According to the University Education Department, 64 officers of different teaching subjects have been [...]

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When students act as education consultants

March 30, 2009
When students act as education consultants

VietNamNet Bridge – On March 27, students in HCM City had the chance to become ‘the consultants for short term education development’ at a workshop where they could suggest the measures to develop education and training. Bich Quynh, a student from Tran Dai Nghia Gifted School, said that students have to spend 12 years at [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...