Wednesday, January 10, 2007

New info on the university/junior college exams


VietNamNet Bridge - Today, January 9th, the conference on 2007 university/junior college recruitment will be simultaneously held in 4 cities all over the country: Hanoi, Da Nang, HCM City and Can Tho.Representatives from universities, junior colleges and Departments of Education and Training will discuss and agree on the guidelines to carry out the 2007 undergraduate recruitment exams. Below is important information students need to know before taking the exams. Multiple choice testing will be delivered in 90 minutes

In the coming university/junior college entrance exams on July 2007, the Ministry of Education and Training will use multiple-choice testing for all the 4 foreign languages (English, Russian, French and Chinese), biology, physics and chemistry. The time limit for each multiple-choice test will be 90 minutes, half as much as what students will have to do an essay-question test. Students will write their answers on printed answer sheets prepared by the Ministry. Their answer sheets will be graded by specialised grading machines. A printed multiple–choice question sheet will be handed out to each student. Each question will have 4 possible answers marked A, B, C, D, and only one of them will be the correct answer. As for the essay-question tests, they will be designed to test students’ creativity and practice skills. The Ministry has also decided to add different questions for different high school programmes. In both the multiple-choice and essay-question tests, there will be 2 parts. All students will have to do the first part. The second part will be divided into two different sets of questions: one for specialised students at particular departments in high school, and one for general education students. Each kind of student will be allowed to do only one set of questions of the second part. Junior college entrance exams will be delivered on the same daysAll junior college entrance exams will be held on July 15th and 16th instead of being delivered over a several-day period as in previous years. Beside delivering their exams on the same days, junior colleges will also use multiple choice testing for foreign languages, biology, physics and chemistry. The Ministry will design multiple choice tests for the junior college entrance exams. Junior colleges will design essay-question tests themselves. As of 2008, all subjects except literature will be tested on multiple-choice formats. Award-wining students will have to take entrance examsAccording to the new excellent student regulations, students who win prizes at the national excellent high school student competition will have to take the undergraduate entrance exams. If they score above the floor grades, and none of the subjects is 0, they will be prioritised in the admission process. Students who win prizes at international Olympic contests will still be exempted from the entrance exams or awarded extra points. Universities will announce their own requirements for award-winning students. Universities will pay particular attention to students who win prizes for the same subjects they take in the entrance exams, or for the subjects related to their available training programmes.

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