National High School Exam Strategy

Literature : First of all, write correctly.

According to Mr. Nguyen Duc Hung (Vinh Vien Exam Preparation Center, Ho Chi Minh City), when doing a social argumentative essay, avoid explaining incorrectly because when you explain incorrectly, all arguments or descriptions that follow will go in the wrong direction. For a social argumentative essay, the most important thing is to perform the correct steps and operations. First of all, explain the problem (or concept), then analyze, expand, improve, and relate to reality. In addition to arguments, there must be good, appropriate evidence. In addition, from personal perception and experience, candidates must also express their own opinions.

For literary essays, for prose questions, determine what the topic is asking about and focus on answering that specific question. For poetry questions, it is necessary to pay attention to analyzing artistic elements such as the use of language, images, rhythm, form... and point out the value and meaning of the artistic form in conveying the content. The essays that get high scores in this question are those with a good knowledge of literature, good writing skills and a general and synthetic thinking about the problem. In addition, candidates also need to have feelings about the beauty in literature.

The first thing is that you need to have a well-written essay. However, to get a high score, you need to write well. In general, a good essay needs to ensure three aspects: knowledge, perception and thinking.

Math: Don't be discouraged by difficult questions, don't be subjective about easy questions

Mr. Tran Van Toan (Head of the Math Group at Marie Curie High School, Ho Chi Minh City) advised that when doing the test, candidates need to present their solutions with enough ideas, clearly and with tight arguments. Candidates often have the mentality of being afraid of running out of time, so they do it quickly, leading to careless presentation and errors. Do not skip the intermediate steps when calculating, because there are two advantages: Avoid wrong answers and when checking, it is easy to detect possible mistakes and omissions. Do not lose points on easy questions. Groups of easy and familiar questions should be done directly on the test paper and must be calculated carefully, reasoning accurately in each step of the solution. Check the results right during the test. If you lose only 0.25 points in this group of questions, the competition for university entrance will become much fiercer. On the contrary, if you lose 0.25 points for difficult questions, there is still a lot of hope for university entrance. Many students have the habit of doing rough drafts until they get the answer and then write it down on their test paper.

This certainly cannot meet the time limit. The scratch paper is only for finding solutions to unsolved questions. To achieve an above average score in math is not difficult, you just need to have a firm grasp of the basic knowledge, do it well, and avoid erasing too many lines in the test. For candidates with good or excellent academic ability, you must make full use of the 180 minutes to do the test, not be discouraged by difficult questions and not be subjective with easy questions, review right away during the test, consider the changes and arguments.

English: Never leave the writing section blank.

The English exam has an additional writing section including sentence structure conversion and paragraph writing. According to teacher Pham Hung (Marie Curie High School, Ho Chi Minh City), to do well on the test, first with the multiple choice section, candidates need to pay attention to knowledge about stress and pronunciation with about 6 sentences (1 point). The vocabulary section focuses on word families (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs), synonyms, antonyms, and the same type of word. In addition, all grammar points learned such as: tense division, subject-verb agreement, passive voice, conditional sentences, direct, indirect, relative clauses, etc. And some sentence structures such as adverb clauses of cause changing to adverb clauses of result, from clauses changing to phrases or vice versa.

For the writing section, vocabulary and grammar structures are two essential elements for writing skills. The advice for this section is not to be greedy and write too much but not too little. For example, if the question requires writing a 140-word paragraph, you should write 12 to 16 lines (when grading, teachers often estimate the number of lines, not counting each word to get the right number). In order to get the first point, a paragraph must have a topic sentence and a conclusion. This paragraph writing part is the part that "save" the candidate. The issue of getting more or less points depends on the writing skill, absolutely do not leave any blanks.

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