VietNamNet Bridge – High school students have finished the high school finals and now prepare for the university entrance exams to be held in early July. It’s now the turn for students to run a race for state owned high schools.

About 71,000 students who have finished secondary education will attend the high school entrance exam on June 18. After the stained exam, about 20,000 students with worse results would not be enrolled in state owned schools, and they would have to go to people founded schools or continuation schools to follow the high education.

The state owned high schools in Hanoi have announced that they would enroll students by considering their achievements. The students’ “achievements” for consideration would be the learning records of the students during the 4 years at secondary schools, and the exam marks students get from the literature and match high school entrance exams, and the bonus marks, if necessary.

It’s very difficult for students to enroll in the “star” schools like Chu Van An, Kim Lien and Thang Long, which are listed among the most wanted schools.

Analysts said students need to get at least 8-8.5 marks from every math or literature exams to be eligible for entering the schools. The maximum mark is 10. This means that the students would fail the exams to the schools even if they make minor mistakes. And the students must obtain the title of “excellent students” during the four years of studying at secondary schools.

In 2012, the Chu Van An High School in Hanoi only accepted the students who got 56 marks in total. Meanwhile, the Kim Lien School required 54 and Thang Long 54.5 marks. With such the high requirements, even the excellent students who got 8 marks from the exams also failed to enter the schools.

While the star schools set very strict requirements to enroll students, other less prestigious schools are believed to meet difficulties in their enrolment plans.

Pham Huu Hoan, a senior official of the Hanoi Education and Training Department, said the department is considering allowing the schools to enroll students who apply for the schools as the third choice. This means that the students, who fail the exams to the schools as their first and second choices, would still be able to register their study at the less prestigious schools.

Hoan said that with the method, some good and excellent students would still have the opportunities to study at state owned schools which require lower tuitions than people founded schools. Besides, this would also help the less prestigious schools improve the quality of the output students.

The 2012-2013 has finished already, but secondary school graduates still go to school everyday to prepare for the high school entrance exams.

Nguyen Thi Tao, Deputy Headmaster of the Trung Hoa Secondary School, said the school is helping students review the lessons for the exams, free of charge.

“I myself learn with the students everyday. Students like going to school because they can receive the support from the teachers,” she said.

Phuong Anh, a student, also said that she feels insecure when staying at home. She’d rather go to school to meet friends and review the lessons methodically with the assistance of the teachers.

She complained that secondary school graduates would not be allowed to enter the high schools in an exceptional way, if they, for some reasons, cannot attend the exams. Therefore, students need to take care for themselves to avoid catching diseases, or they would have to wait until the next year to attend another exam.

Nguyen Thao