VietNamNet Bridge - Parents complain that exams at the end of the academic year are too stressful for their children.

“My daughter has nine exam subjects and has to solve more than 10 questions for each subject. Biology is the worst with 16 questions. The answers to the questions must be written down on about 10 pages,” Hoang Thai Ha, a parent in Cau Giay district, Hanoi, complained.

Hoang Bich, a parent in Van Dien residential quarter in Hanoi, said her daughter, a seventh grader, is taking a test and parents have been busy for the last three weeks to help the daughter to prepare for the tests.

Bich daughter goes to school in the morning and goes to extra classes in the afternoon. Therefore, she has to spend the evening to prepare for the tests. 

Parents complain that exams at the end of the academic year are too stressful for their children.

“She has to stay late until midnight to answer the questions given by the teacher and then learn the answers by heart. Sometimes I saw her oversleeping because she was too tired,” Bich said.

Khanh A, a student of the Van Dien Secondary School, when asked if he has to learn hard to prepare for the exams, said: “I only have five hours a day to sleep.”

A secondary school teacher in Hanoi said she knows her students have to study very hard these days to prepare for the exams, but she has no other choice than giving a lot of questions to students to solve.

“I myself feel hard pressure. My students need to gain high exam results, or I will face criticism,” she said.

The teacher complained that teachers have to work under too much pressure.

“If there are few excellent students in your class, you will be blamed,” she explained. “Student achievements depend on many factors, rather than teachers."

She has a daughter who has to spend all of her time on studying and has no time to play or do housework.

The 12th graders of the Phan Chu Trinh High School in Dak Lak province have to begin preparing for the high school finals when the 2015-2016 academic year began. 

Its 400 12th graders have to take a mock exam every month. 

A teacher at the school said the mock exams would help students become familiar with exam questions, so that they can prepare better for the real exams. 

However, NTT, a 12th grader of the school, said she was too tired with so many exams. 

“I want a relax after the semester-end exam, but I can’t, because I now have to prepare for mock exams and real exams,” she said.


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