Nearly 24,000 students from all over the province enter for the high school graduation exam 2009

Vice chairwoman of the provincial People's Committee – Huynh Thi Nga – made a speech at the meeting

    The president of the Department of Education and Training – Le Minh Hoang – said the exam will take place within 3 days, June 2, 3 and 4 – 2009. The exam 2009 will have some changes: the Ministry of Education and Training will not organize the re-examination, each writing-based exam paper will be marked by two teachers, who are selected by the Ministry and the exam questions are divided into two parts: compulsory and optional. In 2009, the province has a total of 23,879 high school students including 17,091 students of basic subjects, 6,002 students of science subjects and 786 students of social studies (not including individual students) registering for the exam. Dong Nai Department of Education and Training will establish 47 examination councils with a total of 1,100 exam rooms. In addition, 5,000 continuing education students have registered for the exam and they will sit for the exam organized at 10 exam councils with a total of 220 exam rooms. It is expected that 3,000 education officers and teachers, not including police and security forces and medical staff who serve the exam will be mobilized and will work as inspectors and proctors.

Examinees are sitting the graduation exam

    Delivering a speech at the meeting, Vice chairwoman of the provincial People's Committee – Huynh Thi Nga stressed that the number of students registering for the exam 2009, of examination councils and of exam rooms decline compared to last year. Nga added that there are some changes to the exam, so the Department of Education and Training should follow the instructions of the Chairman of the provincial People's Committee and the province’s method for organizing the exam. It is essential to focus on assisting students, especially average and below-average students in their study, instruct them how to do the exam paper and make the exam paper structure known to all students. To organize a successful exam, it is necessary that the department should choose the qualified staff as proctors and collaborate actively with the Department of Education and Training. For the departments, sectors and concerned agencies, it is necessary to fully grasp the instructions of the provincial People’s Committee and the guidance of the Ministry of Education and Training and to cooperate closely with the Department of Education and Training in organizing a serious and safe examination.

    It was known that the province had 26,044 students registering for the 2007-2008 exam and only 19,725 students (accounting for 76.1%) achieved good score to pass the exam. 5,538 students registered for the re-exam and 2,231 students (accounting for 41.9%) obtained good score to pass the exam.

(Reported by Thu Dung, Translated by Duy Minh)