Minister urges hastened inspection of high school exam cheating
Minister urges hastened inspection of national high school exam cheating
Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha has emphasised the acceleration of clarifying abnormal results of the national high school examination in the northern mountainous provinces Ha Giang, Son La and Lang Son.
Hanoi (VNA) - Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha has emphasisedthe acceleration of clarifying abnormal results of the national high school examinationin the northern mountainous provinces Ha Giang, Son La and Lang Son.
Speakingat a meeting on July 19, Nha stressed that every person found to have violatedregulations would be strictly punished, saying the Ha Giang scandal is a‘wake-up call’ to all test organisers.
Headded that over the past four years, the new format of the high schoolexamination has been improved in many aspects, helping reduce pressure and savetime and costs for students, their families and the whole of society.
Althoughtechnical aspects of the exam have been getting better, the “human factor isstill the decisive element.”
“Ifthe people involved in the process are not of pure integrity, then suchunfortunate incidents could still happen no matter how modern the gradingsystem has become,” the minister said.
“Weare resolved to give justice to students and regain public trust in the exam,”he noted.
Theresults of the national high school examination, which determine whetherstudents can enter universities and were released on July 11, showed suspicioussigns as the rate of good scores in Ha Giang was unusually high compared withprevious years and other localities that traditionally do better.
OnJuly 13, the Authority of Examination and Quality Management under theMinistry of Education and Training (MoET) decided to set up an inspection team.
The inspection revealed that 330 multiple-choice tests of 114 students in HaGiang were adjusted up by more than 1.0 points each. One examiner has confessedhis role in the cheating scandal.
Theinvestigation bureau of the Ha Giang police on July 19 started criminalproceedings into the exam cheating scandal in the province.
OnJuly 18, Nha also established two inspection teams to clarify test results inSon La and Lang Son.
OnJuly 19, the inspection team led by Mai Van Trinh, head of the Authority of Examination and Quality Management,had a working session with representatives from the Son La provincialDepartment of Education and Training.
Thetest sheets were re-graded on July 19 night and the results are expected to beannounced soon.
Accordingto statistics, Son La recorded the lowest average score for all six subjects inthe high school examination. However, the rate of students scoring nine andabove in the maths and physics tests was much higher than other localities witha history of good scores. -VNA
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered the Ministry of Public Security to open an investigation into the recent high school exam scandal in northern mountainous Ha Giang province.
Further inspections are being carried out into abnormal results of the national high school examination in the mountainous provinces of Lang Son and Son La.
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