Sample entrance exams for 10th grade high school will be released in September.

According to Mr. Tan, based on the orientation of the 2018 General Education Program, secondary education in Ho Chi Minh City always focuses on the most important goal: comprehensively educating students' qualities and abilities. This helps students develop self-learning skills, learn to understand, and learn to assert themselves.

Specifically, to implement the 2018 General Education Program, schools in the area have developed and implemented educational plans at each school. In this plan, the principals organize the development of implementation plans for each subject and educational activity, ensuring the prescribed time allocation in the program and arranging teaching and learning in each semester in a reasonable and scientific manner.

Also at the conference, Mr. Nguyen Minh Hieu - Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training - emphasized: "The Department will strive to have sample exam questions for the 10th grade entrance exam in September. The questions will be designed based on how teaching should be done, and how testing and evaluation should be conducted, avoiding overwhelming students."

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training has issued a document guiding that all supplementary activities in the school curriculum must be carried out on a voluntary basis by parents. "Schools must absolutely not allow situations where students are forced to participate in classes with foreign teachers even if the family does not wish to. If such a situation occurs, the principal will be held responsible," Mr. Hieu instructed.

Regarding the innovation of testing and evaluation methods and formats, Mr. Tan shared that the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training has provided consistent and timely guidance on reforming testing and evaluation; the method of testing and evaluating quality has gradually shifted from testing knowledge to evaluating the competencies and qualities of learners; measuring students' progress in the learning process and the extent to which they meet the required standards of subjects and educational activities, ensuring reliability, fairness, and objectivity.

Education focuses on the human element.

Speaking at the conference, Mr. Tan affirmed: "Although each educational institution has different conditions, we must have a spirit of competition regardless of physical facilities. Schools with inadequate facilities should strive to improve. Schools with better facilities should share and support those with less developed infrastructure. We should not only focus on physical facilities and information technology but also on the human factor."

According to Mr. Tan, developing digital schools is one of the key tasks. Actively competing to build digital schools, with proactive and creative solutions, will lead to many schools effectively transforming digitally, becoming exemplary in implementing the "50 Digital Schools" project to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of Southern Vietnam and National Reunification (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025).

According to Mr. Tan, it is necessary to improve the capacity of the management staff and teachers to enhance the quality of education; focus on maintaining and improving the quality of students in the final year; and promote the role of teachers and education management staff in some districts and counties to improve the quality of teaching and learning in order to achieve the overall progress of the City.

Continue implementing digital transformation in professional activities, orienting towards smart education. Mobilize the intellectual resources and creativity of educators in innovating content and teaching methods to promote self-learning, guided learning, and lifelong learning for learners.

"I hope that the units facing difficulties will not feel discouraged or discouraged. As guides, we must be confident. If we encounter difficulties, we must improve ourselves and support each other," Mr. Tan said.

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