Remember the principle of caution when taking the high school graduation exam in English

Above is advice from Mr. Nguyen Trung Nguyen, an English teacher in Hanoi , to do well in the high school graduation exam in English.

Frequently asked question types

According to this teacher, English has always had a relatively low score in the high school graduation exam in previous years, partly because many students are not confident or do not have an effective review and test-taking strategy for this subject.

Based on the sample exam, the 2024 English high school graduation exam will still have 100% multiple choice questions, 50 questions, and a test time of 60 minutes. The question types will probably still be sentence completion, synonyms - antonyms, pronunciation - stress, conversational English, paragraph completion, reading comprehension, finding mistakes and rewriting sentences.

Mr. Nguyen Trung Nguyen, English teacher in Hanoi (Photo: NVCC)

The knowledge appearing in the exam will certainly be the grammar and vocabulary knowledge that you have learned in the high school English program, especially the 12th grade English program. Therefore, if you have a firm grasp of the knowledge according to the textbook program distribution, getting a good score is certainly not a difficult problem.

Specifically, with grammar knowledge, you need to systematize your knowledge of word classes (nouns - adjectives - adverbs), prepositions, pronouns, verbs (verb tenses - passive sentences - gerunds), modal verbs, conjunctions, conditional sentences, relative clauses, comparison of adjectives and adverbs. In addition, you need to pay attention to knowledge related to indirect and direct sentences.

With vocabulary, you need to reread the readings you have learned in the 12th grade curriculum to consolidate and master the important vocabulary you have learned.

How to handle different types of questions to get high scores

However, to achieve high scores, students also need to develop test-taking skills to be able to handle different types of questions in the exam such as synonyms - antonyms, paragraph completion, or reading comprehension.

For example, with the type of question that requires choosing the correct answer to complete a paragraph, if you have good test-taking skills, you can see that the test will include 4 types of questions: relative pronoun questions, quantifiers, conjunctive adverbs and vocabulary questions.

With the relative pronoun question, the test will only ask us to choose the relative pronouns "who, which, whom, that", not "where, when, whose, how, why, WH-ever". Therefore, when encountering this question in the "punching paragraph" section, we only pay attention to the answers containing "who, which, that, whom". At this point, choosing the correct answer will become much simpler.

Candidates should not be subjective with easy questions (Photo: Manh Quan).

(Illustrative excerpt - 2024)

"Air travel to distant places results in huge amounts of carbon emissions (28) _____ contribute to global warming."

Question 28: A. where B. when C. which D. who

We can immediately eliminate A and B and choose C because right before the "____" mark is a noun.

Or another example with the type of error finding questions. We will see that 3 error finding questions will usually have one wrong personal pronoun, one wrong verb tense, one wrong semantics. If we do a lot, we can easily choose the right answer for these difficult questions.

When you see an answer with a personal pronoun, you can circle that answer. When you see an answer with a verb and the time appears in the sentence, circle the verb answer because those are incorrect answers.

(Illustrative excerpt - 2024)

Question 45: All office workers are required to wear her name tags in the workplace.

A. office B. required C. her D. workplace

-> Select C.

Question 46: Many doctors in our hospital volunteer to help people in remote areas last year.

A. Many B. our C. volunteer D. areas

-> Select C.

Don't be subjective with the question "anti-paralysis"

High school graduation exams are always general, meaning there will always be questions to "prevent paralysis", very easy but unfortunately many students subjectively make mistakes on such questions. Therefore, when doing the test, you should be careful and always remember the "principle of caution", do not underestimate easy questions, do not underestimate difficult questions, because whether easy or difficult, the score is the same, only circle when you are sure that it is the correct answer (for questions that can be done well).

"There is only a little time left from today until the exam day, during this time you should not review the knowledge you have learned throughout the past school year. Instead, collect exam questions from previous years, as well as reference exam questions and take those exam questions seriously. Then, evaluate the results and draw your own experiences.

Another thing is to always prepare yourself physically and mentally, avoid eating strange foods before the exam to prevent bad situations. In addition, you need to understand the exam regulations to avoid regrettable violations.

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