That question has 2 correct answers
This year’s English exam has recorded debates surrounding professional issues.
< p>In which, in question 31 – exam code 401 (question 46 – exam code 402, sentence 50 – exam code 409), the test requires choosing the wrong answer. Controversy surrounding options B and C.
See details of exam 401 HERE.
Topic: “Their pioneering (A) research shows that the learning motivation of the two groups of learners was quite distinctive (B) from each other and the comparative (C) group whose learning motivation was stronger performed better than the control (D) group”.
(Temporarily translated: Their pioneering research shows that the learning motivation of two groups of learners is quite different from each other and the test group. Experiment with people with stronger learning motivation achieving better learning results than the control group).
The underlined words to choose the errors include (words in brackets are the Vietnamese meanings). understand in the context of the question asked): A. reemerge (pioneer); B. distinctive (different); C. compared (experiment/comparison); D. control (control/control).
According to answer announced by the Ministry of Education and Training, the correct answer is B. This means If the candidate answers C (the word that needs to be corrected is the word comparative), there will be no points.
Comment on this answer Mr. Luyen Quang Kien (Hanoi) who has scored 9.0 IELTS 5 times ( and the first person in Vietnam to achieve 9.0 with all 4 IELTS skills including listening, speaking, reading and writing) expressed his dissatisfaction.
“The truth is that that question has 2 correct answers! If Not accepting the candidate’s correct answer is an injustice,” Mr. Kien told reporter Dan Tri.
According to Mr. Kien, the Ministry of Education and Training chose answer B. can be understood if viewed from the perspective of the principles of the person who set the problem. When setting a test, the test setter has the goal of testing based on what students have learned.
At the level of high school students, testing “distinct” with “distinctive” is a reasonable answer. However, he also pointed out that the candidate who chose answer C compared is still correct.
According to him, comparative and “comparison” group are common content at university level or regular learners read newspaper research.
“There is really no reason Why put the concept of comparison/comparison in the test for 12th graders because it is not a suitable vocabulary group for this type of test taker? But good people will often choose this answer” he Kien shared.
At the same time, Mr. Quang Kien pointed out the quoted exam question to ask candidates if there were errors in punctuation in the sentence.
Write correctly the principles of adjective clauses the word in English should be: “Their renewed research showed that the learning motivation of the two groups of learners was quite distinctive from each other and the comparative group whose learning motivation was stronger performed better than the control group”.
< p>From the above reasons, Mr. Kien believes that if only answer B is recognized, it will be unfair because the better students will see the problem with answer C. However, the better students will lose points.< /p>
Therefore, to be fair to the candidates, Mr. Luyen Quang Kien stated that the Ministry of Education and Training should accept both answers.
Agreeing with the same opinion, Ms. Vu Thi Mai Phuong, who teaches English in Hanoi, wrote a petition to the Ministry of Education and Training.
She expressed in science when When comparing two groups of research subjects, the terms “control group” and “experimental group” or “comparison group” are used.
The comparison group/experimental group is the group that receives the intervention. of the experiment and the “control group” served as the baseline. The mention of “research” and the basic group “control group” leads to the word “comparative” becoming misleading about scientific knowledge. Therefore, answer C needs to be recognized.
“For those who choose the “comparative” answer, I propose that the Ministry of Education and Training recognize the score. 0 2 points if doubled in the English language major. “This is a decisive factor in students’ failure and will be a great disadvantage for students who recognize this mistake in the sentence,” Ms. Phuong expressed.
“Cartoon” only means is a cartoon?
Similarly, sentence 18 of code 401 is also controversial with the request to fill in the blank: “The journalist is talking about having a new______ published in the local newspaper next week”.
The four answers given include: A. editor; B. documentary; C. cartoon; D. article.
The official answer just announced by the Ministry of Education and Training is D. However, there are still many opinions that the candidate choosing C is still correct.
Mr. Nguyen Trung Dung Program manager of a system education In Vietnam, analyzing the answer C. cartoon means caricature/comedy/comic.
This answer is consistent with the rest of the content of the sentence “published in the local newspaper – published in the local newspaper”. “Cartoon” is one of many items that often appear in newspapers.
He thinks that maybe the combination of “cartoon” and “The journalist” is not very favorable, but it is not at all. wrong in both content and grammar.
According to the definition of Oxford Learner’s Dictionary (online) journalist is “a person whose job is to collect and write news stories for newspapers magazines radio television or online news sites”.
According to the Cambridge Dictionary (online) journalist definition is “a person who writes news stories or articles for a newspaper or magazine or broadcasts them on radio or television”.
There are many definitions of “journalist”. The sentence in the test has no context, so as long as the content of the sentence is not wrong, the sentence is completely correct. A certain journalist, despite his professional career as a journalist, still wanted to try his hand at drawing caricatures/comedies/comics and luckily just got published in the local newspaper next week.
“This expression is not wrong. Just because there is “the journalist” in the sentence, the remaining content of the sentence must be “article”. Such an inference is rigid,” Mr. Dung said. .
Response to the press about question 18 GS. Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Ha, Head of the committee that sets the high school graduation exam, said that the team that set the English exam confirmed that D. article is the correct answer.
Specifically, cartoon means animated film (a film that is made by photographing a series of drawings – Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English). With this meaning, cartoon does not fit the context of “newspaper”.
Therefore, the head of this department expressed that the Ministry of Education and Training announced the answers to the English subject when there was no answer yet. Satisfactory for professional questions related to the exam is a job difficult to understand.
“My foreign colleagues’ English Their mother tongue also felt confused by the National Committee’s explanation that “cartoon” means cartoon, so it does not fit with the rest of the sentence, which is “newspaper”. “It just means that the cartoon is no different from saying that the word “go” in English is just a verb,” said Mr. Nguyen Trung Dung.
And Mr. Luu Viet Cuong teaches English in Ho Chi Minh City. Hai Phong expressed concerns about question number 50 of code 401 (also question 42 of code 419).
Specific question:
“Question 42: Which of the following can be conveyed from the passage?
A. Many adults think that the present world is as dangerous as it used to be.
B. Many adults are doubtful about their children’s ability to take care of themselves.
C. Virtual life is considered to be more and more challenging for teenagers in the present world.
D. The majority of teenagers investigated believed virtual reality was as interesting as real life”.
Mr. Cuong analyzed that options A and D were both wrong in terms of information, but option B announced by the Ministry of Education and Training was also not sufficiently grounded. Just.
He cited information in the reading: “The adults said they thought today’s youth were more protected than they had been when they were growing up. Giving examples of this protection more than half said they would not let their teenage children hitchhike or go on holiday without an adult. Seven in ten said they would not allow their teenagers to get into a taxi on their own.
It is not clear whether adults believe the world is more dangerous than it used to be or whether they do not trust today’s youngsters to look after themselves.”
(Temporarily translated: “Surveyed adults said they think today’s teenagers are covers more than given an example of this protection more than half said they would not let a minor hitchhike or travel without an adult.
Seven in ten say they would not allow their teenage children to get into a taxi alone. It’s unclear whether adults believe the world is more dangerous than it used to be or if they don’t trust young people today can take care of themselves”).
Mr. Cuong stated that from the information in the reading, it can clearly be seen that the author himself cannot conclude why adults tends to protect children more in today’s modern society.
Therefore, the information of option D. Many adults are doubtful about their children’s ability to take care of themselves is divided in The present simple expresses a certain truth that cannot be affirmed as true (TRUE) or false (FALSE), but can only be affirmed as having no information (NOT GIVEN).
“An information NOT GIVEN is used as a basis to infer in the inference question. I think this is a shortcoming,” Mr. Cuong said.
To clarify, Mr. Cuong gave an illustrative example with Vietnamese to defend his point of view.
He wrote: “Many students today communicate better in English than previous generations. It is unclear whether this is the result of innovation in teaching methods or the investment of parents.”
If we follow the above inference, the answer will be: “Inferred Do parents care more about investing in their children?”.
He pointed out that this way of reasoning is completely wrong.
“The official answer has been The Ministry of Education and Training announced that I think the Ministry has made certain considerations. However, I hope the representative of the Ministry of Education and Training will have a convincing explanation for the students, teachers and the whole society about the questions being debated,” Mr. Luu Viet Cuong wrote in a letter sent to the Ministry of Education and Training. and Dan Tri.
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