LookAtVietnam – High school final exams are over and it’s now time for intensive preparatory centers for university entrance exams to open.

High school final exams are over and it’s now time for intensive preparatory centers for university entrance exams to open. Despite considerable effort, however, these programs are not attracting many students.

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On June 6, two days after high school finals ended, village students began flocking to HCM City to prepare for university entrance exams. Along with their arrival are also advertising campaigns by uni exam preparation centers.

To Hien Thanh Exam Preparation Centre, located next to HCM City University of Technology has leaflets to introduce the center, as well as newspaper ads, calling the center the best in HCM City with lecturers from the most prestigious schools.

To lure more students, the center allows them to attend free of charge for two weeks. Students will only officially register and pay tuition if they like the center.

A center officer explained that intensive preparatory class for A-group university entrance exams (math, physics, and chemistry) will open on June 7. There will be two A-group exam preparatory classes with tuitions of one million dong per course for full classes and 1.5 million dong per course for those with less than 20 students.

Chu Van An Exam Preparation Center advertised a tuition package for 1.2 million dong and those residing in the center’s dormitory, pay 300,000 dong more.

The enrollment and job center under HCM City Industry University enrolled students and opened prep classes early, from June 30. Class attendees must pay one million dong and the center guarantees that 100 percent of their students will pass the exams.

Saigon Tri Thuc Exam Preparation Center attracts learners by announcing that it will cover 100 percent of coach-class tickets for students from neighboring provinces.

Despite these extensive efforts, exam preparation centers remain quiet. Khai Nguyen, Chua Van An, Vinh Vien and the Exam Preparation Center under the HCM City University of Education (considered the largest in HCM City) cannot attract many students.

Chu Van An Centre attracted 100 learners by June 6, but began receiving students in early March. The situation is the same at other centers.

Explaining the empty classrooms, education analysts explain that students nowadays think they do not have to attend prep classes in big cities, since exam prep centers in rural areas have been mushrooming over the last few years. Moreover, many students review for exams on their own rather than attending exam preparation classes.

Quiet classrooms can also be seen in Hanoi. The well-known exam preparation institutions around Hanoi University of Technology remain all but deserted.

At an exam center headed by Lecturers Du and Binh, Tien phong reporters were told that tuition is just 1,080,000 dong per training course. Students can choose to study in different classes, depending on their learning capability.

Source: Tien phong