THE APPROPRIATE TIME FOR THE 9TH GRADE STUDENT'S VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE, THE CASE STUDY OF CHU VAN AN SECONDARY SCHOOL

By Duong Ngoc Thuy Duong
DOI: 10.37550/tdmu.EJS/2024.03.583

Vocational guidance plays an important role in career orientation for
secondary students. Before entering the secondary school graduation exam,
schools around the country start to organize career counseling. This urgent
issue drives parents, teachers, and students up the wall, especially students are
the learners who directly suffer from this consequence leading to students’
mental health issues. The study aim is to find out the optimal solution that
helps students overcome the high pressure of vocational counseling before the
graduation exam. In this inquiry, quantitative research is the best method to
focus on surveying students’ awareness based on comparative research which
is typical research, and via this exploration to evaluate the research object
comprehensively. The comparative research is applied in this article to
discover the differences between vocational guidance before and after the
10th-grade entrance exam towards poorer and lower-scoring students. This
study is put into operation at Chu Van An secondary school – in Binh Duong
province – academic year 2023-2024 and the students of grade 9 are research
objects which are chosen to answer survey questions. According to survey
tables, more than 93.3% of students with poorer and lower scores select
vocational guidance after the secondary school graduation exam and 6.7% of
students take the reverse one. What we need to think about is whether this way
of present career counseling is feasible