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Writing is a momentous skill because it necessitates perfect grammar and content or ideas. Especially, writing in national excellent student exams is considered one of the extremely important parts that determine a student's success or failure. The study examines a multitude of elements related to essay writing including the challenges that students are facing when preparing to write essays and presents feasible strategies to assist students in overcoming those challenges. Through a qualitative approach supplemented by descriptive and quantitative techniques, data were collected via surveys and interviews from 35 grade 11 students during 15 weeks of the second semester of school year. The findings reveal insights into the implementation of writing strategies at Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm High School for the gifted, highlighting its benefits with writing strategies such as such as best application each type of task requirement, analysis and integration of the ideas related to the topic by the teacher before beginning to write. Additionally, the research results also support the teachers of English at High schools for the Gifted in effectively applying those strategies to writing skills and creating more opportunities for writing practice that yield the best results for students.
Keywords: writing skills, strategies, challenges.