Ministry of Education and Training confirms that it still allows assessment of capacity for grade 6

(NLDO)- According to the Ministry of Education and Training, secondary schools can still directly evaluate students when enrolling them in grade 6 through questions and answers, writing, presentations...

Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Director of the Department of Secondary Education, Ministry of Education and Training, on January 10 informed about Circular No. 30 on Regulations on junior high school (THCS) and high school (THPT) admissions, effective from February 14, 2025.

Secondary schools can still directly evaluate students when enrolling them in grade 6 through questions and answers, writing, presentations...

According to the Director of the Department of Secondary Education, previously, Circular No. 11 of 2014 stipulated that junior high school enrollment would be conducted annually by examination. This regulation ensures that junior high school enrollment is carried out smoothly, effectively, and practically for the level of education that requires 100% of students to enroll according to the goal of universal education.

By 2018, due to the fact that there were a number of prestigious secondary schools with a large number of students enrolling, making the admission based on general criteria unable to meet the enrollment target, the Ministry of Education and Training issued Circular No. 05 regulating "Secondary school admission based on the admission method.

In case the number of students registering for grade 6 is more than the enrollment quota, the Department of Education and Training will guide the implementation of the enrollment plan by the selection method or combining selection with testing and assessing students' abilities.

At the time of issuing Circular No. 05 in 2018, the Ministry of Education and Training also clearly stated that testing and assessing capacity is different from an exam, meaning that when conducting admission to a secondary school, if the number of students meeting the requirements of the general admission criteria still exceeds the school's assigned quota, the school can combine testing and assessing capacity to supplement the admission criteria applied to the number of students who have met the requirements of the general admission criteria, instead of organizing an entire exam with many subjects for 100% of students applying to the school.

However, through the implementation in recent years, some schools have implemented enrollment mainly based on organizing "testing and evaluating student capacity" as an entrance exam for 100% of students applying to the school. The role of "admission" in the method of combining with "testing and evaluating student capacity" as prescribed in Circular No. 05 has not been properly implemented.

Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thanh affirmed that the newly issued Circular No. 30 continues to stipulate that the method of secondary school admission is selection, along with regulations assigning the Departments of Education and Training to provide specific guidance on selection criteria, ensuring that the selection process is fair, objective, transparent, and suitable to the practical situation of the locality.

Accordingly, the Departments of Education and Training must develop a set of admission criteria applicable to all schools; at the same time, have separate criteria guidelines for schools that, after implementing admission according to general criteria, still have more students meeting the requirements than the school's assigned quota.

The specific criteria are not only the requirements in the admission application but also need to directly assess students in many different forms such as: questions and answers, writing, presentations, practice, experiments, academic records, products, and student activities (these forms have been prescribed in the Circulars promulgating regulations on student assessment of the Ministry of Education and Training) or tests and assessments of student capacity (in the spirit of the provisions in Circular No. 05 of 2018 to ensure that admission is carried out fairly, publicly, transparently, and in accordance with practical conditions as prescribed in Circular 30).

"It should be noted that for enrollment at any secondary school, according to the principles of Circular No. 30, universalization tasks must be carried out in the area. That is also the basis for the Department of Education and Training to develop enrollment criteria to ensure accurate, fair, public and transparent enrollment requirements," Mr. Thanh emphasized.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/bo-gd-dt-khang-dinh-van-cho-phep-danh-gia-nang-luc-vao-lop-6-196250110110119225.htm