Ministry of Education and Training "blows the whistle" on schools that recruit students with "strange" combinations

PNVN newspaper has just published an article reflecting on the situation of many universities using combinations of subjects that do not include core subjects in admissions, including special majors such as Medicine and Pedagogy.

Faced with these shortcomings, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Hoang Minh Son affirmed that universities do not seem to understand the difference between this year's admission season and previous years. In the old general education program (2006), students were required to study all subjects, so even if a school recruited students for the Health major without using a combination of Biology, candidates still had a certain amount of basic knowledge about this subject.

However, 2025 is the first year that students under the 2018 General Education Program graduate. The new program only requires four compulsory subjects: Math, Literature, History, and Foreign Language, the rest are elective subjects. Therefore, if a school enrolls students in the medical field without using Biology in the admission combination, it is entirely possible that a candidate who has never studied this subject in high school will be admitted.

According to current admission regulations, universities are not limited in the number of admission combinations. However, the majors and admission combinations must ensure reliability, be able to assess input requirements and classify candidates' qualifications.

"Schools can add additional criteria to the entrance threshold. For example, if a school considers admission to the medical field using a combination of Math, Chemistry, and English (A01), it should add a mandatory requirement that candidates have studied Biology in high school, and at the same time set a minimum score for this subject. This will help ensure that successful candidates have a basic knowledge base in Biology, meeting the requirements of the field of study," Deputy Minister Hoang Minh Son proposed a solution.

The timely move by the Ministry of Education and Training is expected to help universities adjust their admission plans to suit the characteristics of each field of study, ensuring input quality and bringing fairness to all candidates in the 2025 university entrance exam.

Schools need to quickly review and re-evaluate current admission combinations and make necessary adjustments to ensure the goal of selecting students with sufficient capacity and passion for their chosen field of study.

Source: https://phunuvietnam.vn/bo-gd-dt-tuyt-coi-nhung-truong-tuyen-sinh-bang-to-hop-la-20250403234115422.htm