Regarding the regulations on secondary school admission, the Ministry of Education and Training assigned the Departments of Education and Training to develop a set of admission criteria applicable to all schools. The specific criteria for admission to grade 6 can be direct assessment or tests to assess students' abilities.
The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has issued Circular No. 30/TT-BGDDT on the Regulations on junior high school (THCS) and high school (THPT) admissions. The Circular takes effect from February 14, 2025.
In particular, the regulation on secondary school admission based on the selection method is causing many conflicting opinions from the public.
On January 10, speaking with reporters of Dai Doan Ket Newspaper about the concerns of parents and schools when the entrance exam for grade 6 is abolished from 2025, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Director of the Department of Secondary Education, Ministry of Education and Training, said that previously, Circular No. 11/2014/TT-BGDDT stipulated that the annual secondary school enrollment is based on the selection process. This regulation ensures that the enrollment in secondary school 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, in the face of 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. 05/2018/TT-BGDDT stipulating "Secondary school admission based on the admission method. In cases where an educational institution has more students enrolling in grade 6 than the enrollment target, the Department of Education and Training shall guide the implementation of the admission plan based on the admission method or combine admission with testing and assessing students' abilities".
Mr. Thanh said that when Circular No. 05 was issued, the Ministry of Education and Training also clearly stated that testing and assessing capacity is different from an exam. That is, 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 tests and assessing students' abilities as an entrance exam for 100% of students applying to the school. The role of admission in the method combined with testing and assessing students' abilities as prescribed in Circular No. 05 has not been properly implemented.
According to Mr. Thanh, the newly issued Circular No. 30/TT-BGDDT continues to stipulate that the secondary school admission method is selection, along with regulations assigning the Department of Education and Training to provide specific guidance on selection criteria, ensuring that the selection process is fair, objective, transparent, and appropriate to the local situation.
Accordingly, the Department 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.
Mr. Thanh emphasized: “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, student activities or tests, assessing students' abilities according to the spirit of regulations in Circular No. 05 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/TT-BGDDT, 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.
In recent years, most public secondary schools have recruited students through examinations and by school district. Schools with more students than their quota usually hold entrance exams.
In Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, some middle schools have a competition rate for grade 6 of up to 1/20, many times higher than the competition for grade 10, even for university entrance exams.
Source: https://daidoanket.vn/bo-gddt-co-cam-thi-tuyen-vao-lop-6-10298069.html
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