Ministry of Education announces formula for converting university admission scores in 2025

(Dan Tri) - The Ministry of Education and Training plans a formula with graduation exam scores or transcripts as the basis, combining a series of criteria to convert university admission scores in 2025.

Bộ Giáo dục công bố công thức quy đổi điểm xét tuyển đại học năm 2025 - 1 — Candidates and parents listen to university admissions advice (Photo: Huyen Nguyen).

The above information is included in the draft guidelines for university admissions in 2025 introduced by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) to schools at the 2025 Admissions Conference held on March 29 in Hai Phong City.

According to the Ministry of Education and Training, the admission scores between admission methods and admission combinations of an admission code follow a rule set by the training institution, ensuring equivalence in terms of meeting the input requirements of the corresponding training program, industry, and group of industries.

For a training program, major, or group of majors, all candidates are considered equally based on the admission score and equivalent converted admission score according to each admission method and admission combination.

Therefore, for schools that use multiple admission methods, the school must develop rules for converting scores equivalent to the entrance threshold and guaranteed admission scores according to the admission regulations.

The Ministry requires that the conversion rules/formulas must be simple, easy to understand and convenient to apply. In particular, schools use high school graduation exam score data or high school learning results as the basis for building conversion rules.

The construction needs to be based on statistical data and analysis of the learning outcomes of students admitted according to the combinations of previous years (at least 2 consecutive previous years).

From the correlation between university learning outcomes and the score distribution of the same group of candidates; the threshold to ensure input quality (floor score) to the maximum level of the scoring scale, schools must determine at least 3 score ranges (for example, excellent - good, fair, pass), from which to build at least three linear correlation functions (3 first-order functions) for these score ranges.

Bộ Giáo dục công bố công thức quy đổi điểm xét tuyển đại học năm 2025 - 2 — Sample conversion table published by the Ministry of Education and Training (Source: Ministry of Education and Training).

Based on the above plan, at the same time, based on the standard rules announced by the Ministry after the high school graduation exam scores are available, based on the specific characteristics of the training program and major, universities will complete the conversion rules and announce them according to regulations.

The set cites a specific descriptive example. For example, analyzing the results of the same group of candidates using the 2024 high school graduation exam results and the academic transcript results (6 semesters) according to 5 traditional blocks; based on the assessment of students' academic results in previous years, it shows that: good and excellent candidates account for 30% of the total number of admitted candidates, corresponding to the high school graduation exam results of 24.75 and the academic transcript admission score of 25.75; good candidates or better account for 80% of the total number of candidates, the corresponding high school graduation exam results are 20.5 and the academic transcript admission score is 22.0; the rest are at the passing level.

Accordingly, universities can use the scores (24.75; 25.75); (20.5; 22) along with the score as the input quality assurance threshold and the maximum score of the assessment scale (30; 30) to linearize each region and establish a formula (first-degree equation form) to convert the equivalent admission score between the two methods.

Assuming the floor score is 15 for both methods, the specific calculation will give the following results:

Bộ Giáo dục công bố công thức quy đổi điểm xét tuyển đại học năm 2025 - 3

Bộ Giáo dục công bố công thức quy đổi điểm xét tuyển đại học năm 2025 - 4 — Example of instructions for converting equivalent admission scores (Source: Ministry of Education and Training).

Below is another example of equivalent conversion of admission scores between the method of considering thinking assessment test scores (ĐGTD) and based on high school graduation exam results.