Ministry of Education issues formula for converting scores: Is it easy to apply?

The 2025 University and College Admissions Regulations for Preschool Education recently issued by the Ministry of Education and Training stipulate: Equivalence conversion is the conversion of the input threshold and admission score between admission methods and admission combinations of an admission code according to a rule prescribed by the training institution, ensuring equivalence in the level of meeting the input requirements of the corresponding training program, major, and group of majors...

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Therefore, training institutions that use many admission methods must develop conversion rules equivalent to the input threshold and admission score to ensure compliance with the Admission Regulations with the following contents: Conversion rules/formulas must be simple, easy to understand and convenient for application; Use the review score (including: total score of the combination/assessment results... and bonus points) to determine the conversion rule; Announce the admission score to candidates according to each admission method.

For training institutions that organize their own exams (competency assessment exams, thinking assessment exams), announce the score distribution and develop a plan to convert their exam results with the 2025 high school graduation exam scores. In the immediate future, it is possible to announce the conversion rules with the 2024 score results so that training institutions can use these exam results as reference and develop rules; announce the rules for converting the results of separate exams to each other; when the 2025 high school graduation exam results are available, together with the Ministry of Education and Training, announce the standard conversion rules.

The Ministry of Education and Training said that the principle of building the conversion formula is based on using high school graduation exam score data (or high school learning results data) as the basis for building the conversion rule; Based on statistical data, analyze the learning results of students who were admitted according to the combinations of previous years. Specifically, statistics on the number of candidates admitted according to each admission method for at least 2 consecutive years...

Specific conversion table:

Source: Ministry of Education and Training

The corresponding linear correlation function is:

Source: Ministry of Education and Training

Based on the above plan, at the same time, based on the standard rules announced by the Ministry of Education and Training after the results of the 2025 high school graduation exam are available, training institutions will, based on the specific characteristics of the training program/industry/group of industries, complete the conversion rules of the training institution and announce them according to regulations.

According to the calculations of the Ministry of Education and Training, with example 1: Analyzing the results of the same group of candidates using the 2024 high school graduation exam results and the transcript results (6 semesters) according to 5 traditional groups; based on the assessment of students' learning outcomes in previous years, it shows that: excellent candidates account for 30% of the total number of admitted candidates, corresponding to the high school exam results of 24.75 and the transcript score of admission is 25.75. Good candidates or better account for 80% of the total number of candidates, the corresponding high school exam results are 20.5 and the transcript score of admission is 22.0; the rest is the passing level. Accordingly, training institutions can use the scores (24.75; 25.75); (20.5;22) together with the score is the threshold to ensure input quality and the maximum score of the assessment scale (30/30) to linearize each region and establish a formula (first-order equation form) to convert the equivalent admission score between the two methods.

Assuming the cutoff score is 15 for both methods, then:

A candidate A has a grade point average of 23 and will be converted to the original method scale score, which is the method based on high school graduation exam scores, with the following formula:

In addition, it can be seen that the difference in scores (6-semester report card scores and high school graduation exam scores) fluctuates between 1.0 - 1.5 points for this group of candidates.

Example 2: Equivalent conversion of admission scores between the method of using the results of the thinking assessment test and the method of admission using the results of the high school graduation exam. Based on the analysis of the data on academic scores, the distribution of thinking assessment test scores and high school graduation exam scores of the same group of candidates at University A, the following conversion table was created:

From there, the linear correlation function for each region is determined as follows:

For example, a candidate has a score according to the thinking assessment method (thinking assessment test score + bonus points (if any) of 68.68 points, then converted to the score according to the high school method will be: (68.68 + 65)/5 = 26.75 points.

Nghiem Hue

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