Announcing specialized competency assessment test according to new structure from 2025

Ho Chi Minh City University of Education uses security scanners to check candidates before entering the 2024 specialized competency assessment exam room – Photo: XUAN HUY

The specialized competency assessment test for university admission has been implemented by Ho Chi Minh City University of Education since 2022. In 2025, the school will continue to organize this test.

Many improvements in the structure of the exam questions

According to Master Nguyen Ngoc Trung, Vice Principal of Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, after 3 years, the specialized competency assessment exam has gradually been widely accepted by society.

Many schools have researched using exam results for admission and have achieved very encouraging initial results.

In particular, in 2024, after five days of opening the registration portal, the rate of candidates registering at the examination sites in Ho Chi Minh City and Long An province reached over 80%. The total number of candidates participating in all 5 sessions in 2024 reached 8,540.

“Continue to develop the specialized competency assessment exam for the following years. At the same time, to be consistent with the new general education program, the school's specialized competency assessment exam from 2025 will have many improvements in the exam structure of the subjects of math, physics, chemistry, biology and literature. As for English, the exam structure will remain the same as in previous years,” Mr. Trung added.

What is the sample exam for the specialized competency assessment?

According to Mr. Trung, to help candidates learn about the competency assessment test and prepare well for the upcoming exam, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education has announced an illustrative exam for the new structure from 2025 of the specialized competency assessment test.

The sample test is designed to serve the candidates who are students studying the current high school program, participating in the exams organized from 2025, in which the knowledge content of the grade 12 program accounts for 70-80%, the rest is the knowledge content of the grade 10 and 11 programs.

Math, physics, chemistry, and biology include 40 questions divided into 3 parts: Part 1 includes 25 objective test questions (divided into 2 different formats: multiple choice objective test, with 1 correct answer, and multiple choice objective test, with more than 01 correct answer).

Part 2 consists of 5 multiple choice questions using synthetic data and part 3: 10 fill-in-the-blank questions.

The literature subject will consist of 22 questions and be divided into 3 parts: Part 1 - Reading comprehension with 20 multiple-choice objective test questions; Part 2 - Writing a short paragraph with 1 essay question and Part 3 - Writing an essay with 1 essay question.

For English, the exam structure remains the same as in previous years, with an approach to the format of the test assessing proficiency from level 3 to level 5 according to the 6-level foreign language proficiency framework for Vietnam. The language used in the exam is diverse, taken from many different fields.

The test time for math, physics, chemistry, biology, literature is 90 minutes and for English is 180 minutes. Candidates read and do the test on the computer.

Math sample test here.

Physics sample test here.

Chemistry sample test here.

Sample exam for students here.

Sample test for literature here.

Continue to expand the scale of the exam

From 2025, in order to expand the scale of organizing the exam to serve the enrollment work of Ho Chi Minh City University of Education and other universities, the Specialized Competency Assessment Exam is expected to be held at locations including Ho Chi Minh City, Long An, Gia Lai, Da Nang and continue to expand the number of higher education institutions using the results.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/cong-bo-de-thi-danh-gia-nang-luc-chuyen-biet-theo-cau-truc-moi-tu-nam-2025-20240815160034979.htm