Ensuring transparency and fairness

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) issued Circular No. 06/2025/TT-BGDDT dated March 19, 2025 amending and supplementing a number of articles in the Regulations on university and college admissions for the Early Childhood Education sector. These adjustments aim to enhance transparency, fairness and improve the quality of admissions.

No more early admission; must use the entire 12th grade academic results for admission

According to the new Regulations, there will be no more early admission. In fact, in recent years, applying early admission has made the admission period longer, and candidates have to go to many training institutions to request confirmation of their high school results, leading to a waste of social resources. In particular, many training institutions have called for early admission in large numbers but the number of candidates enrolling is very small, showing that early admission is not effective.

In addition, when training institutions conduct early admissions using the learning results from 1 to 5 semesters of high school instead of using the results of the entire 12th grade year (semester 2), it affects the learning process and high school graduation exams of students, thereby affecting their learning capacity at university level. Therefore, to ensure that students are fully equipped with the necessary basic knowledge to study university programs, from this year the Regulations stipulate that early admissions will no longer be conducted .

The new regulations also stipulate that when using high school academic results for admission, candidates must use their entire 12th grade academic results. In addition, to ensure that the contribution of the entire 12th grade academic results is not too low when calculating the admission score, the regulations stipulate that the weight of the 12th grade academic results for admission is not less than 25% .

Publicly announce the rules for converting equivalent admission scores to ensure fairness and transparency.

The new regulation stipulates that training institutions using multiple admission methods must determine the equivalent conversion rules for the input threshold and admission scores of the admission methods, admission methods, and admission combinations. According to the general instructions of the Ministry of Education and Training. Thus, schools do not have to allocate quotas for admission methods to avoid risks when considering admission according to the quotas of each method such as the difference in scores between methods being too large, some methods have very high admission scores, admission scores based on transcripts are lower than admission scores based on high school graduation exam results , etc.

In addition, to ensure that candidates have full information during the application process, the Regulations stipulate that the equivalence conversion rules must be publicly announced at the latest at the same time as the admission quality assurance threshold is announced.

Candidates do not need to choose a method code, combination code... they just need to clearly identify the program, major, training group and training institution they want to study to decide to register. The general enrollment support system of the Ministry of Education and Training will use the method with the highest result of the candidate for admission consideration.

Unlimited number of admission combinations

2025 is the first year that biology courses under the new general education program (General Education Program 2018) will take the high school graduation exam. The Ministry of Education and Training has issued the Regulations on high school graduation exams from 2025, which increase the number of subjects that students can choose. Therefore, to ensure the opportunity for students from different regions to be admitted, the Regulations remove the requirement for training programs, each major and each program has a maximum of 4 admission combinations; there is no limit on the number of admission combinations.

However, in order to ensure the quality and knowledge foundation necessary for university study, the Regulation stipulates that the subject combination used for admission includes at least 3 suitable subjects, including Mathematics or Literature with a weighted score of not less than 25%. From 2026, the common subjects of the combination must contribute at least 50% of the weighted score.

Use appropriate foreign language certificates to convert into foreign language scores in admissions.

In recent years, there has been a situation where some training institutions have abused the use of foreign language certificates in the admission process, even using foreign language certificates as a criterion to determine the candidates' chances of admission; meanwhile, access to foreign language certificates varies between students in different regions. Therefore, the new Regulation stipulates that schools can convert foreign language certificates into foreign language subject scores to include in the admission subject group, but the foreign language subject scores converted from foreign language certificates have a weighted score that cannot exceed 50%.

With this regulation, candidates can still make the most of their strengths to increase their chances of being admitted to university while still ensuring fairness.

The total score does not exceed 10% of the maximum score of the assessment scale.

Besides the fact that there may be unfairness in admissions due to the abuse of admission based on foreign language certificates, the regulation of total scores Adding (bonus points, bonus points, incentive points) to different achievements and certificates of candidates (too) large can also lead to unfairness for candidates who do not have bonus points (for objective reasons, not because of ability) for the same admission. Therefore, the Regulations set a limit of total bonus points not exceeding 10% of the maximum score of the admission score scale (for example, with a 30-point scale, the maximum is 3 points) to create a fairer opportunity in admission. However, training institutions still have bonus points based on the characteristics of the training institution, the input requirements and the maximum exploitation of the candidates' own strengths.

Each candidate has the opportunity to achieve the maximum score on the scoring scale, but no candidate has a score (all types of bonus points and priority points) exceeding this maximum score.

* See Circular in attached file./.

Source: https://moet.gov.vn/tintuc/Pages/tin-tong-hop.aspx?ItemID=10393