On March 9, the National Economics University organized the program "A day as a student" to answer candidates' questions related to the school's enrollment this year.

Informing candidates, Dr. Le Anh Duc, Head of Training Management Department, National Economics University, said that one of the 7 new points of this year's enrollment regulations is expected to be that the Ministry of Education and Training requires schools to convert the equivalence between admission methods to a single scale. This means that when converting, schools will no longer divide the quota for each method like every year.

Many students wonder how the school will convert scores to avoid disadvantages for each candidate. In response to this question, Mr. Duc said that this year the school plans to continue enrolling students using different methods such as: Considering high school graduation exam scores, combining admission for groups of candidates such as students with SAT, ACT certificates; students with test scores to assess their abilities, assess their thinking; combining high school graduation exam scores with international English certificates...

Regardless of the method, these scores are converted to a 30-point scale, and the school will then take the highest score to consider admission equally and fairly among all candidates.

“Suppose a candidate has many different starting points such as a high school graduation exam score of 28, an IELTS score of 7.0, and a Hanoi National University aptitude test score of 90. Like last year, this candidate will submit an application and check many subjects, each subject will be considered separately by the school. Thus, a candidate can hold 3 admission notices.

However, this year that will no longer be the case because after converting to a 30-point scale, the school will use the highest score for admission consideration," said Mr. Duc.

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Candidates listen to admissions counseling at the National Economics University on the morning of March 9. Photo: Phuong Linh

According to Mr. Duc, the conversion formula is a difficult problem. Mr. Duc said that recently, the National Economics University has gathered a team of experts to research based on a combination of many criteria, such as learning outcomes and student output results in recent years, to find a suitable conversion coefficient.

“The equivalence between methods is understood as the equivalence between learning abilities, not the equivalence in terms of numbers.

For example, a candidate who scores 1500 on the SAT, in the top 5% of the best candidates in that exam, when converting, the school will have a way to calculate so that it is equivalent and does not disadvantage the candidate, for example, converting to the top 5% of candidates with the highest high school graduation exam scores.

Of course, if we survey previous years, those who are in the top SAT score of 1500 or higher but have worse academic results than those who graduate from high school with 28 points or higher, we will have to consider that 1500 SAT points cannot correspond to 28 points for them.

Dr. Le Anh Duc said that the National Economics University has basically calculated the appropriate conversion formula and is expected to announce it to candidates at the end of March. After the announcement, the school may ask candidates for their opinions to see if they are satisfied with those conversions.

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