Admission scores for grade 10 at some private schools have increased sharply.

Marie Curie Hanoi School has just announced the admission scores for grade 10 for the 2023-2024 school year. Accordingly, the first round of admission scores for My Dinh campus (Nam Tu Liem District) is up to 41 points, 3 points higher than in 2022; Van Phu campus (Ha Dong District) is 38 points, 2 points higher than last year.

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Some other autonomous or private schools in Hanoi also have a higher admission score this year, but less so. For example, Phan Huy Chu High School - Dong Da, announced that the admission score for the first round this year is 41 points, an increase of 1 point compared to last year. However, the school will stop accepting applications when the quota is full, not all students with 41 points or more will be accepted.

Although the benchmark scores have increased slightly, many private schools will open up more options for students who score below 40 points. Ta Quang Buu High School announced that the benchmark score for the first round is 38.5, an increase of 0.5 points compared to last year.

Dao Duy Tu High School announces that students who achieve 36 points or higher; no semester with average academic performance and good conduct or lower will be accepted; students who achieve 30 to 35.5 points can submit their application within 3 days for review.

Nguyen Binh Khiem High School will accept applications on July 2 for students who have scored 35 points or more. Huynh Thuc Khang High School will accept applications from students who have scored 28 to 34 points; from now until the quota is filled; students who have scored 34 points will be admitted immediately.

A parent, Ms. NH, said that her child passed the second choice to enter a public school, but the family decided to let her study in grade 10 at Marie Curie School, Van Phu campus (Ha Dong). She got 38 points, but the past 2 days have been very "heartbreaking" because she did not know if she had enough points to pass because she knew for sure that this year the standard score would increase.

Ms. NH said: "Yesterday, my younger brother came to submit his application for admission at Van Phu campus, had to get a number, and waited in a long line. Many of the children had scores from 39 to 40 or higher, so I was worried. Luckily, today the standard scores were announced and my child had just enough points to pass."

However, many parents also expressed regret because the school's benchmark score at My Dinh campus increased unexpectedly. Mr. NL said that his daughter scored 40 points, compared to last year's benchmark score of 38 points, this year she got 2 points more.

"When we first learned the scores, my family was quite reassured because if the school's admission score increased like the average of top public schools in Hanoi, the highest increase would only be 2 points. However, this afternoon when the official announcement was made, the first round score was 41 points, the second round (if any) was 40 points, so hope was quite slim," Mr. NL shared.

In the public high school benchmark score table announced by the Hanoi Department of Education and Training, the entire city has 18 public high schools with benchmark scores of 40 or higher, and nearly 100 remaining schools with benchmark scores of 40 or lower.

Why private school benchmark scores increase?

In addition to objective reasons such as the quota for admission to grade 10 of public high schools not increasing and the average exam score this year being higher, the increase in the admission scores of some private schools is also due to the attraction of the school's reputation and the changing perception of parents about private schools.

Ms. NL, whose child studied for 9 years at Marie Curie School and passed the entrance exam to a top public high school in Hanoi, said that she and her family still want to continue studying at Marie Curie School. "Many people also asked me why my daughter excelled in her studies but did not let her take the entrance exam to a specialized school. I also thought about it and asked my daughter's opinion, but she said she wanted to continue studying and develop her strengths at the school where she had studied for 9 years," Ms. NL said.

A representative of the Admissions Committee of Marie Curie School said: like every year, the school printed a total of 3,500 sets of application documents, but this year because parents bought them in droves, the school had to print another 3,500 sets right after the first day to make up for it. On the first day of receiving them (July 1), there were 2,000 applications with scores for admission to the school, many of which had scores above 40. After 2 days, the school had to set the above standard score. Even though it knew that many students who wanted to apply would not be able to get into the school.

This year is also the year that the number of students entering grade 10 in Hanoi has increased while the quota for public high schools is still approximately the same as previous years. This makes students who want to enter private schools, especially private schools with "brand names", have to compete more intensely.

Request private schools not to repeat benchmarking like "playing stocks"

A few years ago, due to the sudden increase in demand from parents to apply for grade 10, a private high school in Hanoi applied a standard score by session, in the afternoon the standard score increased compared to the morning, and the next day it increased compared to the previous day, making parents extremely upset. At this year's first-grade admissions conference, the leader of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training reiterated this phenomenon and requested that private schools determine appropriate standard scores. If there is an adjustment, it should be a downward adjustment to increase opportunities for students, and not repeat the situation of standard scores increasing and decreasing like "playing the stock market".

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