Many universities plan to reduce or eliminate high school transcript admission in 2025

Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry and Trade plans to reserve a maximum of 20% of its enrollment quota for considering high school transcripts in the 2025 admission season, a 10% decrease compared to 2024.

Explaining the reduction in enrollment quotas, Mr. Pham Thai Son, Director of the School Admissions and Communications Center, said that the academic records of public and private high schools are often uneven, with a large gap. "This leads to unfairness in admissions," Mr. Son said.

In 2025, Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry and Trade will reserve 50-60% of its admission quota based on high school graduation exam scores. The rest of the quota will be based on the competency assessment scores of Ho Chi Minh City National University and Ho Chi Minh City University of Education.

Regarding the admission combinations, the school plans to use no more than 4 combinations for each major, with Mathematics being the main subject. For Economic Law, English Language and Chinese Language, the main subject is Literature. Informatics can be included in the admission combinations for the majors of Information Technology, Information Security and Data Science.

Many universities plan to reduce or eliminate high school transcript admissions in 2025. (Illustration photo)

Since 2024 , the National Economics University has stopped considering admission based on high school transcripts. According to Associate Professor Dr. Bui Duc Trieu, Head of the Training Management Department, the school's viewpoint is to gradually reduce dependence on high school results in admission.

"Over the years, the school has found that most of the excellent students in specialized schools (the group eligible for admission based on their academic records) are eligible for admission based on international certificates or their own exam scores. Therefore, eliminating the consideration of academic records will reduce the virtual rate, because a candidate can use many methods," said Mr. Trieu.

In 2025, the National Economics University plans to maintain 3 admission methods stable compared to 2024, including: direct admission (2%); combined admission (83%) and admission based on high school graduation exam results in 2025 (15%, down 3% compared to 2024).

With the method of using the high school graduation exam results in 2025, the National Economics University will only use 4 combinations: A00 (Math, Physics, Chemistry), A01 (Math, Physics, English), D01 (Math, Literature, English) and D07 (Math, Chemistry, English) instead of 9 combinations as in 2024.

This year's 12th graders are the first batch of candidates to take the 2025 high school graduation exam under the new general education program. Candidates will take 4 subjects instead of 6 as before.

Of which, two compulsory subjects are Math and Literature; two optional subjects are from the following subjects: Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Literature, Geography, History, Economic and Legal Education, Information Technology, Technology and Foreign Languages ​​(English, German, Russian, Japanese, French, Chinese, Korean). There are a total of 36 subject combinations for the high school graduation exam.

Literature will still be tested in essay format with a time limit of 120 minutes. The remaining subjects will be tested in multiple choice format, with Math taking 90 minutes and the remaining subjects taking 50 minutes.

The exam is organized nationwide with the same questions, same exam sessions, and same time according to regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training.

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