New points in separate university entrance exams in 2025

(Dan Tri) - In 2025, some universities' own exams such as thinking assessment and capacity assessment will have many new points.

Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU)

It is expected that the 2025 VNU Competency Assessment (HSA) exam will have 6 new points.

New points include: new exam structure (science or foreign language section); number of questions and how to ask questions in each topic; questions related to practical situations and works outside of textbooks; cluster questions appearing in all exam sections; candidates can choose the third exam section; adjusting the schedule for candidates registering for the exam for the first time to reduce network congestion like last year.

Specifically, according to Prof. Dr. Nguyen Tien Thao, Director of the Testing Center (VNU-Hanoi), the sample test structure for assessing capacity in 2025 includes 50 questions on mathematics and data processing, and 50 questions on literature and language. These are two mandatory parts of the HSA exam.

Students of Hanoi National University (Photo: VNU).

The HSA exam questions are approximately 75% 4-choice objective multiple choice questions and 25% fill-in-the-blank questions.

If last year, cluster questions only appeared in the language test, from 2025, the Hanoi National University's competency assessment test will add cluster questions in all test sections and exam topics. Cluster questions include general questions and specific questions to develop and assess candidates' competencies from low to high levels.

Cluster questions will exploit rich data sources, assess students' thinking in each field and across fields. These are changes in building a question bank for competency assessment exams.

Especially in 2025, the questions in the exam will not be arranged from easy to difficult but will be randomly shuffled according to a fixed matrix.

Ho Chi Minh City National University

Previously, Ho Chi Minh City National University announced new points in the 2025 capacity assessment exam.

Accordingly, from 2025, the structure of the National High School Graduation Exam will be adjusted to match the 2018 general education program. Specifically, the National High School Graduation Exam from 2025 of this unit will still include 120 multiple-choice objective questions with 150 minutes to complete and will be conducted on paper.

The 2025 exam will maintain the structure of the verbal and mathematical sections, while increasing the number of questions in these two sections to increase the reliability and discrimination of the exam.

The test score is converted by section. The maximum score of the test is 1,200 points, in which the maximum score for each component of the test is shown on the score sheet including: Vietnamese is 300 points, English is 300 points; Mathematics is 300 points and Scientific Thinking is 300 points.

According to Ho Chi Minh City National University, the exam from 2025 aims to accurately assess students' overall abilities, helping universities and colleges recruit suitable candidates; at the same time, ensuring fairness, creating equal opportunities in accessing higher education for all candidates, even when they choose different subjects in high school. This approach to the exam is also consistent with the combined admission orientation of member units of Ho Chi Minh City National University.

Candidates take the Hanoi University of Science and Technology's competency assessment exam (Photo: Duy Thanh).

Hanoi University of Science and Technology

In 2025, Hanoi University of Science and Technology plans to organize 3 rounds of thinking assessment exams on weekends, each round will have 3-4 testing teams at 30 locations. Thus, compared to last year, in 2025 Hanoi University of Science and Technology will reduce 3 exam rounds.

In addition to the previous testing sites, in 2025, Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) will open a new testing site to support students in the Northwestern provinces (test site in Lao Cai province).

The exam can accommodate about 75,000 candidates. Specific information on each exam session is as follows:

Round 1: Exam date 18-19/1/2025, registration opening date 1-6/12/2024

Round 2: Exam date 8-9/3/2025, registration opening date 1-6/2/2025

Round 3: Exam date 26-27/4/2025, registration opening date 1-6/4/2025

TSA exam registration system at: https://tsa.hust.edu.vn

The Hanoi University of Science and Technology's thinking assessment test consists of 3 parts: Mathematical thinking, reading comprehension and scientific thinking/problem solving. These are 3 independent tests.

Hanoi National University of Education:

Latest announcement from Hanoi National University of Education, the 2025 competency assessment exam will take place on May 17-18, 2025 (falling on Saturday and Sunday). Exam scores will be announced before June 15, 2025.

In particular, from 2026, it is expected that the competency assessment exam of Hanoi National University of Education (SPT) will add subjects of economics and law, information technology, and technology.

Exam registration time: From March 15 to April 15, 2025 at one of four exam locations: Hanoi National University of Education; Vinh University; Quy Nhon University; University of Education - University of Danang.

Candidates can register for exams in the following subjects: math, literature, English, physics, chemistry, biology, history, geography and use the exam results to apply for admission to various majors.
Regular university training according to the requirements of each university.

Each university specifies a different number and combination of exam subjects to obtain exam results and consider admission to training programs.

Therefore, candidates need to carefully study the admission plan of each school to register for the correct and sufficient number of subjects, suitable for their admission wishes.

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