Reduce pressure on candidates
The 2025 high school graduation exam is scheduled to take place at the end of June 2025, at the same time as the exams of previous years, but the difference is that the number of exam sessions and subjects have been reduced. Specifically, next year's high school graduation exam will have only 3 exam sessions, 1 exam session less than in 2024; including: 1 exam session for literature, 1 exam session for math and 1 exam session for an optional exam with 2 subjects.
Candidates can choose 2 subjects from the following subjects: physics, chemistry, biology, history, geography, economic and legal education, information technology, industrial technology, agricultural technology, foreign languages (including English, Russian, French, Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean). To create maximum conditions for candidates, the Ministry of Education and Training continues to allow them to register for a foreign language exam other than the foreign language they are studying in high school.
From 2025, for the first time, the Ministry of Education and Training has stipulated that foreign candidates can use Vietnamese language certificates to exempt them from the literature exam in the recognition of high school graduation. This content aims to create favorable conditions for considering graduation recognition for foreigners studying general education programs in Vietnam while still ensuring basic knowledge of literature through studying literature in class and taking exams to obtain Vietnamese language certificates.
Not only that, foreign language certificates are still used to exempt from exams in graduation recognition but cannot be converted into 10 points in graduation recognition as before. This is an innovation but still creates conditions for candidates who have previously had foreign language certificates to be converted into graduation scores (if not applying for university admission with foreign languages).
Sharing about the new points in the high school graduation exam regulations from 2025, Nguyen Hanh Nguyen, a high school student in Ba Dinh district, said: the exam regulations care about all students; especially the reduction of exam subjects and exam sessions. "We have reduced a lot of pressure and find the high school graduation exam easier than before; from there, our spirit is also extremely excited and we focus our energy on studying and reviewing," Hanh Nguyen said.
Regarding university admissions in 2025, the Ministry of Education and Training still stipulates that the registration period is after candidates have their high school graduation exam results. Based on the high school graduation exam results, candidates can calculate, choose, and adjust their admission registration wishes in accordance with their achieved scores to increase their chances of admission. Candidates applying for university admissions in 2025 will also be given favorable conditions when the number of wishes is not limited. They can register their wishes for many different majors and schools according to the principle of majors, professions, and schools that they like first.
Increase fairness
In order to ensure the rights and convenience of candidates in the transition period between the two programs (General Education Program 2018 and General Education Program 2006), the 2025 high school graduation exam will have 2 types of exam questions. Candidates who have completed the general education program before 2025 but have not graduated will take the exam according to the exam questions of the General Education Program 2006. Candidates who are studying in grade 12 in the 2024-2025 school year will take the exam according to the exam questions of the General Education Program 2018.
This decision of the Ministry of Education and Training has relieved the worries and concerns of many candidates and public opinion about the fact that candidates who have not graduated from high school in 2024 (or previous years) may encounter difficulties when having to take the graduation exam with candidates studying under the new program.
For candidates who have a high school diploma or intermediate diploma and wish to take the high school graduation exam in 2025 as a basis for admission registration, they can choose to take the exam according to one of two exam questions. From 2026, the Ministry of Education and Training will organize the high school graduation exam with only one type of exam.
This year's graduation exam will use a combination of process assessment scores (report cards) and exam results in graduation recognition at a ratio of 50-50. The average report card scores of previous years will be calculated based on weight.
The increase in the rate of using process assessment scores from 30% to 50% is to more closely assess the learners' capacity according to the 2018 General Education Program (including many other capacities that the graduation exam does not fully assess). In addition, the report card scores of grades 10 and 11 are also used (with a smaller weight of grade 12) instead of only grade 12 as before. This change has the effect of promoting teaching and learning right from when students enter high school.
According to candidates, not converting foreign language certificates (for example, IELTS 4.0 or higher is converted to 10 points for graduation consideration) is also a way to ensure fairness for all candidates in graduation consideration; not only for candidates in remote areas, areas without conditions to take foreign language certificate exams, but also for candidates who possess certificates; because clearly, candidates with IELTS 4.0 certificates are different from candidates with IELTS 8.5.
Expressing her opinion on this new score, Nguyen Ha Anh, a 12th grade student at a high school in Thanh Xuan district, said: "I have an IELTS certificate of 7.5. To achieve that score, I spent a lot of time studying with a high determination. And I don't feel comfortable if, in the graduation exam, my IELTS conversion score is the same as a friend who got IELTS 4.0. Fortunately, that didn't happen this year."
In the regulation on bonus points, in the high school graduation exam from 2025, the Ministry of Education and Training also eliminated bonus points for vocational certificates for all candidates; eliminated bonus points for IT certificates, foreign languages, and intermediate vocational certificates for candidates in Continuing Education. This is to be consistent with the 2018 General Education Program, and at the same time create equality because students graduating from both formal and continuing education systems are all awarded the same type of graduation certificate.
According to the Ministry of Education and Training, the exam plan is built on three groups of principles: closely following the policies of the Party, National Assembly, and Government; closely following relevant regulations of the current Law on Education, Law on Higher Education, and the goals of the 2018 general education program.
Along with that, the exam plan also ensures the inheritance and promotion of valuable experiences accumulated in the 2015-2023 period; proactively receives and applies international achievements and experiences in innovating high school graduation exams and aims to ensure fairness for all candidates.
Source: https://kinhtedothi.vn/ky-thi-tot-nghiep-thpt-nam-2025-tang-cong-bang-giam-ap-luc.html
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