The Ministry of Education and Training issued Circular No. 24/2024/TT-BGDDT dated December 24, 2024 on Regulations on high school graduation exams.
Preparing for the High School Graduation Exam from 2025 according to the 2018 General Education Program with the difference of focusing on assessing learners' capacity instead of assessing knowledge and skills like previous Exams, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has actively prepared early, remotely and thoroughly.
The Prime Minister issued Directive No. 37/CT-TTg dated October 7, 2024 to strengthen the direction, coordination, and organization of the High School Graduation Exam and university and vocational education admissions in 2025.
The Ministry of Education and Training has carefully prepared and announced the high school graduation exam plan from 2025 as early as the end of 2023; issued the exam structure format, reference exam questions for all graduation exam subjects in a direction suitable for assessing students' abilities; trained teachers nationwide on exam questions, exam organization, technical training for localities; increased large-scale testing of the application of information technology in all stages of the exam, etc.
In order to have a legal framework for organizing the Exam for the purpose of graduation assessment, assessing teaching and learning nationwide and serving the purpose of university and college admissions, the Ministry of Education and Training has developed, widely consulted and officially issued Circular No. 24/2024/TT-BGDDT dated December 24, 2024 on the Regulations on High School Graduation Exams from 2025.
The newly issued Regulations, in addition to inheriting the content of the Regulations that have been implemented smoothly and stably in recent years, especially in 2023 and 2024, have the following notable new points:
1. The exam will be organized into 3 sessions , including: 1 Literature session, 1 Math session and 1 optional exam session. Candidates will be arranged according to the optional exam combination to optimize the exam room and score.
Compared to previous years, 1 exam session and 2 exam subjects were reduced, thereby reducing pressure and social costs while still ensuring the quality of the exam.
2. 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 score of each year is calculated based on weight.
Increasing the rate of using process assessment scores (report cards) from 30% to 50% to more closely assess learners' abilities according to the 2018 General Education Program (including many other abilities that the graduation exam does not fully assess). In addition, report card scores from 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.
3. Foreign language certificates will continue to be used for exam exemption in graduation recognition consideration but will not be converted into 10 points in graduation recognition consideration as before; the graduation score calculation formula does not include foreign language points in this case.
This approach continues to encourage foreign language learning but aims to be more equitable in graduation. For example, previously, students with an IELTS 4.0 certificate were also converted to a score of 10, just like students with an IELTS 8.5 score.
4. Regarding incentive points: Eliminate the bonus points for vocational certificates for all candidates; eliminate the bonus points for IT certificates, foreign languages, and intermediate vocational degrees for candidates in Continuing Education.
This content is to be consistent with the 2018 General Education Program, and at the same time create equality because students graduating from formal and continuing education systems are all awarded the same type of graduation certificate.
5. Allow foreign candidates to use Vietnamese language certificates to be exempted from the Literature exam in the consideration of high school graduation recognition.
This content aims to facilitate the recognition of graduation 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.
6. For the first time, the High School Graduation Exam has an additional method of transporting exam papers from the exam council's exam paper printing location to the exam paper printing locations of 63 provinces and cities via the encrypted and secure transmission system of the Government Cipher Committee.
This is an important step forward in applying technology to key stages of the exam organization process. This new method of delivering the original exam papers helps to quickly and promptly transfer the original exam papers, reducing the time and personnel required to transport the exam papers as the traditional method is currently applied; at the same time, this is also an early, remote and important preparation step in implementing the exam plan according to the announced roadmap for converting from paper-based exams to computer-based exams.
* See Circular in attached file./.
Source: https://moet.gov.vn/tintuc/Pages/tin-tong-hop.aspx?ItemID=10149
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