Ministry of Education and Training announces framework for converting university admission methods in 2025

The Ministry of Education and Training announced the conversion framework between university admission methods (Photo: Trinh Nguyen).

The Ministry of Education and Training has just issued guidelines for university admissions in 2025, providing specific guidance on the equivalent conversion framework for admission scores, input thresholds between admission methods, and admission combinations when training institutions simultaneously use multiple admission methods and admission combinations for a training major/group of majors.

The Ministry emphasized that when developing equivalence conversion rules, training institutions need to comply with the following principles: Ensuring equivalence; based on real input requirements; fairness, transparency, publicity, and consistency; ensuring scientific and practicality; simplicity and ease of understanding.

Conversion framework between types of exam scores

The conversion framework provides the score ranges of individual exams (APT, HSA, TSA...) and the score ranges of appropriate high school graduation exam subject combinations according to the percentile method based on the analysis of the exam results of candidates with both individual exam scores and corresponding graduation exam subject combination scores in 2025. The score ranges are ranked according to the top 0.5%, 1%, 3%, 5%, 10%... as shown in (Table 1).

(Source: Ministry of Education and Training).

The Ministry further explained that, according to the analysis of the technical advisory group established under Decision No. 1104/QD-BGDDT, the percentile method is recommended for use in cases of converting scores between exams to ensure candidate rankings, fairness, transparency and stability across exam periods and admission years.

"Percentile Equating Method: This method is based on the score distribution of the two exams, determining the score at the same percentile to convert.

In this way, percentiles convert scores into percentile levels, which help indicate the candidate's position in the overall score of the group. Percentiles are used to compare candidates in relation to other candidates taking the exam. This conversion method converts scores into percentiles, that is, places a candidate's score in a specific percentile according to the distribution of exam scores," the Ministry explained.

For training institutions organizing entrance exams and independent exams, the Ministry of Education and Training requires that graduation exam subject combinations be determined that are suitable for the characteristics of the separate exam organized by the training institution and recommended that other training institutions can use it, clarifying which combination is most suitable.

These units must announce the percentiles of the 2025 individual exam results (X0, X1... in Table 1) before May 31; no later than June 30 for exams with results announced after May 31.

Candidates taking the 2024 high school graduation exam (Photo: Hai Long).

Units need to coordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training to analyze the high school graduation exam results of candidates who have their own exam results, on that basis, announce the score ranges of the appropriate subject combinations (A0, A1..., B0, B1... in Table 1), no later than 3 days after announcing the high school graduation exam results in 2025.

Based on these figures, the admission scores and entrance thresholds of each specific industry and group of industries will be converted linearly within each score range. For example, the admission score according to the A00 combination (T_A00) in the range A2 - A3 will be converted to the admission score according to the HSA exam score (T_HSA) according to the formula:

T_HSA = HSA3 + (T_A00 - A3) x (HSA2 - HSA3) / (A2 - A3)

Conversion framework between combinations using high school graduation exam scores

The general admission support system maintains the form of entering the difference in scores between the original admission combination and other admission combinations for a major of training institutions as in previous years.

Determining the difference in admission scores between popular combinations will be based on comparing the score distribution announced by the Ministry of Education and Training after the 2025 high school graduation exam results are available according to each admission score range.

Framework for converting admission scores from high school academic results (report card scores)

High school report card scores do not reflect assessment results on a unified national assessment scale, so building a common conversion framework is meaningless.

However, the Ministry of Education and Training will publish statistics on the correlation between high school graduation exam scores and average high school subject scores, on that basis, training institutions will determine the conversion rules equivalent to admission scores and entrance thresholds.

Instructions for applying the conversion framework

Based on the above principles and conversion framework, training institutions develop conversion tables and conversion formulas for each program, industry, industry group or training field.

Specifically, select the tests and subject combinations that are suitable for the admission methods of the program, major, group of majors, and training fields. For each specific test used, a separate table should be created. Each conversion table should only use the most suitable subject combination (convert other combinations based on the difference in scores).

The Ministry of Education and Training allows schools to divide the score ranges in more detail, or adjust the score ranges in the conversion framework in Table 1 to suit the requirements of each training program, industry, and group of industries.

The 2025 high school graduation exam will have many new points (Photo: Huyen Nguyen).

Units must develop conversion tables and formulas for admission scores based on exams not organized by domestic training institutions (for example, SAT, ACT, etc.) using appropriate methods, it is recommended to use the percentile method.

The specific bases for training institutions to implement are based on analysis of statistical data (admission data from previous years, academic results of students admitted from different admission methods and combinations, exam score distribution...).

Training institutions must consider the nature, difficulty, scale, score distribution and characteristics of candidate groups of each admission method, exam score results, and admission combinations when building conversion tables and conversion formulas.

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