Ministry of Education and Training announces conversion framework between university admission methods

The Ministry of Education and Training has just issued guidelines for university admissions in 2025, providing specific guidance on the framework for converting equivalent scores between admission methods.

When developing equivalence conversion rules, training institutions must comply with the following principles: ensuring equivalence; based on actual input requirements, equivalence conversion rules must be linked to the specific requirements of the training industry/program.

The main criteria used for admission in each admission method must focus on assessing the basic knowledge and core competencies required by the field of study; be fair, transparent, public, and consistent; ensure scientific and practicality; and be simple and easy to understand.

Candidates learn about admission information in March. Photo: Nam Tran

The conversion framework provides the score ranges of individual tests such as ability assessment tests, thinking assessment tests (APT, HSA, TSA...) and the score ranges of appropriate high school graduation exam subject combinations according to the percentile method (a quantity used to estimate the proportion of data in a data set falling in a region higher or lower than a given value) based on the analysis of the test results of candidates with both individual test 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 follows:

Source: Ministry of Education and Training

The responsibility of training institutions is to determine the graduation exam subject combinations that are appropriate to the characteristics of the individual exam organized by the unit and to recommend that other institutions can use them, clarifying which combination is most suitable. Announce the percentile of the results of the individual exam in 2025 before May 31; no later than June 30 for exams with results announced after May 31.

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 appropriate subject combinations, no later than 3 days after announcing the 2025 high school graduation exam results.

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) × (HSA2 – HSA3) / (A2 – A3)

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.

Regarding the framework for converting admission scores from high school academic results (report card scores), the Ministry of Education and Training affirms that it does not reflect the assessment results on a unified national assessment scale, so building a common conversion framework is meaningless.

However, the Ministry 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.

Based on the principles and conversion frameworks above, training institutions develop conversion tables and conversion formulas for each program, industry, industry group or training field, specifically as follows: select exams and subject combinations suitable for the admission methods of the program, industry, industry group or training field.

For each individual test used, a separate table should be created. Each conversion table should only use the most appropriate subject combination (convert other combinations based on the difference in scores).

It is possible to divide the score ranges into more detailed ranges, 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.

Develop conversion tables and formulas for admission scores based on exams not organized by domestic training institutions (e.g. SAT, ACT...) using appropriate methods, recommending the use of the percentile method.

Specific bases for training institutions to analyze statistical data (admission data from previous years, academic results of students admitted from different admission methods, admission combinations, exam score distributions, etc.); consider the nature, difficulty, score scale, score distribution and characteristics of candidate groups of each admission method, exam score results, admission combinations when building conversion tables and conversion formulas.

Nghiem Hue

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