Ministry of Education and Training guides conversion of university admission scores in 2025

According to the guidelines for implementing university and college admissions in 2025 recently issued by the Ministry of Education and Training , candidates can register their university admission wishes from July 16 to 5:00 p.m. on July 28, 2025.

During this time, candidates can register, adjust, and add admission wishes an unlimited number of times. The Ministry of Education and Training reminds candidates to register their admission wishes for majors/programs online on the Ministry's general admission system or on the National Public Service Portal.

Also in this guide, the Ministry of Education and Training provides 3 types of equivalent score conversion frameworks.

First is the conversion between types of exam scores such as high school graduation exam scores, university aptitude and thinking assessment exams.

Accordingly, the conversion framework provides the score ranges of individual exams and of subject combinations for high school graduation exams according to the percentile method. This method is based on the score distribution of the two exams, determining the scores at the same percentile for conversion.

For example, schools take the top 1% of candidates from two exams. The score to reach the top 1% according to the results of the competency assessment exam and the high school graduation exam will be the equivalent level.

The Ministry of Education and Training will analyze the exam results of candidates who have both their own exam scores and the corresponding graduation exam subject combinations of 2025. The responsibility of universities that organize their own exams is to determine the graduation exam subject combinations that are suitable for the characteristics of the exams they organize and recommend other schools to use them, clarifying which combination is most suitable.

Schools must also announce the percentile of the results of their own exams in 2025 (X0, X1 in the table), coordinate with the Ministry to analyze the graduation exam results of candidates who have taken their own exams, then announce the score ranges of the appropriate subject groups (A0, A1, B0, B1... in the table). This must be done no later than 3 days after the graduation exam results are available.

Based on this data, the admission score and entrance threshold of each major will be converted linearly within each score range.

The second is the conversion framework between combinations using high school graduation exam scores. The Ministry said that the general admission support system will enter the difference in scores between the original admission combination and other combinations for a major of the schools.

Determining the difference in admission scores between popular combinations will be based on comparing the score distribution announced by the Ministry after the graduation exam results are available, according to each admission score range.

Third is the framework for converting admission scores from transcripts. The Ministry said that transcript scores are not uniform nationwide. However, the Ministry will publish statistical data correlating the scores of graduation exams with the average scores of subjects in high school. On that basis, universities will determine the conversion rules.

Based on the principles and conversion framework according to the above instructions, schools build conversion tables and conversion formulas for each industry.

Specifically, schools will choose exams and subject combinations that are suitable for the industry's admission methods. For each individual exam, the school needs to create a separate table. Each conversion table should only use the most suitable subject combination.

Schools can divide the score ranges into more detailed ranges, or adjust the score ranges in the conversion framework to suit the requirements of each industry.

With other admission methods , the Ministry of Education and Training recommends that schools develop appropriate conversion tables and recommends using the percentile method.

The basis for building the conversion table is the enrollment data of previous years along with the students' learning results, combination, score distribution of exams, difficulty, score scale and characteristics of candidate groups according to each method.

2025 is the first year that the Ministry requires equivalent conversion of input thresholds and admission scores of admission methods and combinations according to the Ministry's general instructions.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/bo-gd-dt-huong-dan-quy-doi-diem-xet-tuyen-dai-hoc-2025-196250519211201609.htm