Ministry of Education and Training worries about candidates using AI to cheat on 2025 high school graduation exam

The above content was stated by Deputy Minister of Education and Training Pham Ngoc Thuong at the training conference on inspection and examination of high school graduation exams held today (May 27).

The Deputy Minister emphasized that the 2025 high school graduation exam has many unique features compared to previous years. This is the first exam organized according to the new generaleducation program with about 1.17 million candidates. In addition, there are 25,000 candidates taking the exam according to the old program. The number of candidates is spread across 63 provinces and cities.

This year's exam has many new points in terms of invigilation, room arrangement, printing, and transportation of exam papers. The exam takes place in the context of the country reorganizing local governments at two levels; inspectors of departments and ministries are reassigned to the Government Inspectorate , and district police are reassigned to commune police. In order to avoid interruptions in the organization of the exam before, during, and after, localities must be proactive, ensuring security and safety must be given top priority.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Pham Ngoc Thuong spoke this morning.

The Deputy Minister reiterated the viewpoint of "4 rights" and "3 no's", in which the "4 rights" are: correct regulations and exam instructions; correct and complete procedures; correct assigned positions, responsibilities and tasks; and correct timing to promptly handle unusual situations and incidents.

The "3 no's" are: no negligence, subjectivity; no excessive stress and pressure; no arbitrarily handling unusual situations and incidents, which have been thoroughly implemented in the organization of the 2024 high school graduation exam and emphasized that this is still the spirit of the 2025 exam.

The Ministry of Education and Training has coordinated with the professional departments of the Ministry of Public Security such as A03, A04, A05, A06 to train in fraud prevention, especially high-tech fraud, using artificial intelligence - AI.

Colonel Pham Long Au, Deputy Director of the Department of Technical Services (A06), Ministry of Public Security, emphasized that the use of high-tech devices for cheating is increasingly sophisticated and worrying. The devices are often tiny headphones, disguised cameras, and smart communication devices, which pose a big challenge to exam invigilators.

According to Mr. Au, cheating is not only committed by candidates but also by teachers and parents. Candidates cheat in the exam room. Teachers intervene in stages such as printing, transporting, editing, and raising scores to gain illegal profits. Parents assist and bribe in many ways to get preferential treatment for their children.

"Therefore, in addition to organizing training to help identify and detect, localities need to select exam invigilators with experience and a high sense of responsibility," he said.

Prof. Dr. Huynh Van Chuong, Director of Department of Quality Management.

Regarding the inspection work for the exam, Prof. Dr. Huynh Van Chuong, Director of the Department of Quality Management, Ministry of Education and Training, said that the difference this year is that the exam sites have two groups of candidates according to two exam programs (candidates of the 2018 program and candidates of the old program).

Although there are 25,000 candidates for the old program who will take the exam, according to a survey by the Ministry of Education and Training, most of the exam sites are organized specifically for this group, so the inspection must be very careful to avoid confusion. The inspection team must carefully study both the regulations for the 2018 and 2006 programs. Candidates taking the exam under the 2018 program will be different from previous years because there are many subjects in the exam room, so there are many exam codes, causing difficulties for the exam supervisors, Mr. Chuong said.

Ha Cuong

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