Ministry of Education and Training announces the conversion framework for scores of admission methods

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On May 19, the Ministry of Education and Training issued guidelines for university admissions in 2025, in which the ministry provided specific instructions on how to convert points equivalent to admission scores and entry thresholds between admission methods.

The Ministry requires training institutions to ensure equivalence when developing equivalence conversion rules; based on actual input requirements, equivalence conversion rules must be linked to 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.

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 based on the analysis of the exam 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:

The Ministryof Education and Training requires training institutions that organize entrance exams and independent exams to be responsible for determining graduation exam subject combinations that are suitable for the characteristics of the individual exam organized by the unit and recommending that other units can use them, clarifying which combination is most suitable.

These units must announce the percentile of the results of the 2025 individual exam before May 31; no later than June 30 for exams with results announced after May 31.

Based on these figures, the admission scores and entry 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) is in the range of A2 - A3 and 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 said that 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 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.

How to apply 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 as follows:

- Select exams and subject combinations suitable for the admission methods of the program, industry, industry group, and 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 implement such as analyzing statistical data (admission data from previous years, academic results of students admitted from different admission methods and combinations, exam score distribution...).

In addition, consider the nature, difficulty, scale, score distribution and characteristics of candidate groups of each admission method, exam score results, admission combinations when building the conversion table and conversion formula.

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