The Ministry of Education and Training has announced the percentile table for 7 popular admission combinations based on the results of the 2025 high school graduation exam, including A00, A01, B00, C00, D01, C01, D07, to support schools in building a conversion table for admission benchmark scores.
However, because the Ministry of Education and Training does not issue a unified standard conversion formula, but allows each school to build its own conversion table. Therefore, the same original score, when converted, produces significantly different scores between schools.
For example, the Banking Academy uses the original combination D01 to perform the conversion. Candidates applying for admission with the combinations A00, D01, D07, D09, D14 will be applied the standard score equal to the original combination D01. Meanwhile, the combination C00, C03 has a higher admission score than the combination D01 by 2.5 points on a scale of 30.
The Diplomatic Academy has also announced the deviation between the admission combinations using the 2025 high school graduation exam results. Accordingly, the admission combination C00 will be 3 points higher than the admission combination D01, the remaining admission combination has no deviation in points.
According to the regulation of Hanoi University of Industry, candidates who get 100 points in the Hanoi National University's competency assessment exam will be converted to 24.25 points in the high school graduation exam. Meanwhile, Hanoi National University, the organization that organizes the competency assessment exam, converts 100 points to 27.25 points in the A00 combination; 26.5 points in the B00 combination; 27.75 points in the C00 combination and 24.25 points in the D01 combination.
In addition, many universities do not convert scores between admission groups by considering high school graduation exam scores, even though there are certain differences in the score distribution. This raises concerns about the difficulty of ensuring fairness between admission methods.
Dr. Hoang Ngoc Vinh, former Director of the Department of Vocational Education, Ministry of Education and Training, said that in theory, the Ministry of Education and Training requires schools to convert scores according to the percentile method to ensure fairness between admission methods. But in reality, the implementation of schools is very inconsistent and lacking in transparency when some schools publicly announce specific conversion tables, while others only give the final conversion results without clearly explaining the calculation method. With the same 8.0 grade point average, some schools convert it to 6.3 exam points, while others convert it to 7.0 points, the difference can be up to 1.5 points, or even more, causing confusion among students.
According to Mr. Vinh's analysis, when each school builds its own conversion scale from percentile to benchmark score, the scoreboard can easily become a maze, and candidates will be lost. Not standardizing, not publicizing statistical models, and not controlling errors will pose a potential risk of making it difficult to ensure fairness.
To effectively implement autonomous enrollment, Mr. Vinh said that the Ministry of Education and Training still needs to establish a unified technical reference framework, and at the same time build a centralized lookup portal where all schools must fully update the conversion method and equivalent score threshold. Only when information is transparent and easily accessible will learners truly have fair access.
Mr. Vu Khac Ngoc, a high school teacher in Hanoi, also expressed concern about the risk of difficulty in ensuring fairness between admission methods when with the results of separate exams, international foreign language certificates, academic transcripts... each training institution calculates in a different way and there are significant differences. For example, an IELTS 6.5 foreign language certificate is converted to 10 points by some training institutions, while some schools only convert it to 8 points; in some places candidates with IELTS certificates are given 4-5 priority points and some schools only add 1-2 points...
To rectify the lack of uniformity in converting benchmark scores between admission methods, the Ministry of Education and Training has just issued a document requiring universities to publish regulations on the difference in scores between admission combinations and rules for converting admission scores.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Education and Training requires schools to review the announcement of regulations on the difference in scores between admission groups and the rules for converting equivalent admission scores in line with the Ministry of Education and Training's instructions, ensuring fairness, transparency and accountability to candidates, parents and state management agencies. Training institutions will not be able to download admission data and information from the General Admission System if they have not publicly announced the equivalent conversion of admission scores.
The Ministry of Education and Training also requires schools to re-examine secondary criteria and admission data from previous years to determine the appropriate virtual rate. The goal is to ensure that the number of officially admitted candidates does not exceed the prescribed quota.
Along with that, continue to strengthen communication about fairness and transparency between admission methods and admission combinations; at the same time, promptly and thoroughly resolve candidates' recommendations and complaints and coordinate with other training institutions to support candidates who encounter errors. In particular, schools also need to strengthen internal inspection and control work and internal quality assurance activities throughout the admission process.
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