Announcing the conversion framework between university admission methods

Candidates take the competency assessment exam at Ho Chi Minh City National University. (Photo: Thu Hoai/VNA)

In the document guiding university and college admissions issued on May 19, the Ministry of Education and Training has guided training institutions to develop rules for converting equivalent admission scores and input thresholds between admission methods and admission combinations when training institutions use multiple methods and combinations for a training major or group of majors at the same time.

Specifically, when developing equivalent conversion rules, training institutions need to ensure that the admission scores between admission methods and admission combinations of an admission code are equivalent in terms of meeting the input requirements of the corresponding training program, industry, and group of industries.

Based on the actual input requirements, the equivalence conversion rules must be linked to the specific requirements of the industry and training program. The main criteria used for admission in each admission method must focus on assessing the basic knowledge and core competencies required by the industry.

At the same time, the equivalence conversion rule must be developed objectively, announced in the admission information and posted publicly on the electronic information portal of the training institution according to regulations, applied uniformly to all candidates applying for the same major and training program; ensuring that all candidates are selected equally based on equivalent admission scores, regardless of the priority order of registration wishes.

Conversion rules must be built on scientific and practical grounds. Training institutions are responsible for explaining these grounds to relevant parties.

In addition, the rules need to be clearly designed and easy to understand so that candidates and society can grasp and monitor them, avoiding complicated formulas or unclear calculations that lead to misunderstandings.

Regarding the conversion framework between types of exam scores, the conversion framework provides the score ranges of individual exams (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 exam scores and corresponding graduation exam subject combination scores in 2025. The score ranges are ranked respectively according to the top 0.5%, 1%, 3%, 5%, 10%...

The Ministry of Education and Training stipulates the responsibility of training institutions organizing entrance exams and independent exams to determine graduation exam subject combinations suitable to the characteristics of the separate exams organized by the training institution and recommend that other training institutions can use them, clarifying which combination is most suitable.

Announce the percentile of the results of the 2025 individual exam before May 31, 2025; no later than June 30, 2025 for exams with results announced after May 31, 2025.

Training institutions 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 (A0, A1..., B0, B1...), 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 major and group of majors 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).

Regarding the conversion framework between combinations using high school graduation exam scores, the General Admission Support System maintains the form of entering the difference in scores between the original admission combination and other admission combinations for a major of training institutions as in previous years.

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.

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 the tests and subject combinations that are appropriate to the admission methods of the program, major, group of majors, and training fields. A separate table should be created for each specific test used. 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 to suit the requirements of each training program, industry, and group of industries.

Training institutions develop conversion tables and formulas for admission scores based on exams not organized by domestic training institutions (e.g. SAT, ACT...) using appropriate methods, it is recommended to use the percentile method.

The specific bases for training institutions to implement are: analyzing statistical data (admission data from previous years, academic results of students admitted from different admission methods, admission combinations, exam score distributions, etc.); considering the nature, difficulty, score 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./.

According to VNA

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