Prime Minister's telegram on organizing the High School Graduation Exam and Primary School Admissions in 2025

The 2025 high school graduation exam is more special than previous years: It is the first year to organize the high school graduation exam and the entrance exam for the first level of generaleducation according to the 2018 General Education Program with many innovations; organized in the context that the whole country is implementing the arrangement and organization of the 2-level local government apparatus and changes in the arrangement of the inspection agency system; the number of candidates is higher; organized for both students studying according to the 2018 General Education Program and students studying according to the 2006 General Education Program. Meanwhile, the use of high-tech devices to cheat in the exam is increasingly sophisticated and complicated.

In order to organize the Exam and admission at the beginning of the school year safely, seriously, thoughtfully, smoothly, objectively, ensuring reliability, creating high consensus in society, the Prime Minister requests all levels, sectors, and localities, according to their functions, tasks, and authority, to focus on synchronously and effectively implementing tasks and solutions to organize the Exam and admission at the beginning of the school year; strictly implement Directive No. 37/CT-TTg dated October 7, 2024 of the Prime Minister on strengthening the direction, coordination, and organization of the High School Graduation Exam and university and vocational education admission in 2025; promote responsibility, be close in direction, be specific and thorough in organization and implementation, and create the most favorable conditions for candidates, families, and educational institutions.

Propose that the Secretaries of the Provincial and Municipal Party Committees and request the Chairmen of the People's Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities to take full responsibility for the preparation and organization of the Examination and admission to the first level in the locality; issue a local implementation plan assigning specific tasks in the spirit of 6 clear principles: "clear people, clear work, clear responsibility, clear authority, clear time, clear results" in conjunction with the national roadmap for implementing the Party and State's policy on arranging 2-level local governments;

Directing local Party committees, authorities and relevant organizations to effectively coordinate with the education sector to carefully prepare necessary conditions, have contingency plans for all unusual situations, and not allow any stage of the Exam and admission to occur without close management and supervision and without a responsible person;

Direct the Provincial Inspectorate to urgently develop inspection and examination plans at all stages and steps, especially the stage of assigning responsibilities to participating organizations and individuals; pay attention to ensuring that the activities of relevant agencies and units in organizing the Examination and admission at the beginning of the school year are not affected.

The Ministry of Education and Training shall preside over and coordinate with ministries, agencies and localities to continue reviewing guiding documents and activities on organizing the Exam to provide specific and detailed instructions for localities and educational institutions to ensure close adherence to the practical situation in the context of restructuring and streamlining the apparatus; assign specific tasks, clearly define people, work, authority, responsibility, time and results for all stages and tasks throughout the organization process;

Closely monitor, proactively grasp the situation, promptly remove difficulties and obstacles for localities and issues arising during the Examination and admission at the beginning of the school year;

Continue to review, promptly direct and guide localities to have plans to inspect the preparation and organization work; focusing on stages with potential risks of negativity, fraud, and insecurity in the Examination and admission at the beginning of the school year;

Carefully review all stages, steps, tasks, and contents of the 2025 high school graduation exam to ensure absolute accuracy, safety, and appropriate differentiation;

Actively coordinate with the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department to do a good job of communication work with the spirit of providing correct, complete, objective and timely information so that parents, students and the whole society can clearly understand and reach high consensus in organizing the Exam.

The dispatch also requested the Ministry of Public Security, the Government Inspectorate, the Ministry of Health, the Central Executive Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, relevant ministries, agencies and localities to develop specific plans and direct professional units to coordinate with the education sector to organize the exam.

The Government Office, according to its assigned functions and tasks, shall monitor and urge the implementation of this Official Dispatch, promptly coordinate closely with the Ministry of Education and Training to report to the Prime Minister on arising issues beyond its authority as prescribed.

Full text of Official Dispatch No. 58/CD-TTg dated May 8, 2025 on organizing high school graduation exams and general education entrance exams in 2025, please see here.

Source: https://nhandan.vn/cong-dien-cua-thu-tuong-chinh-phu-ve-to-chuc-ky-thi-tot-nghiep-thpt-va-tuyen-sinh-dau-cap-nam-2025-post878348.html