2024 High School Graduation Exam Scores: Abnormalities in Block C

NUMBER OF CANDIDATES WITH 27 POINTS OR MORE INCREASED… 634% COMPARED TO 2023

From the 15-point mark and above, compared to 2023 and 2022, the total number of candidates (TS) achieving this mark this year has increased, from 11% (compared to 2023) to 14% (compared to 2022). The higher the score mark, the faster the number of TS achieving the corresponding score marks increases. At the 18-point mark and above, the recruitment rate increased by 34% (compared to 2023) and 28% (compared to 2022). At the 20-point mark, the recruitment source this year increased by 1.5 times compared to last year, and increased by 40% compared to the previous year.

Yesterday morning, July 17, the Ministry of Education and Training officially announced the 2024 high school graduation exam scores and score distribution for each subject and exam group for university and college admission.

From here, the recruitment source began to increase "skyrocketingly" compared to last year. At the 21.75 point mark, the recruitment source doubled (206%). At the 24.25 point mark, the recruitment source tripled (this year there are 129,585 candidates, last year there were 42,320 candidates). Every 0.25 point increase increases the number of recruitment sources by dozens of percent. At the 27 point mark (a score that is not certain to pass the top majors), last year there were 3,681 candidates achieved, this year there are 23,343, an increase of... 634% (and nearly 4 times higher than in 2022). At the 28 point mark, this year it is... 10 times higher than last year (please note that this score mark still has a high possibility of failing the first wish), this year there are 7,620 students, last year there were 740 students achieved. At even higher scores, from 29.25 points and above, every year there are usually only a few or five or seven students who achieve, this year there are hundreds of students. Specifically, the whole country has 380 students who achieved 29.25 points or more in block C, last year there were only 7 students who achieved (an increase of 5.429%)!

THE WHOLE COUNTRY HAS 19 TOP GRADUATES IN BLOCK C

The peak of the abnormal performance of block C scores this year is that the whole country has 19… valedictorians, lined up horizontally at a near-absolute level, 29.75/30 (while each block has only one valedictorian). These 19 TS are not spread evenly across regions but are concentrated in Bac Ninh province with… 13 students.

Candidates in the literature exam room of the 2024 high school graduation exam. This year, no province/city in the country has an average literature score below average.

To explain the "inflation" of top students in group C, Thanh Nien Newspaper has made a preliminary statistic of the 10 points of the exam subjects and found that there are some factors that are advantageous for group C as follows: Candidates taking the history and geography exams are superior to those taking the physics, chemistry and biology exams. 10 points are "exciting" in history and geography, while they are quite rare in physics, chemistry and biology. Specifically, the number of 10 points for each subject is as follows: physics 55; chemistry 1,278; biology 34; history 2,108; geography 3,175.

There were no 10s in math, the highest score was 9.8, and only 43 students achieved this level. Literature had 2 students with 10s (Dong Thap, Nam Dinh ), 1,843 students achieved 9.75 points. Meanwhile, the number of students taking the math exam was slightly higher than the number of students taking the literature exam.

OTHER EXAM BLOCKS HAVE HIGH SCORES WITHOUT MUCH FLUCTUATION

For other exam groups, in general, the number of candidates with average scores has increased slightly, but the high scores have not changed much. For example, with group A00, the score is from 27 to 28.25, equivalent to last year. Therefore, the majors that took the A00 combination last year with scores from 23-25 ​​are expected to increase by about 0.5 points.

Block A01, from 25.25 to 27 and above, the number of students is approximately the same as in 2023; from 27.25, the number of students is about 30% less than in 2023. Therefore, the majors using the A01 combination last year with scores from 23-25 ​​will increase by about 0.25 points; the majors last year with a standard score from 25 will decrease by about 0.25 to 0.5 points.

The D01 combination from 24.5 and above has a number of students 30-50% higher than in 2023 (due to the influence of the high literature score range, although the English score is not high). Therefore, the majors using the D01 combination last year with a score of 22-24 will increase by about 0.25 points. The majors last year with a score of 24 or more will increase by about 0.5 points.

QUY HIEN - PHAM THANH HA

GRADUATION EXAM RESULTS: AVERAGE SCORE INCREASED, 10-POINT SCORE DECREASE

The average and median scores of all subjects in the 2024 high school graduation exam increased compared to last year, but the number of 10 points decreased significantly.

According to statistics from the 2024 high school graduation exam scores provided by the Ministry of Education and Training, this year there were nearly 10,900 exams with a score of 10 in all subjects, a sharp decrease compared to last year (more than 15,000 scores of 10). The average score for literature this year was up to 7.23 points, higher than in 2023 (6.86 points).

The highest score achieved by TS in literature is up to 8 points with 85,990 TS; in 2023, the highest score achieved by TS is 7. There are 1,843 exams with 9.75 points; 14,198 exams with 9.5 points; 26,758 exams with 9.25 points and 49,254 exams with 9 points...

However, the whole country has no candidates who scored 10 in math (in 2023 it was 12), the number of 0 points in math this year is also higher with 14 candidates (in 2023 it was 2). However, the average and median scores this year in this subject have both increased compared to last year, respectively 6.45 and 6.8. The number of failing exams has also decreased compared to last year, with 76 exams (in 2023 it was 123 exams)...

English continues to be at the bottom of the list with the lowest score among the 9 subjects. The number of exams with below average scores in this subject accounts for nearly 43% with 386,861 candidates scoring below 5. The highest score achieved by a candidate is 4.6. However, this subject also has 565 exams with a score of 10, an increase compared to 2023 (494 scores of 10).

Although the total number of subjects scoring 10 has decreased sharply, some subjects have increased significantly. Geography is the subject with the number of subjects scoring 10 increasing nearly 90 times compared to last year. Specifically, in 2023 there were only 35 scores of 10, but this year the number is 3,175.

In 2024, 1,278 students scored 10 in Chemistry, compared to only 137 last year. History also had the number of perfect scores nearly 3 times higher than last year (from 789 students scoring 10 in 2023 to more than 2,100 students in 2024).

On the contrary, there are subjects with a sharp decrease in the number of 10s. In recent years, Civics has been known as a subject with a "rain of 10s". This year, this subject still has the most 10s with more than 3,300 papers. However, the number of 10s in Civics has still decreased sharply compared to last year (nearly 14,700 papers).

This year, history has also improved, reducing the number of exams with below average scores. Specifically, in 2023, this subject had the highest number of students with below average scores with 170,237 students, but this year the number has decreased to 92,119 students.

Associate Professor Nguyen Duc Son, Principal of Hanoi National University of Education, expressed his hope that the exam questions in the following exams will be more uniform, with no large difference between the scores of different subjects. This will create a common ground for easily assessing the quality of teaching and learning.

Provinces and cities that are "super good at literature"

According to Thanh Nien Newspaper's analysis, no province/city in the country has an average score in literature below average. The lowest is Cao Bang, approximately 6 points. The whole country also has only 8 provinces with an average score in literature below 6.5. 38 provinces/cities have achieved the level from 6.5 to 7.5.

Among the remaining 25 provinces/cities (average literature score from 7.5 or higher), there are 7 provinces/cities with an average literature score at the excellent level, that is, from 8 or higher, including: Ninh Binh 8.17; Tra Vinh 8.09; Nam Dinh 8.05; Ha Nam 8.05; Nghe An 8.04; Thanh Hoa 8; Hai Phong 8.

Nationwide, 92,054 candidates achieved a score of 9 or higher in literature (accounting for 9% of the total number of candidates taking the literature exam). Candidates with a score of 9 or higher in literature from these 7 provinces and cities alone accounted for 1/4 of the 9 points in literature nationwide.

If we consider the percentage of candidates who scored 9 or higher in literature compared to the number of candidates who took the exam, Ninh Binh is at the top of the list. This province has 3,158 candidates who scored 9 or higher in literature, accounting for 27% of the total number of candidates who took the literature exam in the province. 71% of candidates scored 8 or higher (meaning that out of 10 candidates who took the exam, only 3 scored below 8).

Ranked 2nd is Tra Vinh, 26% (681 students, because the total number of candidates taking the exam in this province is small). Next are Ha Nam and Hai Phong, both 23%.

Although Thanh Hoa and Nghe An only have 19-20% of students scoring 9 points or higher in literature, because these two provinces have a large number of students, each province accounts for 7.6 to 8% of students scoring 9 points or higher nationwide.

Among the remaining provinces and cities, Hanoi is only in 13th place, with an average score of "only" 7.76 in literature, but it is the locality with the most high scores. From 9 and above, Hanoi has 17,480 candidates, accounting for 19% of the country's scores of 9 and above in literature. The reason for many high scores but the average score is not outstanding is because Hanoi has too many candidates taking the literature exam, 106,636 students (accounting for 10% of the total number of candidates taking the literature exam).

Among the centrally-run cities, Ho Chi Minh City is the locality with the "lowest" literature score, with an average of 6.6. The entire city has 463 candidates achieving 9 points or higher in literature, while 85,679 candidates took the exam.

Quy Hien - Pham Thanh Ha

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/diem-thi-tot-nghiep-thpt-2024-bat-thuong-khoi-c-185240718011344145.htm