More certificates expected to be exempted from English graduation exam

The Ministry of Education and Training plans to exempt candidates from the exam and calculate the score for 10 foreign language subjects for high school graduation if they have a TOEIC or VSTEP certificate, in addition to IELTS 4.0.

In the draft amendment and supplement to the high school graduation exam regulations that the Ministry of Education and Training is seeking opinions on, the Ministry expands the certificates exempted from the Foreign Language exam in considering recognition of high school graduation.

In addition to the TOEFL ITP certificate of 450 points, TOEFL iBT of 45 points, IELTS of 4.0 as in previous years, candidates with a level 3 certificate according to the 6-level foreign language proficiency framework for Vietnam (VSTEP), B1 Preliminary/B1 Business Preliminary/B1 Linguaskill, Aptis ESOL B1, PEARSON PTE B1 or TOEIC 4 skills will be exempted from the Foreign Language test.

In particular, with the TOEIC certificate, candidates need to achieve a Listening score of 275-399 points, Reading 275-384 points, Speaking 120-159 points, Writing 120-149 points.

For other foreign languages such as Russian, French, Chinese, German, Japanese, the certificates used for exam exemption are the same as last year.

Minimum requirements for certification types and issuing agencies are as follows:

2024 is the last year that the high school graduation exam will be held with 5 exams, each candidate will take 6 subjects. Candidates will take three compulsory exams: Math, Literature, Foreign Language and choose one of two combined exams: Natural Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Biology) or Social Sciences (History, Geography, Civic Education for high school students and History, Geography for continuing education students).

With the regulation of IELTS 4.0 or TOEFL ITP 450, TOEFL iBT 45 points are exempted from the Foreign Language exam, every year, there are tens of thousands of candidates in this category. For example, in the 2023 high school graduation exam, nearly 46,700 candidates registered to be exempted from the Foreign Language exam, accounting for 4.5% of the total number of candidates.

In university admissions, dozens of schools use IELTS, TOEFL... for admission. However, schools do not use the Ministry's exam exemption results but convert certificates according to their own scoring scale, combined with academic transcript scores or high school graduation exam scores to calculate admission scores.

In addition to adding types of certificates exempted from the Foreign Language exam, the draft Regulations on High School Graduation Exams clearly stipulate independent rounds of the exam area, exam storage room, exam papers... to minimize exam cheating. This is a new point compared to the old regulations.

The Ministry of Education and Training is seeking comments on the draft Regulations on High School Graduation Exams until February 15, 2024.

Duong Tam

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