More than 1.1 million candidates take the first graduation exam under the new program

The above information was given at the Conference - Training on regulations and procedures for organizing the 2025 High School Graduation Exam organized by the Ministry of Education and Training on April 3.

More than 1.1 million candidates participate in the 2025 High School Graduation Exam

Regarding some major new points of the 2025 high school graduation exam, Director of the Department of Quality Management Huynh Van Chuong said: This year's exam will reduce the number of exam sessions from 4 sessions as in previous years to 3 sessions. The exam will be oriented towards assessing capacity, with new subjects according to the 2018 General Education Program; Literature can use materials other than textbooks.

The 2025 exam will also promote digital transformation, 100% of candidates can register for the exam online. Increase the use of process assessment results in considering high school graduation recognition, from 30% to 50%. Changes in certificates and incentive points for Foreign Languages, Vietnamese, and vocational certificates.

The examination invigilation and grading process has been adjusted to ensure compliance with the examination organization plan, while overcoming previous limitations and shortcomings to create more convenience for units in the implementation process.

Compared to last year, the number of candidates increased from 1.06 million to over 1.1 million. From April 21-28, candidates began registering for the high school graduation exam, before that candidates had 4 days to register for a trial. Candidates used the identification code information on VNEID to register online at the high school, without needing to provide additional documents.

The Director of the Department of Quality Management noted that the Departments of Education and Training and high schools need to guide candidates to check and cross-check their exam registration information. When registering, candidates must choose a program. This is important information, serving as a basis for arranging locations, rooms, and exam questions for candidates. In addition, because this year's exam has two groups of candidates with different exam schedules and subjects, localities should not arrange the two groups at the same exam location.

Discussing the inspection and examination plan for the 2025 High School Graduation Exam, Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Education and Training Nguyen Duc Cuong said: The purpose of the inspection and examination work is to promptly grasp the situation, ensure the exam takes place safely, seriously, objectively, in accordance with the Examination Regulations and related documents.

Organize mock exams for 100% of students to evaluate realistically.

Speaking at the conference, Deputy Minister Pham Ngoc Thuong emphasized the general requirements of the High School Graduation Exam this year and previous years are to organize the exam safely, seriously, fairly, effectively, in accordance with regulations, reduce pressure, reduce costs, ensure reliability, and ensure quality.

Deputy Minister Pham Ngoc Thuong speaks at the Conference - Training.

From this general requirement, the Deputy Minister directed that it is necessary to focus on doing well 8 groups of issues both for preparation work and in directing implementation. In which, first of all, it is necessary to do well the organization of teaching and reviewing for exams.

According to the Deputy Minister, to do well in the exam, we must teach and learn well. From the beginning of the school year until the exam preparation, we request the leaders of the Department of Education and Training and specialized departments to direct good teaching for grade 12. Teach on time, innovate methods. "If teachers teach well every day, every semester, and the whole school year, the exam will no longer be stressful", emphasizing this, the Deputy Minister also mentioned the plan to organize the high school graduation exam earlier next year after completing the curriculum, so that the exam review does not have to be prolonged.

Along with the teaching and reviewing process, the Deputy Minister suggested that the Departments of Education and Training pay attention to the second group of issues, which is to organize mock exams for 100% of students, with the spirit of organizing mock exams but operating them for real, evaluating them for real, doing real tests and using mock exam results to classify students, on the basis of continuing to supplement knowledge. The rehearsal also helps teachers get used to this year's new exam organization method.

Early, remote, and thorough preparation is the third group of issues. According to the Deputy Minister, through practice, preparation needs to be thorough and comprehensive, from facilities, human resources, to backup plans... in which human resources and human resources are the most important. In preparation, it is necessary to forecast the situation and forecast the situation correctly.

The following groups of issues that the Deputy Minister requested to be focused on include: close, comprehensive, and key direction; smooth coordination between sectors and localities, in which the Education sector must proactively propose coordination; requirements for professional expertise and compliance with regulations; good communication, proactive, timely, and effective communication; forecasting difficult, complicated issues, issues that are most prone to errors and risks in order to have appropriate solutions.

The Deputy Minister also specifically noted the 4 contents of exam preparation, printing, invigilation, and grading with the principle that there are no small or big problems in taking exams, all are important and absolutely must not be neglected.

Reiterating the viewpoints of "4 rights" and "3 no's" that have been thoroughly implemented in the organization of the 2024 High School Graduation Exam and emphasizing that this is still the spirit of the 2025 Exam, Deputy Minister Pham Ngoc Thuong also mentioned "2 more promotions" that need to be done well in this year's Exam. That is, promoting the sense of responsibility and professional expertise of the steering force, the force participating in organizing the exam and promoting the self-awareness and compliance with the regulations of the candidates.

Minh Trang

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