In the draft regulations on university admissions in 2025, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) plans to require schools that organize their own exams such as assessing capacity and thinking to submit score data for general admission. Regarding exam questions, the draft regulations emphasize that schools must adjust exam questions to closely follow the curriculum and not evaluate outside of the content being studied.
Create convenience and fairness for candidates
Currently, there are more than 10 aptitude and thinking assessment exams nationwide organized by universities to recruit students. About 100 other schools also use these results, requiring candidates to submit certificates as proof. After conducting their own admissions, usually before the graduation exam scores are available, the schools enter the candidates' wishes into the Ministry of Education and Training's common system to filter out fake candidates.
According to the representative of the Ministry of Education and Training, the number of schools registering to share results is increasing, but they require candidates to get a score confirmation form at the exam venue, causing inconvenience and frustration for test takers. Therefore, the Ministry plans to require schools that organize their own exams to provide exam results data to the system so that other schools can easily look up and use them for admission. Units must be responsible for the accuracy of the results.
In fact, organizing separate exams for admission or using the results of these separate exams is the autonomy of universities as stipulated in the Law on UniversityEducation . However, having many separate exams makes many people worry that it will cause candidates to have to take more exams, increasing the pressure of studying. At the same time, there are separate exams that are registered for multiple times to improve results, which is both convenient for candidates but also puts pressure on a group of candidates who do not have the conditions to take the exam or take the exam multiple times. While the enrollment quota is limited, many schools reserve most of the enrollment quota for the method of considering the test scores to assess capacity and thinking organized by the school, causing candidates who do not have the opportunity to take the exam or are in remote areas, having difficulty in reviewing for the exam, leading to low results, will be disadvantaged.
In order to create fairness in the admission process, the Ministry of Education and Training plans to stipulate that admission scores in all methods (ability assessment tests, academic records, combined academic records and international certificates, graduation exams, etc.) must be converted to a common scale. From the perspective of educational institutions, to implement the conversion, careful research and calculation will be required, especially for schools that apply multiple admission methods.
Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc - Chairman of the University Council - University of Technology - (Hanoi National University) proposed that the minimum scores between methods should only be equivalent or proportional to each other by a certain coefficient k (according to the ratio of quota and difficulty). This only applies to admission based on high school transcript results.
The exam must follow the curriculum.
2025 is the first year that students will take the high school graduation exam under the new curriculum. Therefore, the draft regulations emphasize that schools must adjust the exam questions to closely follow the curriculum and not evaluate outside of the content learned.
However, looking at the 2025 sample exam questions of some educational institutions, many people are concerned. For example, students studying under the 2018 General Education Program have chosen to study according to their favorite combination, suitable for their abilities and future career orientation. However, the 2025 capacity assessment exam of Ho Chi Minh City National University will test all contents, without the optional part as the information this educational institution has previously provided to suit the study of elective subjects. This will make it difficult for many candidates because during the 3 years of high school, they have not studied or reviewed these subjects in class, so it will be very difficult to read and understand the entire exam. Especially candidates studying social studies will easily get caught up in the maze of scientific symbols, especially the new way of reading chemical elements that even students who have studied find difficult. Some opinions also expressed concerns about this separate exam aimed at a mass of candidates. Specialized science and technology groups or medical and pharmaceutical schools that want to use the exam results for admission also need to consider carefully.
Statistics show that the number of candidates taking the separate exam is a record high compared to last year. The capacity assessment exam of the two national universities has more than 230,000 candidates. Meanwhile, Hanoi University of Science and Technology recorded about 40,000 candidates registering for the thinking assessment exam, nearly 3 times higher than last year.
Open registration portal for 2025 Thinking Assessment of Hanoi University of Science and Technology
Hanoi University of Science and Technology has opened the registration portal for candidates who wish to take the 2025 Thinking Assessment (TSA) exam. This is the unit that starts the 2025 admission season earliest with its own exams. Candidates who wish to take the Thinking Assessment (TSA) exam can register at: https://tsa.hust.edu.vn/. The registration deadline is December 6. The exam fee is 500,000 VND/exam/candidate. This is the registration opening for candidates taking the exam on January 18 and 19, 2025. Candidates can also register to take the TSA Thinking Assessment test in 2025. In 2025, Hanoi University of Science and Technology plans to organize the Thinking Assessment in 3 exam sessions at 30 exam locations, serving about 75,000 exam takers. In addition to the previous testing sites, Hanoi University of Science and Technology will open new testing sites to support students in the Northwestern provinces.
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