NOTES TO AVOID BREAKING THE RULES AND LOST POINTS
At the conference on guidelines for 10th grade entrance exams organized by the Hanoi Department of Education and Training on the morning of June 3, Mr. Nghiem Van Binh, Head of the Department of Examination Management and Quality Assessment (Hanoi Department of Education and Training), summarized notable changes in the 10th grade exam in 2025 in Hanoi.
Hanoi candidates take the 2024 public 10th grade exam. This year, the city's public 10th grade entrance rate will be higher.
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Hanoi has the largest number of candidates taking the 10th grade entrance exam in the country.
Hanoi's 10th grade entrance exam for the 2025-2026 school year will be held on June 7 and 8; the specialized exam will be held on June 9. Hanoi is the locality with the largest number of candidates taking the 10th grade entrance exam in the country, with 115,951 candidates registering for the exam (including 102,860 non-specialized public candidates and 13,091 specialized candidates).
The city arranged 4,411 exam rooms, 201 backup exam rooms; 201 exam locations in 30 districts, towns and cities.
The Department of Education and Training has mobilized 15,173 officials, teachers, staff, and police to participate in organizing exam supervision at exam sites; and more than 2,000 officials and teachers to participate in exam marking.
In particular, there are changes directly related to candidates such as: no more specialized subjects of chemistry, physics, biology, history, geography; instead, there is a natural science subject (with knowledge content for candidates taking the exam for specialized physics, chemistry and biology classes), history and geography for candidates taking the exam for specialized history and geography classes.
Regarding the test format, candidates taking the natural science exam will do the test directly on the test paper, while in previous years, only foreign language exams were done this way. The test time for all specialized subjects is 150 minutes. Thus, chemistry and foreign language exams will increase by 30 minutes compared to previous years.
The items that TS can bring into the exam room include: pens, rulers, pencils, erasers, squares, graphing rulers, drawing tools, handheld calculators without text editing functions, and no memory cards. Compared to last year, Mr. Binh noted that the list includes more drawing tools, graphing rulers; and removes the geography atlas, periodic table, and solubility table (used in chemistry).
Items that are not prohibited for candidates to bring into the exam room include wristwatches, water bottles, etc., but must be guaranteed not to contain devices or documents used for cheating on exams.
Mr. Binh also emphasized that candidates must be reminded twice to check their registration number, information on the exam paper, and the test code on the multiple-choice answer sheet. Once before taking the test, once 5 minutes before submitting the test. This regulation does not exist every year.
Some remaining changes are related to the responsibilities of the invigilators, such as the way of distributing the exam papers, drawing lots to number the candidates, sealing and preserving the exam papers... Mr. Binh requested that teachers strictly follow the regulations and principles of exam supervision, not be negligent, subjective, and not arbitrarily handle situations.
"Any feedback on exam questions and unusual incidents in the exam room must be immediately reported to the head of the exam site, through the supervisor," Mr. Binh emphasized.
For students who violate the level of reprimand or warning, the representative of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training instructed that a record should be made but the students must still continue to do the test; the test results will be deducted according to the regulations on the level of violation, and the students' test time must not be wasted.
CANDIDATE RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE EXAM ROOM
Regarding the responsibilities of candidates in the examination room, Mr. Nghiem Van Binh reminded candidates to write down their full registration number, carefully check the number of pages, the quality of the printed test and the test code. If any abnormalities are found in the test (torn, missing pages, damaged printing, blurred...), candidates must immediately report to the supervisor, no later than 5 minutes from the time of the test. "After these 5 minutes, if candidates do not report anything, they will be responsible for the test they receive," Mr. Binh noted. In addition, candidates are allowed to submit their test papers after 2/3 of the time for essay subjects has passed. When collecting the test papers, the supervisor must not let candidates write down the wrong registration number, fill in the wrong registration number, forget to sign when submitting the paper...
Mr. Tran The Cuong, Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training, said that despite being thoroughly informed, every year Hanoi still has a phenomenon of candidates accidentally bringing their phones into the exam room while many other provinces and cities report that no candidates violate this regulation. "Perhaps our reminders to candidates before the exam day and time are not thorough enough," Mr. Cuong said and suggested that to ensure that candidates do not "unfairly fail", families and supervisors must pay attention to candidates about this.
At the conference, a representative of the Hanoi City Police Department instructed on how to identify high-tech devices that can be used to cheat in exams and requested that if a candidate is found bringing a phone into the exam area, not only should a record be made and the exam suspended, the head of the exam site should immediately inform the police force to promptly investigate, isolate, and urgently prevent the dissemination of exam questions and papers to the outside, leading to exam questions being leaked or leaked...
The 10th grade entrance exam in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City is always hot, receiving great attention from parents.
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REDUCE PRESSURE ON CANDIDATES IN THE WAY OF SETTING EXAM QUESTIONS
The requirement of "taking exams seriously but not creating pressure" was emphasized by the Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training at the conference. Invigilators need to show strictness in supervision, but still maintain a gentle and friendly attitude, creating a stable mentality for candidates. Handling unusual situations must be based on regulations, instructions and ensuring maximum benefits for candidates, do not cause them unnecessary stress.
Talking further with reporters about the exam, Mr. Tran The Cuong affirmed that the official exam will follow the same structure and format as the sample exam that the Hanoi Department of Education and Training announced at the beginning of the school year. The exam content is guaranteed not to be "puzzling", not outside the program that students have learned in middle school, the content is mainly in the 9th grade program.
Notably, Mr. Cuong said that in the near future, there will be 3 more public high schools that will be established by the city. The Department of Education and Training will assign each school an additional enrollment quota of about 10 classes with a total expected enrollment quota of 1,500 students. These are Do Muoi School (Hoang Mai District), Phuc Thinh School (Dong Anh District) and a school in Cau Giay District. When the 3 schools come into operation, it is expected that in the first year, they will be able to enroll "overflowing wishes" by region, instead of dividing enrollment by enrollment route and exam registration like other schools.
Mr. Cuong also said that the rate of Hanoi students entering public grade 10 in 2025 will increase by about 3% compared to the 2024-2025 school year, reaching 64% of junior high school graduates. When 3 public high schools come into operation and are assigned enrollment targets, the rate of students entering public grade 10 in the city will certainly be higher.
Change the calculation method and time of announcing benchmark scores
Mr. Tran The Cuong pointed out a big challenge in 10th grade enrollment this year, which is that according to the new regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training, exam scores and standard scores will have to be announced at the same time, not announcing exam scores first and then standard scores like previous years.
"In recent years, to announce the benchmark scores one day after announcing the exam scores, we had to make a lot of effort. Now that we announce the exam scores and benchmark scores at the same time, those responsible will definitely have to work day and night to meet this requirement," Mr. Cuong said, adding that although it is difficult, it will be overcome.
In addition, Mr. Cuong also noted that the way to calculate the benchmark score this year has changed. Many years ago, Hanoi calculated the scores of literature and math with a coefficient of 2, and the third subject with a coefficient of 1 to enroll students in non-specialized high schools. However, according to the new regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training, from this year, all 3 subjects will only be calculated with the same coefficient of 1. Therefore, the benchmark score will no longer be over 40 points like previous years because the total highest score of the 3 subjects will only stop at 30.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/nhieu-thay-doi-ve-thi-lop-10-thi-sinh-can-dac-biet-ghi-nho-18525060322124853.htm
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