Will adjust university entrance exam combination appropriately, ensuring candidates' rights

Information that some social sciences and humanities training institutions have simultaneously drastically reduced or eliminated the C00 block combination (Literature, History, Geography) in this year's university admissions season has caused confusion and anxiety among candidates about losing opportunities to enter their favorite majors and universities, which have recruited students according to the C00 block in previous years.

Candidates at the examination site of Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted, Nam Dinh city, Nam Dinh province check the list of candidates and registration numbers before the exam. Photo: Nguyen Lanh/VNA

In particular, this information was announced by schools at a time when the high school graduation exam was approaching, candidates had prepared early and completed the selection of graduation exam subjects to use exam scores in university admission this year.

Talking to VNA reporters about this issue, on the evening of June 5, a representative of the Ministry of Education and Training said: According to the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training, in the high school graduation exam from 2025, candidates will take compulsory exams in 2 subjects, including: Literature, Math and 2 elective subjects from the remaining subjects studied in grade 12.

According to this way of choosing subjects, in addition to the two compulsory subjects of Math and Literature, candidates who want to apply for university admission according to the combination of Social Sciences subjects will often choose to take two more subjects of History and Geography. Therefore, if some schools do not consider admission to block C00 but still use combinations with Math - Literature for admission such as: Math - Literature - History, Math - Literature - Geography, Math - History - Geography, candidates can completely register for admission based on the high school graduation exam scores of these subjects. Currently, most schools when building admission combinations have these combinations, during the learning process, students are trained in mathematical thinking, which will be very favorable in career development. Building combinations with Math, instead of purely social subjects such as combination C00 (Literature - History - Geography) will also help schools classify candidates better in the admission process.

However, there are some schools that, when building admission combinations, focus on English subjects such as: History - Geography - English; Literature - History - English; Literature - Geography - English; Literature - Civic Education - English... then candidates who register for the graduation exam with 4 subjects (Math - Literature - History - Geography) will lose the opportunity to register for admission in these combinations because they do not have a graduation exam score in English. This is disadvantageous for candidates during the admission process.

Therefore, upon receiving information reflecting that some training institutions have completely abandoned the C00 combination and are recruiting according to the above combinations, the Ministry of Education and Training has discussed with the schools and advised the training institutions to adjust the recruitment combinations accordingly in the context of the first year of candidates taking the High School Graduation Exam according to the 2018 General Education Program and the selection of graduation exam subjects has been completed before the time the schools announced the recruitment information. The Ministry of Education and Training also requires the schools to promptly inform the candidates after the adjustment, as well as explain to society. The spirit of the Ministry of Education and Training is that although schools are autonomous and responsible for recruitment, it must be reasonable and ensure the best interests of the students.

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