Why do students need to prepare early?

In addition to meeting the criteria of reducing pressure and costs, this year's exam needs to provide reliable enough data for universities and colleges to enroll students.

NEW POINTS OF THE 2025 GRADUATION EXAM

The 2025 exam will be implemented according to the 2018 General Education Program, which is built according to the competency approach, one program and has many different sets of textbooks (currently there are 3 sets of textbooks). Teaching, learning, testing, assessment and examination are oriented towards developing qualities and competencies; the exam questions are not based on textbooks but on the education program. This exam marks a huge change, for the first time assessing students on the qualities and competencies they need to achieve. This is considered a new philosophical orientation of Vietnamese education: training Vietnamese people to develop comprehensively in terms of qualities and competencies, maximizing the abilities and talents of each individual.

This year's 12th grade students will take the high school graduation exam according to the 2018 General Education Program.

The 2024 exam has 6 subjects, of which math, literature, and foreign language are 3 compulsory subjects. Students can choose a combination of subjects to take the exam between natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology) or social sciences (history, geography, civic education) with 4 exam sessions.

The 2025 exam has 4 subjects including compulsory math and literature, students can choose 2 more subjects from the following subjects (foreign language, physics, chemistry, biology, information technology, technology, history, geography, economic education and law). In which information technology and technology are 2 new subjects. Candidates (TS) with international foreign language certificates according to regulations can register to be exempt from this subject but will not be given a score of 10.

N EXAM MATERIALS ARE NOT IN ANY TEXTBOOK

In the 2024 exam, literature will be an essay test, while other subjects will be objective multiple-choice tests. The scope of the exam is the high school education program, mainly the 12th grade program; The requirements are knowledge and skill standards associated with each subject; The language used to create the exam is mainly based on the commonly used textbooks; Literature consists of 2 parts: reading comprehension (3 points), writing (7 points); The multiple-choice test has the number of questions depending on the subject and only one type of multiple-choice test (4 options); the number of points for each question is 10 divided by the total number of questions.

By the 2025 exam, a huge change is that the language used to create the exam questions is not in any textbook. The literature exam will be an essay based on language outside the textbook, consisting of 2 parts: reading comprehension (4 points), writing (6 points).

Multiple choice exams have 3 parts: Part 1 of the exam is multiple choice (4 methods, choose 1); each correct answer is worth 0.25 points. Part 2 is true or false; each question in this format has 4 options, candidates who correctly choose 1 option in a question will get 0.1 point; choose 2 options in a question correctly will get 0.25 points; choose 3 options in a question correctly will get 0.5 points; choose all 4 options in a question correctly will get 1 point. Part 3 includes questions in short answer format; candidates must come up with their own answers, there are no pre-set answers to choose from; this is a part similar to the essay test, candidates must think and reason.

The sample test published by the Ministry of Education and Training in 2023 shows new requirements (competency assessment), essay questions as well as multiple choice questions in a new format.

Candidates taking the 2024 high school graduation exam

GRADUATION REVIEW BY INCREASING THE RATE OF HIGH SCHOOL REPORTS

For the 2025 graduation exam, the Ministry of Education and Training plans to increase the average score of the 3-year high school transcript to 50% of the graduation score. This is consistent with the assessment of students according to the new regulations on assessing middle school and high school students according to the 2018 General Education Program. Therefore, the high school graduation results also combine the process assessment (3 years of study) with the final assessment (final graduation exam). At the same time, the exam results ensure enough reliability and differentiation of students for universities and colleges to recruit students.

However, in the spirit of autonomy, universities have been building a diverse admission plan with various methods, including early admission based on academic records and competency assessment exams, with a trend of reducing the percentage of admission quotas based on graduation exam scores.

Diversifying admission methods helps schools have more choices of assessment criteria that are more suitable to the characteristics of the training profession. Students also have more options to suit their abilities and strengths. However, does this go against the policy of the Ministry of Education and Training to reduce widespread early admission, affecting the quality of general education and increasing admission quotas based on exam scores to ensure fairness for students in disadvantaged areas - without conditions to take competency assessment exams?

SOLUTIONS FOR EARLY PREPARATION FOR THE 2025 EXAM

To prepare for the 2025 exam, the Ministry of Education and Training has taken steps such as: announcing the 2+2 exam plan (2 compulsory subjects + 2 elective subjects); announcing 17 sample exam questions for schools to guide teaching and review for 12th grade students; setting the early exam date as June 26-27, 2024; training on test and exam development according to the Ministry's new format for staff and teachers... At the same time, requiring universities to develop and announce early the 2025 enrollment plan.

To prepare for the 2025 high school graduation exam with the best results, it is necessary to implement many synchronous solutions.

First of all, the education sector and localities and educational institutions with high school students need to propagate and disseminate to society, parents and students the policy of renewing the high school exam in 2025, creating social consensus.

Universities will soon announce their 2025 enrollment plans, including transparent enrollment targets according to different methods, and include information technology and computer science subjects in the admission combination.

The Department of Education and Training presides over and trains administrators and high school teachers on designing exams in new formats, new requirements, and building a province-wide exam bank. The final exam of the second semester follows the general exam of the department. Schools arrange exam rooms by subject group, and each school practices like the high school graduation exam model.

High schools and vocational training centers organize surveys on students' wishes regarding registration for graduation exam combinations, class arrangement, teaching organization, testing, and evaluation according to the new exam format. Teachers innovate teaching methods, improve the quality of students in general, especially review and exam preparation for 12th grade students.

Invest in facilities, teaching equipment, reference books, increase experiential activities, career guidance to help students choose a career that suits their aspirations, abilities and family conditions to study at university or vocational education. Implement student streaming after high school to achieve the goal of 40-45% of high school students participating in vocational training by 2025 to reduce pressure on university admission.

Special support solutions are needed for flood-affected areas.

The Ministry of Education and Training needs to have special support solutions for areas severely devastated by storm No. 3 (Yagi), which has had a serious impact on education. Natural disasters and epidemics have greatly affected the quality of education. In 2022, due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, nearly 100% of the Southeast and Mekong Delta localities have seen their average exam scores drop compared to 2021.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/ky-thi-tot-nghiep-thpt-2025-vi-sao-can-chuan-bi-som-cho-hoc-sinh-18524091820415067.htm