How will the 10th grade benchmark scores in Ho Chi Minh City increase or decrease?

Yesterday, June 23, 76,154 candidates taking the 10th grade entrance exam in 2025 in Ho Chi Minh City knew their exam results, while on June 26, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training announced the general 10th grade benchmark scores of 113 public high schools. How do experienced teachers predict the 10th grade benchmark scores this year will increase or decrease when the score distribution of exam subjects has many fluctuations?

Also yesterday, the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City announced the benchmark scores for specialized schools and integrated English programs. Accordingly, about 2,000 candidates were admitted to these programs.

INCREASE AND DECREASE BY SCHOOL TOP

Teacher Tran Tuan Anh, Thu Duc High School (Thu Duc City), said that based on the score distribution chart of the 10th grade math exam, it shows that most of the students have scores between 5 and 8. The number of scores below 5 no longer exceeds 50% as in previous years. The peak of the score distribution falls between 6.5 and 7.5. Of which, the score of 7 is the most common, showing the popularity of good scores. The number of students with scores above 9 is relatively small, the number of students with scores of 10 is 36. The number of students with scores from 0.25 to below 5 is gradually increasing, shown by the increasing score column from left to right.

In addition, according to the math teacher of Thu Duc High School, this year's math test was assessed as suitable for the program and ensured differentiation, so on the two outermost sides of the chart, the number of students decreased sharply (from 0 to 1.5 points and from 8.5 to 10 points). This shows that the test was not too easy for many students to get 10 points, but it was not too difficult for many students to drop to failing points.

The graph is skewed to the right, the median score is likely to be slightly higher than the average score, meaning there is a small group of students with very low scores that pull the average score down.

Candidates look up their 10th grade exam results on Thanh Nien Online on the morning of June 23.

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However, the peak of the score spectrum falls between 6.5 and 7.5, showing that the test is suitable for the first TS taking the test according to the 2018 General Education Program. And because the test still ensures good differentiation, the number of scores from 8 to 10 is not much.

In addition, compared with the 10th grade exam score distribution in 2024, Mr. Tran Tuan Anh said that this year's math score distribution has a significantly higher number of scores from 6 and above. The literature score distribution in 2025 is concentrated in the range of 5 - 8 points, almost the same as last year. The English score distribution in 2025 is concentrated in the range of 5.75 - 8.25 points. Scores from 9 and above are much lower than in 2024.

From the above analysis and comparison, along with this year's admission conditions, such as the number of candidates taking the exam decreasing by about 22,000 compared to last year, Mr. Tuan Anh predicts that the benchmark scores of some top and bottom schools may increase slightly due to a significant increase in math scores. The middle schools will decrease their benchmark scores due to the high number of quotas.

INCREASE BUT NOT SUDDENLY

Similarly, teacher Dang Hoang Du, who teaches math in Go Vap District (HCMC), said that this year's 10th grade exam has better differentiation than in 2024. Specifically, the math exam generally has a score range of 6.25 - 8.25, a significant increase compared to last year. The score range for English and literature is similar to last year, so it is predicted that the bottom-ranked schools may have the same standard scores as last year and the top-ranked schools may have an increase, but not dramatically.

Although the average grade 10 exam scores this year have increased, according to the announcement of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City yesterday, the benchmark scores for specialized grade 10 have mostly decreased, for example, the IT specialized grade 10 score of Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted has decreased by nearly 5 points. A high school principal said that the benchmark scores for specialized grade 10 have decreased because this year's specialized subject exam questions were assessed by teachers to be more difficult than last year.

Mr. Ho Tan Minh, Chief of Office of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, informed that candidates admitted to grade 10 for specialized high schools, high schools that organize integrated English programs and direct admission use their accounts to access the website ts10.hcm.edu.vn to confirm online admission from June 23 to before 4:00 p.m. on June 25. After that time, if candidates do not submit their admission application, the school will remove their name from the admission list. According to regulations, after students admitted to specialized and integrated classes complete their admission confirmation, the Department of Education and Training's grade 10 exam score software will perform technical operations to consider the standard scores for grade 10 for general admission according to the 3 priority wishes for general admission to grade 10 for general admission of 113 public high schools.

On June 26, the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City will announce the general 10th grade benchmark scores. Thanh Nien Newspaper will update information about the 10th grade benchmark scores as soon as possible at thanhnien.vn.

Look up exam scores and benchmark scores on Thanh Nien Online

To meet the needs of students and parents to quickly and accurately look up the 6th grade survey scores of Tran Dai Nghia Secondary and High School, the 10th grade exam scores of Ho Chi Minh City and the high school graduation exam scores of localities across the country, Thanh Nien Newspaper has opened a page to look up exam scores at https://thanhnien.vn/giao-duc/tra-cuu-diem-thi.htm.

On the 2025 exam score lookup page, readers will not only know the exam scores and benchmark scores of the entrance exams for grade 6 of Tran Dai Nghia Secondary and High School, grade 10 of Ho Chi Minh City or the high school graduation exam, but will also be provided with a lot of other information related to the important exam that is attracting the attention of parents, Dr.

For example, with the 10th grade exam in Ho Chi Minh City, readers can not only look up exam scores but also find information about the benchmark scores for specialized and integrated 10th grade in 2025, enrollment quotas, competition rates of 115 public high schools in Ho Chi Minh City in 2025; the top high schools in Ho Chi Minh City with the highest and lowest benchmark scores in recent years... in the last 3 years of public high schools to be able to predict the benchmark scores for general 10th grade this year.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/diem-chuan-lop-10-tphcm-se-tang-giam-ra-sao-185250623200646763.htm