New points in the 2025 high school graduation exam

The Ministry of Education and Training has shared the agreed points on the high school graduation exam plan for 2025.

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Associate Professor, Dr. Huynh Van Chuong, Director of the Department of Quality Management (Ministry of Education and Training) shared new points in the 2025 high school graduation exam.

At the conference to summarize the 2023 high school graduation exam and deploy the 2024 high school graduation exam this morning (September 20), talking about the plan to organize the graduation exam from 2025, Associate Professor Dr. Huynh Van Chuong, Director of the Department of Quality Management (Ministry of Education and Training), said that the exam will be organized by subject.

11 subjects including Literature, Math, Foreign Language, History, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Economic and Legal Education, Information Technology, Technology (actually 17 subjects because Foreign Language includes 6 subjects corresponding to each language). Of which, some subjects are compulsory and some are optional.

The test content will closely follow the objectives of the 2018 General Education Program, mainly the 12th grade program. The test questions will focus on enhancing capacity assessment, in accordance with the regulations and implementation roadmap of the 2018 General Education Program.

Regarding the exam format, Literature is in essay format; the remaining subjects are in multiple choice format. The question bank and exam papers for all subjects are built with an emphasis on competency assessment.

Mr. Chuong said that the Ministry of Education and Training is aiming to hold the exam around June. "We will try to hold it around the end of June, around June 20-30," Mr. Chuong said.

Regarding the graduation recognition method, to evaluate teaching and learning capacity, according to Mr. Chuong, the results of the process assessment and the graduation exam results will still be combined. “This is one of the contents that needs to be further researched. Currently, the ratio is 70-30, we will research whether the ratio can be 50-50 or if there is a better way,” Mr. Chuong said.

Regarding the implementation roadmap, the Director of the Department of Quality Management said that in the period of 2025 - 2030, the high school graduation exam will continue to maintain the paper-based exam method; at the same time, increase the effective application of information technology, gradually pilot computer-based exams for multiple-choice subjects in qualified localities (can combine paper-based exams and computer-based exams).

After 2030, we will strive to switch to organizing high school graduation exams on computers for multiple-choice subjects when all localities nationwide have the conditions to organize exams on computers.

Explaining further about the exam subjects, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Ha, Deputy Director of the Department of Quality Management (Ministry of Education and Training), said: "Only subjects that are evaluated by scores will be considered for inclusion in the exam. The remaining subjects are difficult to implement with the paper-based exam plan," Mr. Ha said.

The 2018 high school general education program has 17 subjects (of which Foreign Language includes 6 subjects) assessed by scores.

To evaluate according to the program's output standards, according to Mr. Ha, the high school graduation exam focuses on important competencies suitable for career orientation in high school: specific competencies (of subjects), problem-solving and creative competencies, calculation competencies, language competencies...

Regarding the exam format from 2025, Mr. Ha said there will be inheritance with the current exam format, teaching and learning.

However, it is expected that there will be developments to suit the assessment goals. For example, in the leading questions of the exam, the context in the question will be studied; according to the assessment purpose... At the same time, the Ministry of Education and Training will study more multiple choice test formats with 4 true/false options, open-ended questions - short answers...

However, according to Mr. Ha, the Ministry of Education and Training must also consider limiting the increase in the number of exam papers. Mr. Ha added that the construction and testing of the illustrative exam for the 2025 high school graduation exam will take place between October and November 2023.

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