Ho Chi Minh City: Announcing exam and mid-term and final exam schedules

(NLDO) - The City Department of Education and Training stipulates that schools only organize exams, tests, and final assessments in a centralized form and with common questions.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training said it has just issued a document with specific and detailed instructions on organizing tests and assessments for students in the 2025-2026 school year, applicable to middle and high school students. The Department stipulates that schools will only organize final tests and assessments in a centralized form and with common questions.

Testing and evaluation milestones

Inspection and evaluation period	Time of implementation
Midterm I	After the 8th week of semester I
End of term I	Completed by January 3, 2026
Midterm II	After the 7th week of semester II
End of term II	Completed by May 16, 2026

Particularly for subjects and educational activities with a teaching process different from the general process, the progress of mid-term and final assessment is built by the school to ensure it is consistent with the teaching process of the subject and educational activities specified in the program, while ensuring the completion time according to the time frame and school year plan of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee.

The Department of Education and Training also stipulates that based on the school's and professional team's testing and assessment plans, teachers develop specific testing and assessment plans for each class and grade level they are in charge of.

Publicly inform students of the number of times, scores, forms of regular and periodic tests and assessments; the method of selecting test and assessment results for regular tests and assessments conducted many times before organizing the tests and assessments. Publicly inform students of the test and assessment plan and criteria; organize the implementation of student tests and assessments to ensure fairness, objectivity and compliance with regulations.

School regulations only organize final exams and assessments in a centralized form with common questions. Photo: NLDO

Strengthen the application of information technology and computer software in the organization, management and implementation of student testing and assessment. Principals strengthen supervision in student testing and assessment; conduct internal school inspections of testing and assessment activities to promptly correct errors.

Subject results and results of subjects after each semester and the whole school year for subjects assessed by comments combined with assessment by scores: Comments on progress in attitude, behavior, and learning results of subjects after each semester and the whole school year; calculate the average score of the subject and calculate the average score of subjects after each semester and the whole school year.

For subjects assessed by comments: Comments on subjects after each semester and the entire school year at two levels: Passed and not passed; comments on aptitude (if any).

Information on testing and assessment is made public on the school's electronic information portal. The school principal is responsible for disseminating circulars, regulations, and rules on testing and assessment and providing information on testing and assessment to students and their parents.

The regulations on testing and evaluating students must ensure scientificity , logic, rigor, and specific regulations, ensuring the following contents: Responsibilities of school members in testing and evaluating students' learning and training. Specifically, on organizing tests and evaluating students' learning and training in the school (periodic tests, make-up tests, re-tests).

Regulations must be formulated to provide appropriate solutions to support students in supplementing knowledge and skills of new subjects and new learning clusters.

Assign teachers to support students with the content and requirements of the converted elective subjects and clusters to ensure that students have the capacity to continue learning the new subjects and clusters in the next class.

Forms and types of tests and assessments

Assessment by comments on learning outcomes for subjects: Physical education, art, music , fine arts, local educational content, experiential activities, career guidance. Learning outcomes by subject are assessed by comments at 1 of 2 levels: Passed, not passed.

Assessment by comments combined with assessment by scores for the remaining subjects in the general education program; learning outcomes by subject are assessed by scores on a 10-point scale. If another scale is used, it must be converted to a 10-point scale.

The Department also requires schools to effectively implement testing and assessment methods and forms: Develop testing and assessment plans in accordance with teaching plans; do not test or assess beyond the required level or level of the general education program; do not test or assess simplified content according to the guidance of the Ministry of Education and Training.

Effectively implement forms and methods of assessment, regular assessment and periodic assessment. Encourage schools to build question banks and test banks. For subjects and educational activities assessed by comments, encourage periodic testing and assessment through practice exercises and learning projects appropriate to the characteristics of the subject and educational activities.

Conduct online testing and assessment when ensuring sufficient conditions according to Circular No. 09/2021 of the Ministry of Education and Training to ensure quality, accuracy, efficiency, fairness, objectivity, honesty; and correctly assess students' abilities.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/tp-hcm-cong-bo-cac-moc-thoi-gian-thi-kiem-tra-giua-ky-cuoi-ky-196251015142848655.htm