University admission based on academic records hardly reflects students' real abilities and can easily lead to negativity.

Many people say that it is now too easy to get into university through the "door" of reviewing academic records, but the consequence is a reduction in student quality due to a lack of basic knowledge.

Recently, on November 22, the Ministry of Education and Training announced the draft regulations for university admissions in 2025, including many new points on early admission. Specifically, universities are not allowed to reserve more than 20% of their quota for early admission, and for considering transcripts, they must use the entire 12th grade score, and must include Math or Literature, according to the draft of the Ministry of Education.

Admission based on academic records hardly reflects students' real abilities (Photo: Vu Bang)

On social networking forums, many opinions say that the current report card scores are not accurate and do not reflect the actual abilities of students. In the past, in high school, normal classes (not selective classes) rarely had students with excellent academic performance, and those with good grades accounted for less than half of the class. And the average final score of only about 6.5 to 7 points was considered good.

Nowadays, most of the classes have a total of 7 or 8 points in their report cards, but it seems that the quality of learning has not improved at all. In real tests, the scores are only 3 or 4 points. The phenomenon of students lacking basic knowledge from high school to university is no longer strange, however, they still pass the university entrance exam thanks to their report cards.

A parent shared that after their child went to college for four years, spending hundreds of millions of dong, but after graduating, they only wanted to work as a sales person because their general knowledge was still shaky and they had no expertise. With such ability, the parent had to sadly keep their child's college degree and try to invest in opening a small restaurant for the child to make a living.

Many people say that it is too easy to get into university now, but the quality of students is very bad. Except for a few top schools, most of the lower-ranked schools consider admission based on transcripts and graduation exam subjects (all scores are 8, 9, 10), so where does the actual quality come from?

Observing the benchmark scores for high school students entering university in recent years, a test preparation teacher in Ho Chi Minh City also expressed "discomfort" with the transcript scores and this form of university admission.

This teacher said that the benchmark score based on the form of considering academic records is constantly increasing, leading to many training professions in many schools having benchmark scores that are almost absolute 10 points for each subject in the subject group. Therefore, he expressed the opinion that university entrance should limit or eliminate the admission based on academic records, limit the support for negativity, giving unrealistic scores, allowing the situation of excellent students to spread, affecting the quality of university entrance.

Furthermore, using academic transcripts to select university admissions would be very unfair to students from different regions. Like this teacher, many people also expressed their disapproval of university admissions based solely on academic transcripts.

However, that does not mean completely ignoring the report card score. This is still a necessary assessment factor to avoid students learning lopsidedly and being lazy in other subjects.

Source: https://congthuong.vn/xet-tuyen-dai-hoc-bang-hoc-ba-kho-phan-anh-nang-luc-thuc-chat-cua-hoc-sinh-de-na-y-sinh-tieu-cuc-360616.html