Police determined that Son La violated national high school exam regulations.

On the evening of July 21, a representative of the Internal Political Security Department (A83) - Ministry of Public Security said that after two days of work, the working group of the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Education and Training initially discovered violations in the national high school exam regulations in Son La.

According to this person, the Son La Department of Education's Examination Council has not strictly followed the procedures for marking, preserving, and sealing exam papers. There are problems in the steps of preparing for the exam invigilation and marking.

To clarify who violated or interfered with this process, the working group is still reviewing the entire process, the stages of guarding the exam papers, grading the exams... "The working group had to work through the night and both weekends, and will definitely have to speed up the progress to finish early and announce it to the public," this person said.

Previously, Son La province caused a stir in public opinion when the rate of candidates scoring 9-10 in Math and Physics was far higher than the "land of learning" such as Hanoi, Nam Dinh, and Ho Chi Minh City, while the average score of all subjects was among the lowest in the country.

The province has 13 candidates scoring 9 or higher in Physics, accounting for 0.97% of the total of nearly 1,340 candidates taking the exam. Meanwhile, with more than 37 times more exam papers (49,680), the percentage of candidates in Ho Chi Minh City achieving this score is only 0.08%, 12 times lower than Son La. In Mathematics, Son La has 30 students scoring 9 points, accounting for nearly 0.3% of the total number of candidates taking the exam. This percentage in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Nam Dinh is 0.04; 0.1 and 0.06 respectively.

To verify the signs of irregularities in Son La's national high school exam scores, on July 18, Minister of Education Phung Xuan Nha signed a decision to establish a working group to clarify the matter. The group includes officials from the Department of Quality Management, the Ministry of Education Inspectorate, and A83 of the Ministry of Public Security.