Add up to 4 bonus points in high school graduation exam

Candidates who win individual prizes in the national excellent student exam in cultural subjects for grade 12; who win individual and team prizes at provincial level or higher in practical exams in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, arts, physical education, etc. will all receive bonus points in the high school graduation exam.

The regulations on organizing the national high school exam and considering recognition of high school graduation in 2016 clearly stipulate the bonus points for priority and incentive categories in considering high school graduation.

Priority for graduation consideration:

Add 0.25 points for candidates in category 2 if they belong to one of the following categories:

- War invalids, sick soldiers, people who enjoy policies like war invalids, sick soldiers with labor capacity loss under 81% (only with GDTX); Children of war invalids, sick soldiers, people who enjoy policies like war invalids, sick soldiers with labor capacity loss under 81%; Heroes of the People's Armed Forces, Heroes of Labor; Symbol D2-TB2

- Children of Armed Forces Heroes, Labor Heroes, and Heroic Vietnamese Mothers. Code D2-CAH

- Ethnic minorities; Symbol D2-TS2

- Kinh people, foreigners residing in Vietnam with permanent residence registration for 3 years or more (as of the exam date) in extremely disadvantaged communes, border communes, safe zone communes under the investment program 135; in extremely disadvantaged communes in coastal and island areas according to current regulations of the Prime Minister; in extremely disadvantaged villages, communes in regions I, II, III in ethnic and mountainous areas according to current regulations of the Ethnic Committee, studying at general schools not located in inner-city districts of centrally-run cities for at least 2/3 of the time studying at high school level; Code D2-VS2

- People infected with Agent Orange; children of people infected with Agent Orange; children of resistance fighters infected with toxic chemicals; people recognized by competent authorities as having deformities, disabilities, or reduced ability to self-reliant in daily life or work due to consequences of toxic chemicals; Symbol D2-CHH

- Children of revolutionary activists before the August 19, 1945 General Uprising (for GDTX); Code D2-CCM

- Age 35 years or older, as of the exam date. Symbol D2-T35

Candidates who meet multiple priority criteria will only be eligible for the highest priority criteria. Illustration photo: Decision.

Add 0.5 points for candidates in category 3 who belong to one of the following categories:

- Ethnic minorities, with permanent residence in extremely disadvantaged communes, border communes, and safe zone communes under the investment program 135; in extremely disadvantaged communes in coastal and island areas according to current regulations of the Prime Minister; in extremely disadvantaged villages, communes in regions I, II, III in ethnic and mountainous areas according to current regulations of the Ethnic Committee, studying at ethnic boarding schools or general schools not located in inner-city districts of centrally-run cities; Symbol D3-TS3

- War invalids, sick soldiers, people enjoying policies like war invalids and sick soldiers with reduced working capacity of 81% or more (for GDTX); Symbol D3-TB3

- Children of martyrs; children of war invalids and sick soldiers; people who enjoy the same policies as war invalids and sick soldiers and have a working capacity reduction of 81% or more. Symbol D3-CLS

Candidates with multiple priority criteria will only benefit from the highest criterion.

Encouragement points in high school graduation exam

Candidates won individual prizes in the 12th grade cultural subject excellent student exam:

- Add 2 points for first, second, third prize at national level or first prize at provincial level.

- Add 1.5 points for national consolation prize or provincial second prize.

- Add 1 point for third prize at provincial level.

Candidates who won individual and team prizes in practical experiments in Physics, Chemistry, Biology; arts; physical education and sports; national defense education sports; science and technology competitions; international letter writing competitions organized by the Education sector in coordination with specialized sectors from provincial level and above at high school level.

- Add 2 points for first, second, third national prizes or first provincial prizes or Gold medals.

- Add 1.5 points for national consolation prize or provincial second prize or Silver medal.

- Add 1 point for third prize at provincial level or Bronze medal.

Team prizes are only counted for national prizes, the extra points are the same as individual prizes.Students who win multiple awards will only receive the bonus points of the highest award.

Candidates with a Vocational Certificate will receive 2 points for Excellent; 1.5 points for Good; 1 point for Average.

If GDTX students have a Foreign Language A or Information Technology A certificate or higher (including technicians), they will receive 1 additional point for each type of certificate.

The maximum incentive points for the above items are not more than 4 points and arereserved throughout the grade level.

According to VNE