Director of the Department of Quality Management notes on the 2024 high school graduation exam

On February 25, the Ministry of Education and Training, the Department of Education and Training of Da Nang and Thanh Nien Newspaper organized the 2024 exam season consultation program at Phan Chau Trinh High School.

2024 is the last year of the high school graduation exam according to the 2006 General Education Program. Many candidates are wondering if the format and structure of the exam is any different from previous years?

Mr. Huynh Van Chuong - Director of the Department of Quality Management, Ministry of Education and Training said: "The high school graduation exam must achieve 3 goals: to consider graduation, for schools to evaluate the teaching and learning process in 3 years and use those results to consider university, college and vocational secondary school admissions. In recent years, nearly 60% have used the results of the high school graduation exam to consider university and college admissions".

The Department of Quality Management is advising the Ministry to continue using high school graduation exam results for university admission, with some adjustments.

Specifically, according to Mr. Huynh Van Chuong, the format and structure of this year's high school graduation exam is exactly the same as in 2022 and 2023. However, there are some points that candidates need to note: "Some application and high-level application questions will be more practical and have higher differentiation to help universities differentiate candidates and consider university admissions in addition to graduation. There are some questions that are close to assessing capacity and aiming for the 2025 high school graduation exam".

Mr. Huynh Van Chuong also reminded candidates that foreign language certificates are only exempted from graduation exams. If a university admission candidate has a foreign language subject in the admission combination, he/she must still take this subject to get the admission result. This is the autonomy of universities.

The draft regulations for the 2024 high school graduation exam announced also expands the types of foreign language certificates used to exempt foreign language exams in graduation recognition. These certificates are prestigious certificates, recognized by the Ministry of Education and Training in various documents and used in the national education system for many years.

Mr. Huynh Van Chuong said that this year, the Ministry will announce a list of foreign language certificates that will be exempted from the high school graduation exam, expected in early March 2024. Candidates need to pay attention to update information and compare with the diplomas and certificates they have.

Before the exam, candidates are expected to supplement all foreign language certificates with full legal validity as prescribed by the Ministry to be exempted from the foreign language exam in the 2024 graduation recognition consideration, creating general fairness for students and recognized foreign language certificates./.