Today, nearly 3,000 Nghe An candidates 'race' to enter specialized schools.

This is the first time the Nghe An Department of Education and Training has applied the same exam questions for two specialized schools in the province.

Candidates check in to the exam room. Photo: Thanh Cuong

In the morning, candidates will take specialized subjects including Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Information Technology, Literature, History, Geography, English, French, and Russian.

This is also the first year the Department organized an English exam for Russian specialized classes and adjusted the exam time for all specialized subjects to 150 minutes (instead of 120 minutes as before for Chemistry specialized classes and Foreign Language specialized classes).

In the first exam session, at Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted, the candidates entered the exam room in a quite relaxed mood.

Candidate Nguyen Thuy Linh - Le Loi Secondary School, taking the exam for the French specialized class, said: Our exam room only has 1 candidate from Hermann Gmeiner High School, the rest are students of Le Loi Secondary School. This is also a specialized class with a fairly low registration rate, so we are not too worried.

Instructions for candidates to fill in information on the exam paper. Photo: Thanh Cuong

In the 2019 entrance exam to Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted, there were 1,254 applications. Of which, the English class had the largest number of applications with 224 applications. Next, the Chemistry class had the second largest number of applications with 181 applications, followed by the Literature class with 166 applications, the Physics class with 156 applications, the Math class with 153 applications and the Biology class with 129 applications.

In the remaining specialized classes, Russian specialized has 54 applications; French specialized, History specialized, Geography specialized classes have the number of applications from 28 to 47 applications.

At Vinh University High School for the Gifted, this year the school has nearly 1,500 applications and the most concentrated is still the English specialized class with 515 applications. The remaining classes, Chemistry specialized has 216 applications, Physics specialized has 183 applications, Biology specialized has 104 applications, IT specialized wish 1 has 112 applications, second wish has 155 applications, Math specialized has 206 applications and Literature specialized has 198 applications.

Disseminate the exam regulations to candidates. Photo: Thanh Cuong

This year, the examination councils did not hold an opening ceremony. After gathering in the examination room, the examinees were informed of the examination regulations and reminded of the things they should pay attention to when taking the exam, to avoid making mistakes that could affect the results.