More than 3,500 12th graders attend the Nghe An Province Excellent Student Competition

Today (October 10), 3,516 grade 12 students in the province officially participated.Provincial Excellent Student Exam Grade 12, school year 2025 - 2026. The number of candidates taking the exam this year is equivalent to previous school years.

In this year's exam, candidates will take 13 subjects including Mathematics, Information Technology, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Literature, History, Geography, Economic and Legal Education, English, French, Russian and Japanese.

The subject with the largest number of candidates was English with 444 students. Next were Mathematics with 361 students, Physics with 345 students, Chemistry with 350 students, Literature with 375 students, Biology with 350 students, Geography with 358 students, History with 333 students, Economic and Legal Education with 319 students, French with 31 students, Japanese with 34 students and Russian with 27 students.

According to the plan, the Provincial Excellent Student Exam will be held in 3 sessions with 152 exam rooms at 4 exam locations: Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted, Huynh Thuc Khang High School, Ha Huy Tap High School and Le Viet Thuat High School. This afternoon, candidates will take the first exam subjects including Chemistry, History, English, Economic and Legal Education.

This is the first exam to be held after the implementation of the two-level local government. Previously, after abolishing the district level, the Nghe An Department of Education and Training issued new regulations on provincial-level exams for excellent students in grades 9 and 12.

In which, 12th grade students will take the exam in 3 groups and depending on the number of classes, according to the group, schools will be able to send from 1 to 7 candidates to take the exam/subject. The selection of candidates for the exam to select excellent students at all levels is carried out according to the principle of selecting from high to low according to the exam scores in the exam to form the team organized by the unit registering to take the exam.

Specifically, table A includes high schools across the province.

For the following schools: Ky Son High School, Tuong Duong 1 High School, Tuong Duong 2 High School, Con Cuong High School, Muong Qua High School, Que Phong High School, Quy Chau High School and Quy Hop 3 High School; and non-public high schools, students will take the exam in group B.

Grade 12 students of GDTX high school will take a separate exam.

According to the Regulations on Excellent Student Competition of the Department of Education and Training, the prize ratio for each subject/test content will be calculated according to the exam table. In which, the total number of prizes (from the Encouragement Prize and above) shall not exceed 70% of the number of candidates taking the exam. In which, the total number of First, Second, and Third prizes shall not exceed 75% of the total number of prizes; the number of First prizes shall not exceed 5% of the total number of prizes (excluding the number of special First prizes for candidates in the National Excellent Student Competition team).

The minimum score to consider the types of awards is specifically determined by the Examination Council for each subject/exam content, but the Encouragement Prize is guaranteed to be no less than 10.0 points (on a 20-point scale).