Exam review: A candidate's score was raised from 0.6 to 7.2 points
A candidate in Dak Lak had his national high school math exam score raised from 0.6 to 7.2 (up to 6.6 points) after requesting a re-examination.
Specifically, after the Dak Lak Department of Education and Training announced the results of the 2018 national high school exam on July 11, a candidate in this locality was very surprised when his math test score was only 0.6 points. With this result, he was considered to have a failing score (1 or lower) and was at risk of failing graduation.
The math score of the candidate as announced earlier on July 11 was only 0.6. |
Before that, after finishing the exam, I compared the answers of the Ministry of Education and Training with my own test and estimated that I would get about 7 points. Therefore, right after getting the exam results, I submitted a request for review to the Department of Education and Training of Dak Lak province.
After a waiting period, the final exam score I received was adjusted to 7.2, an increase of 6.6 points compared to the initially announced score.
The national high school math exam score of the candidate after re-examination was increased to 6.6 points. |
Mr. Nguyen Hoang Chuong, Head of the Department of Examination and Education Quality Assessment (Dak Lak Department of Education and Training) confirmed that according to the content of the appeal petition, the Department has handled such a case.
Regarding the reason for this, Mr. Chuong said: "When taking the test, this candidate filled in the answers a bit faintly, so the multiple choice marking machine could not read all the answers, resulting in the candidate only getting 0.6 points. When we received this candidate's appeal, we proceeded to mark according to the Ministry of Education and Training's guidelines and the final result was 7.2 points."
According to Mr. Chuong, the re-scoring is done manually, which means taking the original test and checking it, and no longer using the multiple-choice scanner.
“We have returned the correct results to the candidates. The Department has also reported this to the Ministry of Education and Training and the National High School Exam Steering Committee,” said Mr. Chuong.
According to Mr. Chuong, this is the only case in the locality where the marking machine cannot read all the answers due to blurring.