Over 1,600 12th-grade students participated in the aptitude test in Nghe An.

It's difficult to get a high score.

Over the two days of April 18th and 19th, 1,625 candidates participated in the exam at Vinh University.Aptitude testThis was the 4th time the National University of Hanoi held the exam. Compared to the number of registered candidates, the participation rate was nearly 100%, with only 40 students absent.

In this exam, quite a few candidates were 12th-grade students from Nghe An province. On the first day of the exam, Tran Van Dat, a student from class 12A1 at Thanh Chuong 1 High School, was one of the candidates who achieved a high score of 113/150. The male student also stated that this was his first time participating in this exam and he was quite satisfied with the results he achieved.

"I registered for the aptitude test with subjects including Math, Literature, and the optional Science combination with three subjects: Physics, Chemistry, and History. My scores were 39/35 and 39 points respectively. Personally, I found this year's exam not too difficult; a lot of the knowledge was from the textbooks, especially the theoretical questions."

After the first round of the exam, the male student who won second prize in Mathematics at the provincial-level 12th-grade excellent student competition also shared that because the exam had many questions and only a little over 3 hours, candidates should not spend too much time on difficult problems. "If I could retake the exam, I would finish the easy questions first before focusing on the difficult ones, so I wouldn't lose points unnecessarily," added Tran Van Dat.

In Dat's 12A1 class, out of 47 students, over 90% registered to take the aptitude tests. In the first three test rounds, the highest score achieved by a student in the class was 103 points. In the fourth round, eight students from the class took the test at Vinh University, achieving an average score of approximately 95 points. Despite these high scores, many students in the class stated they would continue to participate in other tests to improve their scores.

In class 12D of Le Viet Thuat High School, this fourth exam session also had 5 registered candidates, but most of them were taking the exam in the northern provinces. Nguyen Tran Gia Han, one of the few students who registered to take the exam at Vinh University, said: "This is my second time taking the exam and I only scored nearly 80 points. While the first time the Math and Literature exams were quite difficult, this time I struggled with English, especially the grammar."

After taking the aptitude test twice, this female student shared that she doesn't have much hope of getting into university based on her results. Therefore, she will focus more on the high school graduation exam. In addition, instead of choosing universities in Hanoi, Hân will prioritize applying to universities in the Central region because these universities mainly consider high school graduation exam scores.

Candidates who scored above 110 points accounted for less than 2%.

Across the country, the 4th National University of Hanoi's Aptitude Test in 2026 was also held in many other provinces and cities such as Hanoi, Hung Yen, and Ninh Binh, with approximately 20,000 candidates registering to take the exam.

According to the Institute of Digital Training and Testing – Vietnam National University, Hanoi, in the first three exam sessions of 2026, 57,240 candidates took the exam out of a total of 57,950 registered students (reaching 98.8%).

As a result, the highest score across all three exam rounds was 129 points, and the lowest was 22 points. Approximately 1.88% of candidates achieved a score of 110/150 or higher; 4.23% scored 105 or higher; 8.5% scored 100 or higher; 23.1% scored 90 or higher; 45.2% scored 80 or higher; and 58% scored 75 or higher.

This year, the Hanoi National University's aptitude test will be held in six sessions, from March to May, with over 120,000 candidates registering to take the exam. Currently, the results of the aptitude test are used by more than 100 universities nationwide for admissions.

Previously, in all the aptitude tests held, only in 2023 did Nghe An have one student from Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted achieve the top score in the aptitude test of Hanoi National University with 120/150 points.

In addition, two other students from Thai Hoa High School and Do Luong 3 High School achieved top scores in the Hanoi University of Science and Technology's Thinking Skills Assessment Exam.

This year, one of the students from Nghe An province who ranked in the top 2% of candidates with the highest scores is Nguyen Canh Hoang Vu, from class 12T2 - Huynh Thuc Khang High School.

My Ha