Will change the regulation on rounding multiple choice scores of the national high school exam

Instead of rounding to 0.25 like in 2015, the Ministry of Education and Training plans to round scores to only two decimal places to ensure fairness.

Draft circular on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the National High School Examination Regulations just announced by the Ministry of EducationScore and convert scores by computer to a 10-point scale, rounded to two decimal places for each multiple-choice test.

Thus, the grading will still be on a 10-point scale, but the rounding of scores for multiple-choice tests will change. If according to the current regulations, the computer-based score conversion is to a 10-point scale (up to 0.25) for each multiple-choice test, the new draft will round to two decimal places for each multiple-choice test.

Candidates for the 2015 national high school exam season. Photo: Giang Huy.

The Deputy Director of the Department of Testing and Quality Control said that if the multiple-choice test still consists of 50 questions, each worth 0.2 points as last year, there will be no rounding. If the number of questions and points in the multiple-choice test changes, rounding will be done according to the model, for example, candidates are6.126 is rounded to 6.13.

Mr. Nghia said that this regulation comes from the reality of the previous admission season, when many candidates spoke up about being disadvantaged when rounding their scores. Some students who got 4.4 were rounded up to 4.5, while others who got 4.6 were rounded down to 4.5. If that student was unlucky enough to have their scores rounded down in all three multiple-choice subjects, it would be a huge disadvantage.

"Therefore, the Ministry has issued new regulations to minimize the limitations arising during the exam organization process," said Mr. Nghia.

Previously in 2015, when the Ministry of Education announcedThe score distribution chart of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology has columns showing odd scores of 0.5 that are unusually high, even twice as high as the scores of 0.25 and 0.75 next to them. Sharing with VnExpress, a measurement expert confirmed that the above abnormality comes from rounding scores.three subjects Physics, Chemistry, BiologyThese three subjects are all multiple choice tests with 50 questions, so each question will be worth 0.2 points. Candidates who score 0.2 will have their score rounded up to 0.25, those who score 0.4 and 0.6 will be rounded up to 0.5, and 0.8 will be rounded up to 0.75.

"Thus, by intuition, it can be seen that the number of students rounded to 0.5 odd points will be twice as many as the two odd points of 0.25 and 0.75. That is why the columns showing odd points of 0.5 are so high on the chart," the expert said.Rounding by subject will disadvantage students who get odd scores of 0.6, because this is the university score range, so when combining 3 subjects of block A and B, students will be at a disadvantage.

According to VNE