Universities must announce admission thresholds by July 15

Schools must announce the threshold for ensuring input quality before July 15 so that candidates can use it as a basis to adjust their wishes. Then, from July 23-25, the application receiving points must complete, update information and adjust candidates' admission registration wishes to the Ministry of Education and Training.

On June 12 and 13, at Nguyen Tat Thanh University, the Ministry of Education and Training organized a training course on the use of the 2017 university and college admissions software for representatives of more than 170 universities and colleges (from Quang Binh and further south).

Announcement of entry threshold before July 15

At this training course, delegates were given detailed instructions on how to export data for admission software, steps to enter data, adjust input parameters, and how to enter preliminary selection results. In addition, there are steps to enter aptitude scores, enter information of candidates who are admitted directly, how to filter fake candidates, export data after filtering fake candidates, as well as how to export expected admission results to send to the Ministry of Education and Training so that the Ministry can conduct final filtering to complete admission procedures for candidates.

Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Anh Tuan, Deputy Director of the Department of Higher Education, shares issues of enrollment in 2017.

Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Anh Tuan, Deputy Director of the Department of Higher Education, said that this year, the Ministry of Education and Training will train on real data (number of candidates applying to schools) with a total of 660,000 applications and scores are assumed results. The virtual filtering process will be performed 3 times after schools enter the data to the Ministry of Education and Training.

According to Mr. Tuan, the Ministry of Education and Training has established 2 virtual candidate filtering groups, in which the Northern group has 52 schools and the Southern group has 72 schools. The training results in the North have just been completed, some schools after running virtual filtering have results exceeding the target by up to 230%.

In the admission process, Mr. Tuan said that from July 15 to 23, candidates will adjust their wishes in two ways: online method to only adjust wishes (not allowed to increase the number of wishes) and direct submission method at the school (allowed to increase wishes and must pay a fee of 30,000 VND/wish).

In addition, Mr. Tuan also requested that schools announce the threshold for ensuring input quality (if any) before July 15 so that candidates can use it as a basis to adjust their wishes. Then, from July 23 to 25, the application receiving points must complete, update information and adjust candidates' admission registration wishes to the Ministry.

Mr. Tuan emphasized that because this year the common database is used, any school that does not fully understand the admission process and schedule will affect the entire system. If just one school does not submit data to the system, the results of filtering fake candidates will also be affected.

Schools that do not participate in the admission group will have difficulty filtering out fake candidates.

Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Van Nghia, Deputy Director of the Department of Quality Management of the Ministry of Education and Training, noted that the most difficult issue this year is determining the virtual rate. Therefore, in order for virtual filtering to be carried out accurately, schools need to provide complete data to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Van Nghia, Deputy Director of the Department of Quality Management, Ministry of Education and Training, talks about virtual filtering.

For candidates who are directly admitted, admitted under a separate admission plan and enrolled in the school, the schools must upload the common data so that the Ministry can lock the data of these candidates, avoiding re-examination.

According to Mr. Nghia, schools that participate in the general admission group will eliminate many fake candidates. Schools that do not participate in the admission group will have difficulty calculating fake candidates.

This year, during the admission process, schools will have 3 virtual filtering sessions. After each filtering session, the Ministry of Education and Training will notify schools to know and adjust the standard score up or down. If any school intentionally recruits more students, the Ministry of Education and Training will impose sanctions on that school.

Representatives from 170 universities and colleges in the Southern region participated in the 2017 enrollment training.

The Ministry of Education and Training also said that the virtual filtering process will take place 3 times from July 28 to 30. Accordingly, candidates who are directly admitted or admitted according to a separate admission plan, candidates who apply for admission to a school must have their information uploaded to the common database so that the Ministry can lock the information, to avoid the case where this candidate will apply for admission again.

The virtual filtering process of the 2017 enrollment software is built on the principle of respecting the autonomy of schools. The decision on the benchmark scores and the list of successful candidates are all decided by the schools themselves without any intervention from the Ministry of Education and Training. Using the "virtual filtering" enrollment software also creates conditions for candidates with high scores to be admitted to the right major they want, while limiting the cases of high scores but being admitted to majors with low entrance scores.

According to Dantri