Dang Thai Mai Secondary School stops direct admission to grade 6 with international English certificates

Dang Thai Mai Secondary School(Vinh city) has just announced the enrollment plan for grade 6, school year 2024 - 2025. Accordingly, this year the school will enroll 8 classes with 305 students. The school's enrollment method is a combination of admission and ability testing.

Of these, the school will enroll 5 classes (200 students) according to the high-quality key school model for students who have completed the primary education program in the 2023-2024 school year at primary schools in Vinh city. Students eligible to take the exam must have 5 years of primary school with awards for excellent completion of learning and training content.

If students only have 4 years of being awarded for excellent completion of learning and training content, they need to have one of the following certificates or diplomas: Winning prizes in national competitions held in the 2023-2024 school year such as: Top Talented Champion, Top Vietnamese Champion, Junior Champion, "Children's Ideas" Playground; Reading Culture Ambassador Competition... In addition, students have certificates at the Provincial Youth Informatics Competition, Provincial Reading Culture Ambassador, winning First, Second, Third prizes at the Provincial Phu Dong Sports Festival, winning prizes in the City-level "Children's Math" Olympic competition.

In addition, the school also gives priority to students who have participated in a number of rounds at the English Challenge playground, students with one of the international English certificates such as Flyers, Ket, Pet, FCE, TOEFL or equivalent.

According to the school's plan, if the number of applications is equal to the enrollment quota, all students will be admitted. If the number is less, additional enrollment quotas will be recruited based on the survey scores of the two subjects Math and Vietnamese in the year-end quality handover period. In case there are more applications than the quota, students will take a 90-minute competency assessment test.

In addition to the key classes, the school will conduct a combined admission test and competency test for 3 classes (105 students) to implement the advanced school model according to the integration trend. The candidates are students in the Hung Phuc ward's universal education program, students with 4 years of primary school who have been awarded for excellent completion. If a student has only 3 years of excellent completion, there must be some additional criteria equivalent to the admission criteria for the key class.

According to the school's plan, this year the exam is expected to be held on June 2.

Thus, with this announcement, this year Dang Thai Mai Secondary School has abandoned the method of admission by international English certificates. In previous years, with this method, many primary school students in Nghe An had IELTS 6.0 or 6.5 certificates and were admitted directly to the school. However, this method did not receive the consent of many parents because they believed that, for primary school students, direct admission by international English certificates would create a race for certificates and was not suitable for primary school.

Also in this announcement, Dang Thai Mai Secondary School also announced the curriculum for students in high-quality key classes and advanced classes. In both of these programs, students will study intensive subjects such as IC3 Informatics, enhanced English, develop cultural subjects' abilities and talents such as Literature, Math, English, and develop sports talents.

Advanced class students will also study Life Skills Education and Stem. Tuition for core classes is 1,240,500/month and advanced classes is 1,478,000/month. This amount does not include boarding lunch and boarding costs at school.

Regarding the enrollment of grade 6 for the 2024-2025 school year, previously, according to the guidance of the Department of Education and Training, the Heads of the Department of Education and Training of districts, cities and towns based on the enrollment regulations and the actual situation of the locality advised the People's Committees of districts, cities and towns to issue the enrollment plan for grade 6 for the 2024-2025 school year for implementation.

Enrollment requires the following requirements: Ensuring the implementation of the task of universalizing education in the area; Ensuring the scale of schools, classes, and students according to the development plan approved by the Department of Education and Training; Ensuring the enrollment of disabled students who need to study at secondary schools in the area; Ensuring compliance with regulations for enrollment in secondary boarding schools for ethnic minorities.

According to the Department's instructions: For secondary schools with the number of students applying for admission not exceeding the enrollment quota, the admission method will be implemented, accepting students who have completed the Primary School program to study in grade 6 of secondary school.

For secondary schools with a number of students applying for admission greater than the enrollment quota, the enrollment plan will be implemented by the selection method or a combination of selection and testing and assessment of student capacity.

Competency assessment tests must not exceed the Ministry's prescribed curriculum, must not put pressure on students, and must ensure assessment of students' ability to apply knowledge acquired during the learning process to solve specific problems.

Time to complete enrollment for grade 6 secondary school, before August 15, 2024.