On December 24, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) issued Circular No. 24/2024/TT-BGDDT, officially regulating the Regulations on high school graduation exams from 2025.
The new regulations mark an important shift in exam organization, with the goal of assessing students' comprehensive abilities, instead of focusing only on testing knowledge and skills like previous exams.
The 2025 high school graduation exam is scheduled to take place on June 26-27. One of the biggest changes to the high school graduation exam from 2025 is that it will be held in 3 sessions instead of 4 sessions as before.
Candidates will take three exams including Literature, Mathematics and one optional exam. Shortening the exam time and reducing the number of subjects not only reduces pressure on students but also helps save on organization costs, while still ensuring the quality of competency assessment.
The next new point is that the process assessment score (academic transcript) will account for 50% of the total graduation recognition score, instead of 30% as before.
The report card scores of all three years of high school are taken into account, with the highest weighting belonging to grade 12. This change is intended to encourage students to study seriously from grade 10 and to better reflect their comprehensive abilities according to the 2018 General Education Program.
International language certificates such as IELTS and TOEFL will still be used to exempt foreign language exams, but will no longer be converted into 10 points in graduation recognition. This change ensures fairness among candidates and overcomes the unevenness between the converted scores of previous international certificates.
The regulation on bonus points for vocational certificates, information technology and foreign languages has been removed. This applies to both regular and continuing education students, creating equality in graduation recognition and degree granting.
