The Military Enrollment Board, Ministry of National Defense has announced the specific time for organizing the competency assessment exam to serve the enrollment of universities and colleges in military schools (QDA) in 2026.
The exam will be held in 3 days, including 6 exam sessions, from June 19 - 21 in 3 areas.
In the North, the Military Technical Academy is the presiding unit, organizing at 5 exam sites: Military Technical Academy; Institute of Training - Testing, Vietnam National University, Hanoi; University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi; University of Transport; University of Dai Nam.
In the Central region, the exam location is the School of Information Officers (Bac Nha Trang ward, Khanh Hoa province).
In the Southern region, the exam location is Army Officer School No. 2 (Tam Phuoc ward, Dong Nai province).
The Military Enrollment Department, Ministry of National Defense will send the exam schedule and exam session directly to the exam registration email of the candidate. In addition, candidates can log in to their account on the QDA exam website to look up their exam schedule and exam session.
At the end of May, the Military Enrollment Board, Ministry of National Defense, announced reference questions for the competency assessment test to serve university and college entrance exams for military schools in 2026.
The exam questions are designed in the direction of assessing the core competencies of high school students achieved according to the general education program issued in 2018 by the Ministry of Education and Training.
Through the content of the general education program, the exam assesses competencies belonging to 3 core competency groups: Problem solving and creativity; communication and cooperation; autonomy and self-learning, understanding, discovering, applying knowledge of natural sciences and/or social sciences and some specific competencies: reasoning, logical thinking, language, calculation, informatics and English language proficiency.
The reference exam for competency assessment has illustrative questions similar to the official exam, including 3 parts, total score of 150: Math and data processing (80 minutes, 50 questions), Literature - Language (55 minutes, 50 questions) and Science or English (60 minutes, 50 questions).
For Science, candidates can choose one of four combinations including Physics - Chemistry, Chemistry - Biology, Physics - Biology, History - Geography.
The exam score is determined based on the total number of correct answers, difficulty, and differentiation of each question. Answers that are wrong or not answered are not counted. The score sheet includes the total score and scores of 3 parts of the exam. Candidates take the exam directly on computers in standard exam rooms. The score of the exam is automatically graded by the exam organization software.
The difficulty of the math and data processing, literature - language, science exams gradually increased from level 1 to level 3 and were divided according to the ratio: level 1 is 20%, level 2 is 60% and level 3 is 20%.
