As of 6 pm on April 16, according to statistics from Lao Dong Newspaper reporters, the school with the most registered aspirations is Bac Luong Son High School with 7,181 aspirations. With a quota of 540, this school has a competition ratio of over 1/13.
Next is Tu Lap High School (nearly 7,000 quotas), Dai Mo High School also has more than 6,300 aspirations out of a total quota of 720 students.
Some schools with over 5,000 wishes include Dai Cuong, Do Muoi, Thach Ban, Phuc Thinh, Tho Xuan, Minh Quang, Luu Hoang,...
Hanoi's top 1 schools such as Yen Hoa High School, Kim Lien, Le Quy Don - Ha Dong, Phan Dinh Phung, Viet Duc... have registration numbers fluctuating between 1,800 and nearly 3,000.
Last year, Kim Lien and Le Quy Don High Schools - Ha Dong were the schools with the highest benchmark scores with 25.5 points; followed by Viet Duc and Phan Dinh Phung High Schools with the same benchmark score of 25.25 points.
Conversely, 6 schools with the lowest benchmark scores of 10 last year, including Tho Xuan High School, Bac Luong Son, Minh Quang, Ung Hoa B, Luu Hoang and Dai Cuong. Students only need to get over 3 points in each subject to pass.
Thus, up to now, schools with low benchmark scores last year are among the top schools with the most aspirations.
For many years, the 10th grade exam in Hanoi has always been the most stressful in the country. This year, for the first time, the city allows temporarily residing students to take the exam, registering for 3 random aspirations instead of dividing them into areas as in previous years.
Another new point is that students can register online, track the number of aspirations in each school in real time as well as be able to change aspirations unlimited times within 8 days. After April 17, the system is closed, parents cannot change aspirations anymore.
Ms. Le Minh Phuong - a parent whose child is in 9th grade in Tu Liem ward, Hanoi - said that these changes create fairness in access to education but also make competition for admission to schools higher, creating anxiety for parents.
Not to mention, the rate of entering 10th grade public high schools this year is only 55% out of 147,000 secondary school graduates, much lower than in recent years (about 62-64%).
Although she has registered her child for Xuan Phuong High School for nguyện vọng 1 and nguyện vọng 2 for Dai Mo High School, Ms. Phuong is still not really reassured.
And tomorrow is the deadline, I still regularly monitor on the system. If the number of applications to Xuan Phuong High School continues to increase, I may have to consider other options for my child. It is possible to push Dai Mo High School up to nguyện vọng 1 and register nguyện vọng 2, 3 for schools with lower competition rates" - Ms. Phuong said.
Ms. Nguyen Phuong Nga (Trung Van ward, Hanoi) has registered 3 aspirations for 10th grade for her child, including: Yen Hoa High School, Nhan Chinh High School, Trung Van High School.
She shared that the criteria for choosing a school for her family are her children's academic ability, convenient bus travel, good facilities, and proximity to home.
My child's academic ability is about 24 - 26 points in 3 subjects. The schools I registered for my child have a very high competition ratio. For example, Yen Hoa High School, by 6 pm this afternoon, there were more than 2,600 first-choice applications while the total target is 756" - Ms. Nga said.
