Today, June 11, more than 1.2 million candidates nationwide took the Literature exam - 1 of the 2 compulsory subjects of this year's exam.
Official exam questions and reference answers will be updated by Lao Dong immediately after candidates leave the exam room.
Mr. Huynh Van Chuong - Director of the Department of Quality Management (Ministry of Education and Training) - said that the structure and format of this year's exam questions remain the same as the 2025 exam questions and the sample questions announced earlier.
Accordingly, the exam content is within the high school program, mainly grade 12, and there are some questions belonging to grade 10 and grade 11 knowledge. The exam is built according to the matrix of the Ministry of Education and Training, including levels of thinking: knowledge, understanding, application.
The 2026 high school graduation exam continues to be built according to the orientation to meet the requirements of testing learners' abilities and qualities, the proportion of differentiated questions as in 2025, including questions applying knowledge to solve real-life problems.
Candidates who are 12th grade students taking the 2026 high school graduation exam will have to take 2 compulsory subjects: Mathematics, Literature and one test consisting of 2 subjects selected from the remaining subjects: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Technology - Industry, Technology - Agriculture, Informatics, Foreign Language, History, Geography, Economics and Law. Candidates are allowed to choose to take a foreign language subject different from the foreign language learned at the high school.
Among the exam subjects, Literature is the only subject to be tested in essay form, the exam questions will continue to use materials outside of textbooks to overcome the situation of "reading and copying according to sample texts".
The Literature exam will have 2 parts: reading comprehension (4 points) and writing (6 points).
The Reading Comprehension section includes a reading comprehension material outside of textbooks and 5 reading comprehension questions arranged according to three levels of cognition: recognition, understanding, application.
The writing part will include one sentence requiring writing a paragraph and one sentence writing a essay, including both social commentary and literary commentary.
The remaining subjects are tested by candidates in multiple-choice format.
The questions for the multiple-choice exam are divided into 3 parts, in which part 1 includes questions in multiple-choice form, giving 4 options to choose 1 correct answer. Each correct answer gives candidates 0.25 points.
Part 2 includes questions in the multiple-choice format of True/False. Each question has 4 points, in each point candidates choose True or False.
Candidates who only choose exactly 1 idea in 1 question will get 0.1 points; choosing exactly 2 ideas in 1 question will get 0.25 points; choosing exactly 3 ideas in 1 question will get 0.5 points; choosing exactly all 4 ideas in 1 question will get 1 point.
Part 3, includes questions in the form of short answer multiple-choices. Candidates type in the cells corresponding to their answers. For Mathematics, each correct answer is 0.5 points, and for other subjects, they get 0.25 points.
