At the exam site of Binh An Secondary School (District 8), although it was only 9:30 am that the exam registration time started, many students were present since 8:00 am.
Huynh Bao Linh, a student at Phan Dang Luu Secondary School (District 8), said he was quite worried. Bao Linh has registered her first wish to enter Hung Vuong High School (District 5).
"This year, the exam structure has changed a lot, especially Literature when the exam materials will be taken outside of textbooks. This is a challenge for us," said Bao Linh.
Anxiety mixed with a little worry is also the feeling of Vo Thi My Ngoc. My Ngoc registered her first wish to enter Luong Van Can High School (District 8).
"Literature is my best exam subject, while Math and English are only average," My Ngoc said.
Mr. Pho Trong Huy - Vice Chairman of the exam scoring council of Binh An Secondary School said that the exam scores have a total of 511 candidates taking the exam with 22 official exam rooms and 3 reserve exam rooms.
The 2025 10th grade entrance exam in Ho Chi Minh City will take place over 2 days, June 6-7, with 76,435 students taking the exam. The total enrollment target of public high schools is 70,070 students. This year's 10th grade exam is the first exam according to the 2018 general education program.
Candidates will take 3 subjects: Math, Literature (120 minutes/subject) and Foreign Language (90 minutes, according to foreign language 1 being studied at school). Candidates who register for a specialized school or integrated class will take an additional exam in a specialized subject or equivalent integrated (150 minutes).
According to regulations, when coming to the contest, candidates need to bring their citizen identification card and registration form. In case the candidate has not been granted a citizen identification card, the student card must be presented.
If there are errors in the full name, full name, date, month, year of birth, or priority subject, they must immediately report to the supervisor or the person on duty at the exam review board for timely handling.
Candidates who arrive more than 15 minutes later than the test time signal will not be allowed to take the exam.
Candidates are allowed to bring into the exam room, including: writing Butts, lines, pencils, pencils, ethnic documents, Graphic drawing measures, drawing tools; Handheld computers without the function of drafting documents, no memory card, not integrated with a circulation table of chemical elements; historical and geographical map collection of grade 9 - geography section (according to the 2018 GDPT Program - Vietnam Education Publishing House).
Prohibiting the introduction into the exam room of: Coal paper, pens, alcoholic beverages, weapons and explosives, fireworks; documents, communication equipment (collection, information broadcasting, recording, recording) or containing information for cheating during the exam; chemical element circulation table and solvent table.
Candidates can only leave the exam room after 2/3 of the test time and must submit the exam, the exam and the draft paper before leaving the exam room or exam area; If candidates necessarily temporarily leave the examination room, the examination room supervisor must notify the supervisor to see the exam to coordinate the implementation; The examination of the examination room, the exam area of the candidate in case the emergency is required to be supervised by the police and the supervision supervisor to see the exam until the end of the examination of the exam and by the Chairman of the Examination Council.
