Important timelines
The Ministry of Education and Training has just issued a draft guiding university and college admissions, outlining the time frames for university admissions.
Accordingly, the 2025 high school graduation exam will take place on June 26-27.
Candidates eligible for direct admission, with priority for direct admission, must submit their application to the university by June 30 at the latest, to receive results before July 15.
The new point is that instead of enrolling as early as every year, this group must continue to register their wishes on the Ministry's system to be considered according to the general schedule.
The Ministry will announce the 2025 high school graduation exam scores on July 16.
From July 16 to 5:00 p.m. on July 28, candidates can register, adjust, and supplement their university admission wishes, with no limit on the number of times. Before that, candidates will be allowed to practice registering for the exam.
After having high school graduation exam scores, universities will announce the threshold for input quality assurance (landing point). For the pedagogical and health science majors, the floor score was announced before 5:00 p.m. on July 23.
Candidates pay the online admission fee from July 29 to 5:00 p.m. on August 5. After that, the Ministry of Education and Training and universities will process the admission wishes (virtual exam) in 6 times, from August 16 to 5:00 p.m. on August 20. After that time, schools began to announce the standard scores.
After having the standard score, admitted candidates must confirm their admission on the system, no later than 5:30 p.m. on August 30.
The Ministry requires schools not to organize school admissions before August 22. Additional admission rounds start from September 1 to the end of the year.
The detailed expected schedule of the admission process is as follows:
Expected formula for converting benchmark scores
The highlight of this year's admission season is that there is no longer early admission, when considering admission, the academic records must use the academic results of the entire 12th grade year. Universities are still allowed to use many admission methods, but must consider the same round as the graduation exam scores, and at the same time convert the scores between methods and combinations to a common scale.
The Ministry of Education and Training requires the use of a suitable foreign language certificate to convert to a foreign language subject in admission; the total bonus score does not exceed 10% of the maximum score of the consideration scale.
For the high school graduation exam, the group of candidates studying the current high school program (2018) must take 4 exams, including Math and Literature.
In addition, students choose two subjects they have studied at school (Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Geography, History, Economic and Legal Education, Information Technology, Technology and Foreign Language).
The group following the old program (2006) will take the Literature, Math, Foreign Language exam, one of two natural science (Physics, Chemistry, Biology) and social science (History, Geography, Civic Education).
Also in the draft guidance for university admissions in 2025, the Ministry of Education and Training proposed a formula for converting the benchmark score to 1 scale. Candidates can follow HERE.
