What are the regulations on the prizes of the exam for the selection of excellent students at the national level in Vietnam? What are the 04 rights of students achieving the prizes of national excellent students in Vietnam?

What are the regulations on the prizes of the exam for the selection of excellent students at the national level in Vietnam?

Under Article 32 of the Regulation on exams for the selection of excellent students at the national level issued together with Circular 17/2023/TT-BGDDT, the prizes of the exam for the selection of excellent students at the national level in Vietnam are specified as follows:

- Only personal prizes by each subject are arranged (First, Second, Third, and Consolation).

- After the exam papers are marked, the order of the header numbers shall be arranged by scores from high to low to determine prizes.

- Percentage of prizes for each subject:

The total number of prizes, from Consolation to above, shall not exceed 60% of the candidates; specifically, the total number of First, Second, and Third prizes shall not exceed 60% of the total number of prizes, and the number of First prizes shall not exceed 5% of the total number of prizes.

- Marking Teams shall develop schemes to arrange prizes and present them to the Chairperson of the Marking Council for assessment and handling as per regulation.

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What are the 04 rights of students achieving the prizes of national excellent students in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 35 of the Regulation on exams for the selection of excellent students at the national level issued together with Circular 17/2023/TT-BGDDT, the 04 rights of students achieving the prizes of national excellent students in Vietnam are as follows:

1. Students who achieve prizes in the exam for the selection of excellent students at the national level shall be issued with certificates and awarded with commendations.

2. Students who achieve prizes in the exam for the selection of national excellent students and have graduated from high schools shall be assessed for direct admission or prioritized for admission to universities and colleges according to current regulations on enrolment in universities and colleges of Preschool Education.

3. 12th-grade students participating in the exam for the selection of Olympic teams shall be exempted from taking the high school graduation exam.

4. Students who are members of Regional and International Olympic teams shall be directly admitted to universities according to current regulations and prioritized for being sent abroad for university training with state budget scholarships.

What are the regulations on taking action against individuals who commit violations of the Regulations on exams for the selection of excellent students at the national level in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 41 of the Regulation on exams for the selection of excellent students at the national level issued together with Circular 17/2023/TT-BGDDT:

+ Individuals participating in the exam organization who are officials and public employees who have committed acts of violation (detected during or after the exam) shall be suspended from performing exam-related tasks and disciplined by their employers according to official and public employee laws as follows:

+ Reprimand shall be issued to those who commit acts of violation for the first time with the severity below the ones specified in Points b, c, and d of Clause 1, Article 41 of the Regulation on exams for the selection of excellent students at the national level issued together with Circular 17/2023/TT-BGDDT during their operation;

+ Warning shall be issued to those who commit one of the following mistakes: Allowing candidates to copy from each other or bring forbidden documents and items to the exam room; failing to follow the marking guidelines or making multiple errors in calculating scores; setting question papers with content beyond the content prescribed in Article 5 of the Regulation on exams for the selection of excellent students at the national level issued together with Circular 17/2023/TT-BGDDT; sending exam data contrary to the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam;

+ Depending on the seriousness of the acts of violation, downgrade of salary grade or pay grade, dismissal, or transfer shall be imposed on those who commit one of the following acts of violation: Setting wrong question papers/subjects; writing the answers for candidates or instructing candidates to answer during the exam; taking one candidate’s exam paper to give to another candidate; cheating at marking, failing to follow the marking scheme, boosting or lessening scores of a candidate;

+ Dismissal or request for criminal prosecution shall be imposed on those who commit one of the following acts of violation: Bringing the question papers out of the exam area or bringing the answer keys from outside to the exam room during the exam; leaking out, buying, or selling the question papers; leaking out the header numbers; making alternation, interlineations, or omission in candidates’ exam papers; intentionally altering the written scores on exam papers, marking records, or list of scores; swapping candidates’ exam papers, headers, or scores; altering candidates’ academic transcripts and profiles;

+ Those who lose the exam papers of candidates during the process of collecting, delivering, preserving, or marking or commit other acts of violation during the exam organization shall be disciplined in the corresponding form of punishments specified in this Article according to the severity of their violations.

- Officials and public employees who do not participate in the exam organization but commit one of the following acts: Engaging in impersonation to take the exam for other candidates, bringing the question papers out of the exam room, providing candidates with answer keys, spreading false information about the exam, or causing disturbances within the exam area shall be fined and requested for dismissal.

- If a person who takes part in the organization of the exam or relevant processes is not an official or public employee and commits any act of violation as specified in Points b, c, d, dd Clause 1 of Article 41 of the Regulation on exams for the selection of excellent students at the national level issued together with Circular 17/2023/TT-BGDDT during or after the exam, he/she shall be fined by the competent authority and be handled under labor laws or suspended from study or expelled (in case he/she is a student).

- The application of the forms of handling of violations specified in Clauses 1, 2, and 3 of Article 41 of the Regulation on exams for the selection of excellent students at the national level issued together with Circular 17/2023/TT-BGDDT shall be decided by competent authorities according to the prescribed procedures.