Do students in Vietnam who have been absent for more than 45 days for medical reasons advance to the next grade?

Do students in Vietnam who have been absent for more than 45 days for medical reasons advance to the next grade?

Pursuant to Article 12 of the Circular 22/2021/TT-BGDĐT stipulating grade advancement, re-assessment during summer break, and grade retention as follows:

1. A student who meets following eligibility may advance to the next grade or be recognized as to have completed lower education program or upper education program:

a) Training results of the entire school year (including re-assessment results after training during summer break according to Article 13 hereof) are Qualified or higher.

b) Learning results of the entire school year (including re-assessment results of all subjects according to Article 14 hereof) is Qualified or higher.

c) Number of days leave does not exceed 45 half-days (calculated according to education plans which is 1 half-day for every day under formal education plan, including permitted leave, unpermitted leave, continuous leave, and intermittent leave).

2. In case a student must undergo training during summer break, comply with Article 13 hereof; students must attend re-examination or re-assessment of subjects during summer break as per Article 14 hereof.

3. A student who does not meet all eligibility under Clause 1 of this Article are not allowed to advance to the next grade or recognized as to have completed lower secondary education level or upper secondary education level.

4. For students with disabilities: Principals shall rely on assessment results of students with disabilities as per Article 11 hereof to consider grade advancement or recognition of completion of lower secondary education level or upper secondary education level.

According to the above regulations, one of the conditions for secondary school students to advance to the next grade is not to miss more than 45 days of school (regardless of the reason). Therefore, your daughter, who missed more than 45 days of school to go to Ho Chi Minh City for treatment, will not be able to advance to the next grade.

Do students in Vietnam who have been absent for more than 45 days for medical reasons advance to the next grade? - Source: Internet

When do students in Vietnam who have not met the full year's training results in grade 7 need to retrain?

Pursuant to Article 13 of the Circular 22/2021/TT-BGDĐT stipulating training during summer break as follows:

1. A student with Unqualified training results for the whole school year must undergo training during summer break.

2. Forms of training during summer break shall be decided by principals.

3. Based on forms of training during summer break, class advisors shall assign summer training tasks to students and inform students’ parents. At the end of the summer, if training tasks are considered completed by class advisors (reports on training progress and results must be produced and bear signatures of students' parents), class advisors shall request principals to conduct re-assessment of training results of the entire school year of students. Re-assessment results shall be used in place of training results of the entire school year which are used for considering grade advancement under Article 12 hereof.

According to the regulations above, if your daughter's full year's training results are evaluated as unsatisfactory, she will need to retrain in the summer vacation. The results of the retraining in the summer vacation will replace the full year's training results.

What are regulations on re-examination and re-assessment of subjects during summer break for secondary school students in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 14 of the Circular 22/2021/TT-BGDĐT stipulating re-examination and re-assessment of subjects during summer break as follows:

Students who are ineligible for grade advancement while obtaining Qualified training results for the entire school year and Unqualified learning results for the entire school year may receive re-assessment of learning results of subjects in which the students achieve Unqualified results (for subjects assessed via feedback) and subjects with DTBmcn less than 5.0 (for subjects assessed via both feedback and scores). Re-assessment results of a subject shall be used in place of learning results for the entire year of respective subject for considering grade advancement under Article 12 hereof.

Above are regulations on re-examination and re-assessment of subjects during summer break for secondary school students in Vietnam.

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