Is it Permissible to Bring Red Pens into the High School Graduation Examination Room?
Point m, n Clause 4 Article 14 of the High School Graduation Examination Regulations issued with Circular 15/2020/TT-BGDDT stipulates:
Only the following items are allowed in the examination room: Pens, pencils, compasses, erasers, rulers, and calculation rulers; pocket calculators without text editing functions and without memory cards (as specified in the guidelines for the organization of the annual high school graduation examinations by the Ministry of Education and Training); the Vietnam Geography Atlas for the Geography exam (without any marks or additional contents) published by the Vietnam Education Publishing House; types of audio and video recorders that only have the function of recording information but cannot listen, view, and cannot transmit or receive information, audio signals, or images directly without other supporting devices;
It is prohibited to bring into the examination room: carbon paper, correction pens, alcoholic beverages; weapons, and explosive or flammable substances; documents, communication devices, or information-containing devices that can be exploited for cheating during the test-taking and grading process.
According to the above regulations, only correction pens are prohibited in the examination room, other types of pens are not mentioned, meaning they can be brought into the examination room, including red pens. Therefore, you can bring red pens into the examination room.
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