Schedule for Thinking Skills Assessment for university admission in 2025 in Vietnam
Schedule for Thinking Skills Assessment for university admission in 2025 in Vietnam
Thinking Skills Assessment is a new testing format increasingly adopted by many universities in Vietnam. Unlike traditional exams focused purely on academic knowledge, this type of exam emphasizes evaluating candidates' logical thinking, analysis, problem-solving, and other soft skills.
Below is the schedule for Thinking Skills Assessment for university admission in 2025 in Vietnam:
[1] Thinking Skills Assessment of Hanoi National University
Hanoi National University plans to organize 6 rounds of Thinking Skills Assessment from March 23 to June 2, 2025, across 19 exam locations. The 6 rounds of Thinking Skills Assessment in 2025 of Hanoi National University are as follows:
Batch 501: Exam dates March 15 - March 16, 2025
Batch 502: Exam dates March 29 - March 30, 2025
Batch 503: Exam dates April 12 - April 13, 2025
Batch 504: Exam dates April 19 - April 20, 2025
Batch 505: Exam dates May 10 - May 11, 2025
Batch 506: Exam dates May 17 - May 18, 2025
[2] Thinking Skills Assessment of Ho Chi Minh City National University
Ho Chi Minh City National University plans to organize the Thinking Skills Assessment in two sessions, on March 30 and June 1.
The Thinking Skills Assessment of Ho Chi Minh City National University in 2025 includes 120 multiple-choice questions with a time allocation of 150 minutes, conducted on paper.
[3] SPT Exam of Hanoi University of Education
On November 22, 2024, Hanoi University of Education announced the plan for the SPT Exam - an independent competency assessment exam for 2025.
The competency assessment examination period for Hanoi University of Education in 2025 is from May 17 - May 18, 2025. The results of the SPT exam are only valid for regular university admission in the 2025 enrollment year.
Below is the 2025 competency assessment schedule for Hanoi University of Education:
[4] Exam of Ho Chi Minh City University of Education
Starting in 2025, the specialized competency assessment exam will continue with tests in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Literature, and English with an expanded scale not only serving the admission work of the School but also for other universities like:
- Hanoi University of Education
- University of Education - Danang University
- Industrial University
- Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine
- Nguyen Tat Thanh University
- Van Lang University
- Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy
- Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy
- Tay Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmacy, etc.
The content knowledge used to assess the competency of candidates mentioned in the tests will closely follow the General Education Program 2018, whereby the content knowledge in grade 12 comprises approximately 70-80%, with the remainder from grade 10 and 11 programs.
In 2025, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education plans to organize multiple competency assessment sessions in Ho Chi Minh City, Long An, Da Nang, Gia Lai.
[5] Evaluation Exam of the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam
In 2024, the evaluation exam for the Police block schools took place on July 7. The schedule for 2025 has not been announced.
[6] Thinking Skills Assessment of Hanoi University of Science and Technology of Vietnam
Hanoi University of Science and Technology plans to organize 3 rounds of thinking assessment in 2025. Detailed information on the exam rounds is as follows:
- Round 1: Exam dates January 18-19, 2025; registration opens December 1-6, 2024
- Round 2: Exam dates March 8-9, 2025; registration opens February 1-6, 2025
- Round 3: Exam dates April 26-27, 2025; registration opens April 1-6, 2025
The thinking assessment exam of Hanoi University of Science and Technology consists of 3 sections: Mathematical thinking, reading comprehension, and scientific/problem-solving thinking. These are 3 independent test sections.
Schedule for Thinking Skills Assessment for university admission in 2025 in Vietnam (Image from the Internet)
What are the goals of higher education in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 5 of the Law on Higher Education 2012 (amended by Article 77 of the Law on Vocational Education 2014) on the objectives of higher education:
Article 5. Objectives of Higher Education
- General objectives:
a) Train human resources, enhance people's intellectual standards, nurture talents; conduct scientific and technological research to create knowledge and new products, meeting economic-social development needs, ensuring national defense, security, and international integration;
b) Educate learners with political qualities, ethics; with knowledge, practical professional skills, research capacity and development of scientific and technological applications commensurate with the education levels; with health; with creativity and professional responsibility capabilities, adaptability to working environments; with a sense of serving the people.
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Thus, higher education has the following objectives:
[1] General Goals
- Train human resources, enhance intellectual standards, nurture talents; conduct scientific and technological research to create knowledge and new products, meeting economic-social development needs, ensuring national defense, security, and international integration
- Educate learners with political qualities, ethics; with knowledge, practical professional skills, research capacity and development of scientific and technological applications commensurate with the education levels; with health; with creativity and professional responsibility capabilities, adaptability to working environments; with a sense of serving the people.
[2] Specific Objectives for Undergraduate, Master's, Doctoral Training
- Training at the undergraduate level to equip students with comprehensive professional knowledge, thorough understanding of principles, natural-social laws, basic practical skills, independent working capability, creativity, and problem-solving in trained fields
- Master's level training to provide learners with foundational scientific knowledge, in-depth skills for research in a scientific field or effective professional activities, capability for independent work, creativity, and the ability to identify and resolve issues in the specialized training field
- Doctoral level training to offer research students high-level knowledge of theory and application, independent research capability, creativity, development of new knowledge, identification of principles, natural-social laws, and solving new issues in science and technology, and guiding scientific research and professional activities.
What are the responsibilities of candidates when registering options at universities in Vietnam?
According to Clause 1, Article 23 of the University Admission Regulation, college admission in preschool education issued together with Circular 08/2022/TT-BGDDT on the responsibilities of candidates when registering options for university admission in Vietnam:
- Carefully learn admission information of training institutions, do not register for options to those sectors, training programs, or admission methods that do not meet their qualifications;
- Provide complete and ensure the accuracy of all registration information for admission, including personal information, locality information, priority subjects (if any), registered options; the authenticity of supporting documents;
- Agree to allow the training institution one is applying to use necessary information and data for admission purposes;
- Complete payment of admission fees before concluding the registration procedure.
