Cases that the Exam Board is not required to establish in the recruitment exam for officials and public employees in Vietnam

According to the Regulation issued together with the Circular No. 6/2020/TT-BNV of the Ministry of Home Affairs of Vietnam, in case the competent agency or unit organizing recruitment of officials, public employees, officials rank promotion exam or professional title promotion of public employees shall consider and decide on contracts with agencies, organizations and units that satisfy all conditions to develop exam questions, test marking instructions, and test marking answers, it must be done in writing in accordance with the provisions of current law; the contracting parties are jointly responsible before the law for the confidentiality and quality of the exam questions as prescribed. In this case, the Chairman of the Council is not required to set up an Exam Board, but is responsible for requesting the contracting agency, organization or unit to develop exam questions, test marking instructions, and test marking answers which ensure the confidentiality of exam questions in accordance with the law.

In case a competent agency or unit organizes the examination for promotion of officials rank or professional title promotion of public employees using the question and answer bank of general knowledge subjects provided by the Ministry of Home Affairs of Vietnam, it must still establish the Exam Board allows the head of the exam board to organize the random drawing of questions to form multiple-choice test questions with many different versions of the test questions, and submit them to the Chairman of the Board for consideration and decision on the official exam questions and the backup exam questions.

View more details at the Circular No. 6/2020/TT-BNV of the Ministry of Home Affairs of Vietnam, effective from January 20, 2021.

Thuy Tram

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