Details of the form and content of the officials promotion exam from December 01, 2020 in Vietnam

Specifically, according to Article 37 of the Decree No. 138/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, the officials promotion exam is conducted as follows:

1. General knowledge:

- Form: Multiple choice exam;

- Content: 60 questions about the political system, organizational apparatus of the Party, State, socio-political organizations; Government administrative management; officials and public servants; the responsibilities and duties of officials according to the requirements of the examination ranks;

- Duration: 60 minutes.

2. Foreign language subjects

- Form: Multiple choice exam;

- Content: 30 questions about one of five languages: English, Russian, French, German, and Chinese at the request of the competition grade, decided by the head of the agency competent to organize the grade-raising exam;

- Duration: 30 minutes.

3. Informatics:

- Form: Multiple choice exam;

- Content: 30 questions according to the requirements of the exam category;

- Duration: 30 minutes.

4. Professional subject and professions:

- For promotion to the rank of senior specialist or equivalent: Written exam on project, maximum time 08 hours and the exam defending the project, the maximum time 30 minutes; exam content according to the requirements of the exam category. The project writing exam and the project defense exam are scored with a scale of 100 for each test;

- For promotion to the rank of main expert or equivalent: Written exam, duration 180 minutes; exam content according to the requirements of the competition category; 100 point scale;

- For raising the rank to the rank of officials or equivalent; specialist rank or equivalent: Written exam, duration 120 minutes; exam content according to the requirements of the competition category; 100 point scale.

In case the agency competent to organize the officials promotion exam decides to take a multiple-choice test on a computer, it is not required to take the computer science test and must notify the exam score to the exam official immediately after the end of the time to take the test on the computer. Do not review computerized multiple-choice test results.

Note: Exemption from foreign language exam for the following cases:

- Officials by the month of full retirement age have less than 5 years of working;

- Officials with certificates of ethnic minority languages or ethnic minorities who are working in ethnic minority areas;

- Officials possessing diplomas in foreign languages with the same training level or at a higher training level than the professional training level specified in the standards of the exam category;

- Officials having diplomas according to the required training level or at a higher level of training than the professional training level specified in the standards of the exam grade issued by the foreign educational institution and recognized in Vietnam according to regulations.

In addition, the informatics exam is exempted for those who have an intermediate or higher diploma in a discipline related to informatics and information technology.

View more details at the Decree No. 138/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from December 01, 2020.

Le Vy

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