Rules in the exam room for candidates taking Vietnam High School Graduation Exam to follow

Rules in the exam room for candidates taking Vietnam High School Graduation Exam to follow

Circular 15/2020/TT-BGDDT stipulates that candidates taking the high school graduation exam must fully comply with the following rules in the exam room:

- Present the Candidate Card to invigilators;

- Sit on the seat allotted to his/her candidate number;

- Before doing the exam, write the candidate number and details in the question paper, the script or the multiple-choice answer sheet, scrap paper;

- After receiving the question paper, carefully check the number of pages thereof and the printing quality. Any missing, torn or blurry pages should be immediately reported to the invigilators in the exam room within 5 minutes from the distribution time of question paper;

- Refrain from communicating with or copying from exam-mates, using authorized materials or attempting to cheat or making noise in the exam room; raise one hand to ask for permission before saying/asking. Stand up and openly present their opinions when allowed to speak;

- Refrain from writing or drawing any secret mark, refrain from using pencil except for filling in circle in the multiple-choice answer sheet; write one single ink color in the script (red ink is prohibited);

- Stop writing immediately when the end of the exam session is announced;

- Protect the script and prevent other exam-mates from misusing the answer sheet; immediately report an invigilator in a case where any person misuses or intentionally interfere in the answer sheet;

- Write the number of submitted pages and sign on the acknowledgement of submission when handing in the written paper scripts. Candidates who fail to do the papers still have to hand in their answer sheets (for written exam) or multiple-choice answer sheets (for multiple-choice exam);

- Refrain from leaving the exam room throughout the allotted time given to a multiple-choice exam; may leave the exam room and area after two thirds of the allotted time given to a written exam, and submit the script/sheet together with question paper, scrap paper before leaving;

- May leave the exam room, in exceptional circumstances, with permission of invigilators and accompanied by a supervisor; in case of medical emergency, the leave of candidates must be accompanied by the police until the end of the exam session and subject to decision of the manager of the Exam Place;

- Only bring the following items into the exam room: pens, pencils, compasses, erasers, rulers, slide rules; calculator without text composing function and memory cards (as specified in the annual guidelines for administration of high school graduation exam issued by the MOET); geographic atlas of Vietnam for Geography paper (with no mark or interlineations), published by Vietnam Education Publishing House), recording and transmitting devices that have the function of information recording only and only receive and transmit audio, visual signals with the support of other devices;

- Refrain from bring the following items into the exam room: carbon paper, correction pens, alcoholic drinks; weapons, explosives, inflammable materials; handouts, information transmission or storage devices that can be used for cheating in the process of examination and marking

When taking a multiple-choice paper, candidates must follow these rules below:

- Must fill in their answers on the multiple-choice answer sheets printed in the format of the MOET; only fill in the circles of candidate number, question paper code and answers with stray pencils; erase completely without leaving any stray pencil mark in the old circle and fill in the expected one, in case of changing answers;

- Fill in correctly all required fields printed on the multiple-choice answer sheet; for the candidate number field, all digits must be written and filled in (even “0” digits at the beginning); write the question paper code correctly on the two copies of acknowledgement of submission;

- Check if the codes of the component papers in the natural science or social science paper are the same as each other after receiving a question paper; and promptly inform the invigilators within no more than 5 minutes after receiving such a question paper in case of different codes; put the question paper under the multiple-choice answer sheet and only read the question paper after the invigilator has given such a permission;

- Check if the question paper have enough questions and pages as stated in the beginning of the paper and all pages of the paper have the same question code;

- Refrain from submitting the script before the end of the exam session; hand in the multiple-choice answer sheet to the invigilators and sign in two copies of acknowledgement of submission at the end of the session;

- Only leave the exam room after the invigilators confirm that they receive adequate number of multiple-choice answer sheets in the exam room and permit the leave.

For details, see Circular 15/2020/TT-BGDDT effective from May 26, 2020.

Thu Ba

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