Vietnam: Do not reserve results for the officials promotion exam

Specifically, according to Article 38 of the Decree No. 138/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, determining the successful candidate in the officials promotion exam is as follows:

- There are 50% or more correct answers for each test subject specified in Clauses 1, 2 and 3 Article 37 of this Decree, except for cases of exemption from examination.

- Having a score of 50 points or more in a professional test specified in Clause 4 Article 37 of this Decree, in case of taking the exam to raise the rank to senior specialist or equivalent, the score must be at least 100 points (in which the score of the thesis writing test and the thesis defense exam must be at least 50 points in each test) and scores are taken in order from high to low within the assigned quota.

Note: In case there are 02 or more people with the same total score in the final exam, the order of priority for admission is as follows: Officials are female; officials who are ethnic minorities; older officials (calculated by day, month, year of birth); officials have more working time. If still undetermined, the head of the agency competent to organize the officials rank promotion exam shall have a written discussion with the head of the officials management agency and decide on the successful candidate at the proposal of the head of the officials management agency.

- Do not reserve the results for the next promotion exams.

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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