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Vietnam: Notes candidates need to remember after knowing the 2018 National High School Exam scores

Kim Linh

14:30, 12/07/2018

On July 11, 2018, the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam officially announced the 2018 national high school exam scores for more than 910,000 candidates nationwide. And when they know the exam results, candidates need to pay attention to a few of the following issues.

1. Important milestones after the 2018 National High School Exam

According to regulations of the Official Dispatch No. 991/BGDĐT-QLCL and Official Dispatch No. 899/BGDĐT-GDĐH, currently, there are 15 milestones that candidates should pay attention to.

NO.	Content	Milestone
1	Receive temporary graduation certificate, transcripts and other types of certificates (original) at high schools	No later than July 20
2	Submit a regrading application	From July 11 to July 20
3	Consider graduation recognition after the regrading	No later than July 30
4	Announce the admission list for direct admission candidates	Before 5:00 p.m. of July 18
5	Candidates who are admitted directly submit documents and confirm admission	Before July 23
6	The Ministry of Education and Training announce the floor score for the pedagogical sector	Before July 18
7	Universities announce scores for admission applications	Before July 19
8	Candidates adjust their admission wishes online	From July 19 to 5:00 p.m. of July 26
9	Candidates adjust their admission wishes using the Admission Registration Form	From July 19 to 5:00 p.m. of July 28
10	Candidates check the results of their wish adjustment; adjust mistakes (if any) (only applies to the form of adjusting the Admission Registration Form)	Before 5:00 p.m. of July 30
11	Universities begin admission for round 1	From August 3 to 5:00 p.m. of August 5
12	Announce the results of round 1 admission	Before 5:00 p.m. of August 6
13	Candidates confirm admission for round 1	Before 5:00 p.m. of August 12 (based on postmark)
14	Universities consider additional admission	From August 22
15	Universities announce additional admission results	Until December 2018

2. Recognition of high school graduation

According to Clause 4 Article 1 of Circular No. 04/2018/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam on amendments to Circular No. 04/2017/TT-BGDĐT, candidates who meet the requirement of taking the exam, have no discipline record at the level of score disposal, have no subject within the chosen 4 tests scored with 1 point in scale 1-10 and have the grade-point average for graduation recognition from 5 and above are qualified to be recognized.

3. Regrading procedures

According to Article 30 of Circular No. 04/2017/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, candidates can request for regrading by sending the regrading application to the registered examination venue.

The high school at which a candidate registered shall receive that candidate’s regrading application within 10 days from the day of scores announcement. After receiving the regrading request, the application of the requesting candidate shall be transferred to the examination center.

Within 15 days from the deadline of submitting the regrading application, the examination center shall post and send the regraded result to the candidate.

4. Retained scores

According to Article 35 of Circular No. 04/2017/TT-BGDĐT, candidates who took all required tests in the last year exam but have not been qualified to graduate and have no record of score disposal can reuse any score that was graded from 5.0 and above for the relevant subject in the following year exam to be qualified for graduation recognition.

Those who choose not to use the retained score shall take all tests and his/her results will be used for the graduation recognition in the same way for candidates without retained scores.

The use of the retained scores in the university enrolment shall be decided by headmasters of universities, colleges.

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