Vietnam: Notes for candidates taking the national high school graduation examination

The Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam issued Circular No. 04/2017/TT-BGDĐT on the regulation on national high school graduation examination and high school graduation consideration.

Complying with the national high school exam regulations is very important for candidates taking the exam and can affect their exam results. According to Circular No. 04/2017/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, candidates must comply with the following regulations:

1. Every candidate shall be present at the examination room on time as specified in the Examination notice to complete the exams procedures, and:

- Present the ID card either conventional or new format and receive the candidate card;

- If the first name, middle name, last name, date of birth or eligibility for privileges is found incorrect, the candidate must promptly inform the officers of the examination center for correction.

- In case the ID card or another necessary document is lost, the candidate must immediately inform the leader of the examination venue for consideration, handling.

2. In each examination session, candidates shall present at the examination room on time, follow the instructions of invigilation board and invigilators. Candidates arriving later than 15 minutes after the commencement of a test will not be allowed to take the test.

3. When entering the examination room, candidates must follow these rules:

- Present the candidate card to the invigilators;

- Only bring the following items to the examination room: pen, pencil, drawing compass, eraser, ruler, scientific calculator without text composing function and memory stick; Geographic atlas of Vietnam for Geography test, 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;

- Do not bring weapons, explosives, inflammable materials, alcohol drinks, carbon papers, correction pen, handouts, information transmission or storage devices that can be used for cheating in the process of examination and grading.

4. When sitting in the examination room, candidates must follow these rules:

- Sit in the assigned position that matches the candidate number;

- Before doing the test, write the candidate number on questions sheet, the exam paper or the multiple-choice answer sheet, drafts;

- When receiving the question sheet, carefully check the number of pages and the printing quality. In case of missing, torn or blurry pages, inform the invigilators immediately within 10 minutes after receiving the question sheet;

- Do not talk with other candidates, peek at others’ papers, attempt to cheat and cause disturbances; Raise one hand to ask for permission before saying/asking;

- Do not write or draw any sign or symbol on the exam papers, do not use pencils except for drawing circles with compass and filling in circles on the multiple-choice answer sheets; the answers must be written in one ink color (red ink is prohibited);

- When the end of the test time is announced, candidates shall stop writing immediately;

- The papers of candidates shall be intact. If detect any signs of others’ violation on their paper, candidates shall inform the invigilators for handling;

- When handing in the written papers, candidates shall write the number of submitted pages and sign on the note of collecting papers. Candidates who fail to do the tests still have to hand in their answer papers (of the written tests), multiple-choice answer sheets;

- Candidates are not allowed to leave the examination room when taking the multiple-choice tests. When taking written exams, candidates are allowed to leave the examination room until two thirds of the examination time has elapsed and shall submit all their answers, questions and draft papers before leaving;

- If necessary, candidates shall only leave the examination room with invigilators’  permission and must be accompanied by a supervisor.

5. When taking the multiple-choice tests, in addition to the rules prescribed above, candidates must follow these rules below:

- Candidates must fill in their answers on the multiple-choice answer sheets printed in the format of  the Ministry of Education and Training. Candidates shall only fill in the circles of candidate number, questions code and answers with black shade pencils. In case of changing answers, candidates shall clean all the pencil shade of the old circle and fill in the new one.

- 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.

- When receiving question papers, candidates shall notice that the codes of the component tests in the natural sciences or social sciences combined test are the same as each other; in case of receiving different codes, candidates shall promptly inform the invigilators within no more than 10 minutes after receiving question papers. Candidates shall put the question papers under the multiple-choice answer sheet and only read the question papers after the invigilator has given permission to do so.

- Candidates must check the papers to make sure that their papers have enough questions as stated in the beginning of papers and all pages of the papers have the same question code.

- Candidates shall not submit their papers before the end of the session. At the end of the session, candidates shall hand in the multiple-choice answer sheet to the invigilators and sign in two notes of the collecting papers.

- After the invigilators check the number of received multiple-choice answer sheets and permit to leave, candidates are allowed to leave the examination room.

6. In case of unexpected situations, candidates shall follow the instruction of invigilators.

View grading procedures at Circular No. 04/2017/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, effective from March 10, 2017.

- Thanh Lam -

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