On the evening of July 2, speaking with Tuoi Tre Online about the announcement of the benchmark scores for grade 10 in 2024, Mr. Nguyen Van Hieu, director of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, said: "The Department will announce the benchmark scores for grade 10 in 2024 at 2:00 p.m. on July 3."

Thus, this year, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training announced the benchmark scores for grade 10 admission one week earlier than expected.

According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, the staff of the Department of Examination and Education Quality Assessment have been working at full speed, regardless of the time, to be able to announce the benchmark scores as soon as possible.

Answering many parents' questions about why the benchmark scores were not announced immediately after the 10th grade entrance exam scores were released, a department leader informed:

"After announcing the admission scores for specialized and integrated 10th grade, the department must wait for schools to complete receiving admission applications for these classes. When the admission scores for specialized and integrated 10th grade are finished, the department will continue to consider the admission scores for regular 10th grade.

That is, in reality, there are some students who passed the specialized and integrated 10th grade but did not submit their admission application. Therefore, we will continue to consider the 3 wishes to enter the regular 10th grade for these students."

According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, 98,681 candidates registered for this year's 10th grade entrance exam in Ho Chi Minh City. The candidates completed the exam on June 6 and 7 and learned their exam scores on June 19.

According to statistics on the 10th grade entrance exam scores in 2024 in Ho Chi Minh City, foreign language is the subject with the best score among the three exam subjects, with 1,707 candidates scoring 10 points, and 14,732 candidates scoring from 9 to 9.75 points.

In the most controversial subject of the recent exam, math had 49 candidates get a score of 10. Although literature did not have a score of 10, the number of exams with below average scores was the lowest among the three subjects.

Admission scores for grade 10 are calculated as follows:

Admission score = Literature exam score + Foreign language exam score + Math exam score + priority and incentive points (if any).

The Department only considers candidates who are eligible to take the entrance exam, have taken all required exams, have not violated the entrance exam regulations, and have not scored a zero on any exam.