According to statistics from the Ministry of Education and Training on the 2024 high school graduation exam scores, there are 1,050,132 candidates nationwide taking the literature exam. The average score this year is up to 7.23 points, higher than in 2023 (6.86 points). The median score for this subject is 7.5.

The highest score a candidate achieved in literature was 8 points with 85,990 candidates; in 2023, the highest score a candidate achieved was 7 points.

The number of candidates with below average scores (below 5 points) was 53,207, down more than 20,000 compared to last year (73,622).

The number of candidates with a failing score in this subject (from 1 point or less) is 68, accounting for 0.006%, last year there were 92 candidates (0.009%) with a failing score. Of these, 29 candidates had a score of 0 on the exam (in 2023 it was 24).

Notably, the whole country has 2 literature exams with a score of 10 (1 exam in 2023).

1,843 exams scored 9.75 points; 14,198 exams scored 9.5 points; 26,758 exams scored 9.25 points and 49,254 exams scored 9 points...

Meanwhile, the whole country has no candidates scoring 10 points in math (in 2023 it was 12), the number of zero points in math this year is also higher with 14 candidates (in 2023 it was 2).

However, the average and median scores this year both increased compared to last year, at 6.45 and 6.8 respectively.

The number of failed exams also decreased compared to last year by 76 (in 2023 it was 123)...

Previously, when first approaching the math exam in this year's exam, many teachers said that the graduation math exam had some strange and "extremely difficult" questions, so it would be very rare to get a perfect score.

The literature exam was considered familiar and "hit the mark" when the literature section's language coincided with the work that many people had previously speculated about on social networks.

Associate Professor Nguyen Duc Son, Principal of Hanoi National University of Education, said: "The work of creating exam questions this year has been done relatively evenly and has gradually been able to access new exam-making technologies. However, I still hope that the exam questions in the following exams will be more uniform, with no large difference between the scores of the subjects. This will create a common ground for easy assessment of the quality of teaching and learning."