During the 10th grade entrance exam (June 6 and 7), readers can visit thanhnien.vn or the Education section of Thanh Nien Newspaper to refer to comments from experienced teachers on the exam questions of each subject.

According to statistics from the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, there are about 96,000 candidates registered and will take the exam with the subjects of literature, foreign language, math (if registering for regular grade 10) and specialized and integrated subjects (if registering for specialized schools and classes; integrated).

Some points students need to note when taking the exam

Mr. Vo Thien Cang, Head of Testing and Quality Assurance Department, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, said that he has some notes for candidates:

• For each exam session, candidates must be present at the 10th grade entrance exam room at the specified time, follow the instructions of the exam board and the instructions of the exam supervisor. Candidates who are present at the exam site gate more than 15 minutes late after the exam time signal are given will not be allowed to take the exam.
• Candidates who arrive late at the exam site gate within the allowed time will be responsible for determining whether they are eligible to take the exam. If permission is granted, the invigilator will take the candidate to the exam room and allow the candidate to take the exam within the remaining time. All latecomers who are allowed to take the exam will still submit their papers within the prescribed time, no additional time will be added.

In the examination room, candidates must comply with the following regulations:

• Candidates are only allowed to bring into the exam room pens, pencils, compasses, erasers, rulers, calculators without word processing function, and no memory cards.

• Show your exam card to the invigilator and sit in the correct seat with your registration number. Before taking the exam, you must write your registration number and information on the exam paper, exam paper, and scratch paper.
• When receiving the exam paper, you must carefully check the number of pages and the quality of the printed pages. If you find that the paper is missing pages or is torn, damaged, smudged, or faded, you must immediately report it to the invigilator in the examination room, no later than 5 minutes from the time the exam paper is distributed.
• Do not exchange, copy other people's papers, use unauthorized documents to do the test or have any gestures or actions that cheat or disrupt the order of the test room. If you want to give your opinion, you must raise your hand to report to the invigilator. After being allowed, the candidate stands up to publicly present his/her opinion to the invigilator.
• No markings or personal symbols are allowed, no pencil writing is allowed, only one color of ink is allowed (no red ink). When the time is up, you must stop working immediately.
• Keep your exam paper intact and do not let others take advantage of it; immediately report to the exam supervisor to handle cases where your exam paper is taken advantage of or intentionally interfered with by others.

In addition, candidates may only leave the examination room and examination area after 2/3 of the examination time has passed; they must submit their examination papers, test questions, and scratch paper before leaving the examination room.

In case of necessity, candidates may only leave the examination room with permission from the invigilator and must be supervised by the invigilator. Candidates leaving the examination room or examination area in case of emergency must be supervised by the police until the end of the examination session and will be decided by the head of the examination site.