At the conference on implementing the work of enrolling students at the primary level, organizing the high school graduation exam and evaluating the implementation of Circular 29/2024, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Ha, Deputy Director of the Department of Quality Management (Ministry of Education and Training) said that many localities are concerned and worried about the process of arranging exam rooms. Accordingly, the 2025 high school graduation exam will only be held in 3 exam sessions and the third session will test both elective subjects. To facilitate the organization and convenience, candidates will be arranged in a single exam room during the exam sessions, without having to move.

The Ministry of Education and Training requires that exams be collected by exam room, not by subject. "We have conducted experiments and simulated up to 5 different exam subjects in 1 exam room at two time slots, showing that it can still be handled," said Mr. Ha.

The Deputy Director also added that to ensure security, instead of only having 24 exam codes for 24 students in one exam room as before, this year's exam increased the number of exam codes to 48 for the 2 time frames of the 3rd exam session.

With these technical changes, the representative of the Ministry of Education and Training said that the printing and copying of exam papers must be different from before, and be specified according to the number of subjects in each exam room.

According to the Ministry of Education and Training, many localities have organized mock exams, which have basically gone smoothly, but the organization model is different from the real exam, such as taking more than 3 sessions. Therefore, the Ministry of Education and Training requires localities to organize mock exams to be as similar as possible to the real exam model.

The special thing about this year's exam is that it will be held simultaneously for candidates who take the old program, have not graduated yet, or take the exam to serve university admissions.

Due to the different time and number of exam sessions for the two candidates in the two programs, to avoid even the smallest errors, the Ministry of Education and Training requires organizing different exam sites for candidates in the two different programs. At the same exam site, the exam questions of the two programs will not be tested.

Another issue is that this year, the exam will be held simultaneously for students taking the 2006 General Education Program (those who have not graduated, or who are taking the exam to get university entrance scores) and students taking the new General Education Program. To avoid mistakes, it is necessary to arrange some separate exam sites for students taking the 2006 Program.

Regarding the exam, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Ha said that the exam content closely follows the content of the new general education program, mainly the 12th grade program. The thinking level is 40% knowledge level, 30% understanding level and 30% application level. Strengthening the connection and application of knowledge and skills with reality, especially with differentiated content to accurately assess students' abilities.

With these new points, teachers need to strengthen guidance for students to read and study on their own. Self-control and self-study are also among the three important general competencies mentioned in the new program.

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Ha also emphasized that this year's graduation score calculation is only 50% based on the high school graduation exam score, the remaining 50% is calculated from the 3-year high school study process. This change is consistent with the new program with a focus on developing the learner's capacity and qualities, and many of the students' capacities and qualities are developed during the learning process.

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