Latest information on the 2025 10th grade entrance exam in Ho Chi Minh City.

According to the roadmap for implementing the 2018 General Education Program, 9th-grade students in the 2024-2025 school year will be the first candidates to participate in the 2025 10th-grade entrance exam under the new program's orientation.

Regular 10th grade entrance exam: Stable with 3 subjects: Literature, Mathematics, and Foreign Language.

The high school entrance exam is always a matter of great concern for parents and students. Therefore, before the start of the new school year, Dr. Nguyen Van Hieu, Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, stated that the 2025 10th grade entrance exam will remain stable with three subjects: literature, mathematics, and foreign language.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training will announce sample exam questions for each subject in the 10th grade entrance exam at the beginning of the school year, expected in October 2024. However, the level of differentiation and innovation of the exam questions in each subject will be calculated and adjusted by the department to suit teaching and learning in the direction of assessing students' abilities – closely following the goals of the 2018 General Education Program at the lower secondary level.

The head of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training stated that in August, the Department will issue guidelines for the 2025-2026 high school entrance exam. In September, the exam format and content will be announced, and it is expected that sample exam questions for each subject will be released around October. This will provide guidance for teachers and schools in innovating teaching and assessment methods to better align with student competency-based evaluation.

Mr. Nguyen Van Hieu emphasized that the approach of conducting entrance exams for 10th grade based on student competency assessment is not new to Ho Chi Minh City, as the city has consistently pursued this goal for the past 10 years, from 2014 to the present.

In the 2025-2026 10th grade entrance exam, the Department of Education and Training will continue to steadfastly implement exam reform aimed at assessing students' competencies. However, Ho Chi Minh City will more clearly demonstrate this competency-based approach in its exam questions, in line with the 2018 General Education Program.

Admission to specialized 10th grade classes: Changes to exam subjects.

Regarding the 2025 entrance exam for specialized 10th-grade classes, the Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training stated that the Department's orientation is to replace the specialized subjects of physics, chemistry, biology, history, and geography with specialized subjects in natural sciences , history, and geography, in accordance with the 2018 General Education Program at the lower secondary level. However, at the upper secondary level, there will be appropriate guidance to ensure that students in these specialized classes choose the correct specialized subjects in physics, chemistry, biology, history, and geography according to the 2018 General Education Program at the upper secondary level, linked to career orientation.