The
Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has just announced changes to the
2012 national university entrance exams it is holding in July to enrol students
for higher education.
A new set of standardized tests on math,
physics, and English will be added to the exams, besides the three traditional
ones, which are called Group A (math, physics, chemistry), Group B (math,
chemistry, biology), Group C (literature, history, geography), and Group D
(math, literature, either of English, German, French, Japanese, Russian, and
Chinese), MoET says.
To gain admission to university, Vietnamese
high school graduates are required to pass one particular set of tests,
depending on their majors.
An annually published guide to the exams will
not be released in the ministry’s name anymore this year, the central education
body says.
In previous years, the ministry collected
enrollment information provided by junior colleges and universities nationwide
and published the manual under its own name.
Candidates who fail to get into their
first-choice university will be allowed to submit their scores to as many other
schools as they want for admission in the upcoming exam season, according to
the ministry.
MoET earlier permitted candidates to seek
admission at only two other schools if they cannot make it to their
top-priority university.
The education ministry will continue letting
some specialized universities offer vocational courses after banning higher
education institutions from running such courses due to complaints from
vocational schools, it says.
It adds those high school students who win
prizes in national academic contests will be granted automatic admission to
university as before.
The ministry already stopped awarding
automatic admission to national contest winners back in 2007.
Unlike many other countries which recruit
university students based on their high school performance, Vietnam has used
standardized tests prepared my MoET in national entrance exams to admit
students to junior colleges and universities since 2002.
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