The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has recently issued Circular No. 02/2024/TT-BGDDT dated March 6, 2024, amending and supplementing several articles of the current High School Graduation Exam Regulations.
Accordingly, the 2024 High School Graduation Exam will remain fundamentally stable, consistent with the 2020–2023 period and specifically mirroring the 2023 exam. MOET has only implemented minor technical adjustments to the Regulations to ensure national uniformity in the organizational process.
Subject Registration: The regulations clearly define the exam subjects to facilitate the registration process. To ensure candidate priority rights and prevent errors during registration, units are responsible for verifying student information via the National Population Database. Candidates are also reminded of their responsibility to keep their account information and passwords confidential.
Prohibited Items: In addition to the list of permitted items, the new regulations explicitly supplement a list of prohibited items in the examination room. Specific rules have also been added for "independent candidates" who only take one or two component subjects within a combined exam paper.
Exam Security: Regarding professional protocols for paper setting, printing, and coding (making "phach"), new requirements have been added. This includes clarifying the duration of state secret protection for exam questions to ensure candidates and organizers comply with confidentiality laws.
Foreign Language Exemptions: The list of foreign language certificates eligible for exam exemption has been expanded to ensure fairness and to reflect currently recognized international certifications.
Technical Adjustments: Several other technical changes involve the exam committees (paper setting, invigilation, and marking). Some content previously found only in annual guidance documents has now been integrated directly into the formal Regulations to enhance consistency.