HANOI– Over 993,000 Vietnamese high school students, yesterday started sitting for the national final exam, with strict COVID-19 control measures.
The annual exam takes place as Vietnam is still fighting its biggest wave of COVID-19 infection, which started in late Apr, and has spread to more than 50 cities and provinces nationwide.
While the majority of students took the exam yesterday and today, nearly 11,600 students, who tested positive for COVID-19, or lived in areas with high risks of the pandemic, will sit for the exam later, the Ministry of Education and Training reported.
Localities have been allowed to postpone the exam, if necessary, to ensure safety and fairness for students, according to the report. In several localities, such as, the southern pandemic hotspot, Ho Chi Minh City, large-scale nucleic acid tests were conducted, for all students and personnel serving the exam.
Similar to last year, candidates are requested to have their body temperature checked, and have their hands disinfected before entering the test halls, as well as, to wear medical masks, during the exam.
More than one million students registered for the national exam this year, said the ministry, compared to a little over 900,000 last year.
The exam includes four parts, namely, literature, maths, foreign language, and either a group of three natural science subjects (physics, chemistry and biology) or a group of three social science subjects (history, geography and civics).
Vietnam has integrated its high school graduation exam and university entrance exam into one national exam since 2015, mainly to save time and costs.
Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK