Universities and Colleges Selection Examination


Universities and Colleges Selection Examination was a type of standardized test that is no longer used by public and some private universities and junior college in Vietnam. Established in 2002, it was known roughly as the exam of 3 chung. The test by the Ministry of Education and Training held annually, one year later than Vietnamese High School Graduation Examination. In the years of being organized, it was held in the first and middle of July according to the following schedule:
Since 2015, the exam have been abolished, to be replaced by a unified test, which is the National High School Examination'. The THPTQG was stopped after 2019, then High School Graduation Examination was held again, with the results able to be used by universities for admission or consider admission based on the results of new self-organized admission tests, such as Aptitude Test, or Thinking Skills Assessment.

Contestant

Who has a high school graduation certificates or equivalent level study.

Exam blocks and subjects

Basic blocks:
Gifted blocks:
Each subject is graded on a 10-mark scale.

Form

Prior to 2001, each institution conducted its own entrance exams under the supervision of the Ministry of Education. Accordingly, candidates who registered for the exams at many schools must go through each school's exams. Since 2001, the Ministry of Education has begun to conduct a single exam, and the results would be applied to all schools that candidates have registered.
Since 2007, the form of objective test applied to the four subjects: physics, chemistry, biology and foreign languages; four subjects: mathematics, literature, history and geography are in essay format.