English scores lowest among Vietnam’s high school graduation examination subjects

This year, over a million students participated in Vietnam’s high school graduation examinations on June 28 and June 29, taking tests in nine subjects Math, Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Geography, Civics Education and Foreign Language.

A total of 876,102 examinees took the English test, with a median score of 5.2 and a mode score of 4.2, also the lowest among the all subjects, according to results announced by the Ministry of Education and Training on Tuesday.

The three subjects with the highest average scores were Civics Education (8.29), Literature (6.86) and Chemistry (6.74).

Among those who were tested for English, over 392,000 examinees, or 44.8% of the examinees, scored below 5. A total of 494 examinees had a perfect score of 10.

Last year, the average English score for over 978,000 examinees was 5.15, higher than 5.02 in Biology, although Biology’s mode score last year was 4.5 and English’s 3.8.

The annual high school graduation exam is the largest in Vietnam and is considered the most important. Its results will decide if a student can get into their desired university.