More than a million high-school students are sitting the
graduation exam that began yesterday, June 2, according to figures from the Ministry of
Education and Training.

Students at the Viet Nam-Poland Highschool in Ha Noi attend graduation exam. More than a million high-school students are sitting the exam that began yesterday, June 2. (Photo: VNS)

It began
at 2,432 centres across the country with papers in literature and physics.

During
the three-day exam, they will also take tests in mathematics, foreign language,
biology, and geography.

The
foreign language choices are English, Russian, French, German, Japanese, and
Chinese.

In HCM
City, more than 2,600 high-school teachers are doing duty as invigilators at 111
centres where 69,721 students are sitting the exam.

With
2,300, Lai Chau is among the provinces with the fewest number of candidates.

Among
them are 33 students who are the first ever to sit the exam from Ca Lang, one of
the poorest communes in this northern province’s Muong Te District.

Nguyen
Thai Giang, a senior Lai Chau education official, said residents of Ca Lang are
proud of this.

All 33
students went to the district high school for a month to revise for the exam.

In Da
Nang, 12,990 candidates are sitting the exam. Interestingly, 37 students have
been exempted from taking it. Of them, 32 are exceptional students who took part
in international talent competitions and the other five are children with visual
impairment from Nguyen Thuong Hien High School.

Authorities in Kon Plong and Tu Mo Rong Districts in the Central Highlands
province of Kon Tum have provided an allowance of VND80,000 to VND300,000 to
each candidate and provided transport to exam centres. Kon Tum has 3,816 people
sitting the exam.

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Nam News