Police in Vietnam's Tuyen Quang Province have placed a high school teacher under emergency detention as authorities investigate alleged irregularities in the 2026 national high school graduation examination.

Authorities in Vietnam are reviewing every stage of the 2026 national high school graduation examination in Tuyen Quang after data revealed an exceptional concentration of perfect mathematics scores within a single group of candidates.

Vietnam's 2026 high school graduation exam produced 11 national toppers and 47 runners-up across the country's five traditional university admission subject combinations.

The first exam of Vietnam's largest-ever graduation examination has earned positive reviews from both students and educators for its modern and thought-provoking themes.

Some universities have released data on the academic performance of students admitted via high school transcript evaluation, saying that high admission standards and limited quotas for this enrolment method have yielded satisfactory results.

A friend of mine who has been in Australia for nearly 10 years and is now an international student spent 50 minutes on the English high school graduation exam and was shocked by its "tricky" nature.

For Tran Xuan Dam, success is not a destination but a journey, a guiding principle that has fueled his motivation and led him to excel as one of the top scorers on the 2025 national high school graduation exam.