VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of state owned high schools have to set the minimum required marks lower than last year’s levels in order to attract more 10th graders.

Dang Tran Con High School in Hue City still cannot enroll enough students, though it accepts the students who got only 1.25/30 marks for the three subjects.

Le Vinh, Headmaster of Dang Tran Con High School, has confirmed this, saying that since the number of students registering to study at the school is modest, he would accept all the students who are willing to study there.

“I love students. I think I need to accept all the students who are willing to study at the school to encourage them,” he said.

However, Vinh said the school has refused a student who got 10 marks from the high school entrance exams, simply because the student wanted to study at another school, and he only registered to study at Dang Tran Con as his second choice after he failed the exam to the other school.

Vinh emphasized that he would only enroll the students who take the exams to the school. Most of them know have weak learning capability and they registered to study at less prestigious schools.

When asked why Dang Tran Con High School can enroll the students with such weak learning capability, Pham Van Hung, Director of the Hue City Education and Training Department, said that all the willing students would be enrolled until schools can find enough students.

In principle, all the students finishing secondary schools have the right to study at high schools. The marks students got from the entrance exams would only help decide who would go to what schools. The better students would go to more prestigious schools, and vice versa.

Explaining the lower number of students attending the entrance exams to high schools this year, Hung said the students were born in the Year of Tiger. A lot of parents decided not to have children in the year because they thought their children would not have good luck.

In previous years, about 6,000 students attended the high school entrance exams, while the schools in the city planned to enroll 4,000. This year the schools also plan to enroll 4,000, but only 4,200 students applied.

In Thua Thien – Hue province, Hai Ba Trung and Nguyen Hue are the two schools which set the highest required marks, 23 and 20.5 marks, respectively. Meanwhile, the others all set up low required marks.

Students just need to get 13.5 marks to be eligible for studying at Nguyen Truong To High School. Other schools required 7-10 marks only.

In Quang Ngai province, students just need to have 4.3 marks from the exams to be able to enter the Nghia Hanh High School No 2, if they have the certificates on vocational training at good level.

The school, though having lowered the required marks, still cannot find enough 250 students for 10th grades.

Especially, the best state owned high schools in Hanoi this year also have the required marks lower than the previous years.

Chu Van An High School remains the most wanted high school for students. However, the school this year requires only 53.5/60 marks on the students entering the 10th grades instead of 56 marks in the year before. Phan Dinh Phung High School accepts the students with 49.5 marks instead of 54.

Compiled by K. Chi