Unlike many countries which select students for higher education mainly based on the applicants’ high school academic performance, Vietnam recruits students via papers on a set of three subjects chosen from math, physics, chemistry, literature, history, geography, biology, and foreign languages, depending on each specific major.

With the all-the-time high graduation rates among high school students, the Vietnamese Vice President suggested scrapping the national high school graduation exam as it is unnecessary, she said, to continue giving such easy tests.

Local educators have long called for the abolition of the exam, presenting similar arguments, and insisted that very few countries ask their students to take such tests now, reported Tuoi tre News.