Six Key Milestones for the 2025 National High School Graduation Examination

On July 16th, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) will officially release the results of the 2025 National High School Graduation Examination. Immediately after receiving their scores, candidates can begin registering and modifying their university admission preferences. There is no limit on the number of times candidates can adjust their choices within the designated time frame.

Important University Admission Deadlines

After submitting their admission preferences, candidates are required to pay the application fee online in order for their registration to be considered complete.

On August 20th (tentative), universities will announce the admission cut-off scores for the first round of admission.

Candidates who are offered admission must confirm their enrollment online. After 5:00 PM on August 30th, any candidate who fails to confirm enrollment will be removed from the list of successful applicants.

Key Admission Dates for University Enrollment in 2025:

No Need to Select Specific Admission Methods

University admission procedures for 2025 feature several updates compared to previous years. Notably, candidates no longer need to select specific admission methods, subject combinations, or method codes. Instead, they are only required to clearly identify the program, major, group of majors, and training institution they wish to apply to.

The National Admission Support System, operated by the Ministry of Education and Training, will automatically use the method that yields the highest score for each candidate during the selection process.

Universities that apply multiple admission methods are required to establish standardized equivalence rules for converting admission thresholds and selection scores across different admission methods, evaluation approaches, and subject combinations, in accordance with the general guidelines issued by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET).

To ensure transparency for applicants, MOET requires that universities publicly announce their equivalence conversion rules no later than the time of publishing the minimum quality assurance threshold for admissions.

According to the current admissions policy, universities may convert foreign language certificates into a score for the foreign language subject within the subject combinations used for admission evaluation. However, the converted foreign language score must not account for more than 50% of the total weight of that subject in the overall admission score.

In addition, the policy sets a maximum cap on total bonus points awarded to candidates holding foreign language certificates. Specifically, the total bonus points must not exceed 10% of the maximum score on the admission scale.

According to MOET's assessment, previous years saw inequities in university admissions, as some institutions overused foreign language certificates as a selection criterion. Excessive bonus points - whether from language certifications, academic awards, or other achievements - often gave certain students a disproportionate advantage.

This situation resulted in unfair disadvantages for candidates who, for objective reasons rather than lack of ability, did not possess such certificates or bonus credentials.