English scores in high school exam reflect regional inequalities

A foreigner teaches English to Vietnamese students of an English center at a park in HCMC, 2019. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Nguyen.

This year's national high school graduation exams have revealed an atypical score spectrum in English scores that experts say show education quality differences between urban and rural areas.

In the 2021 examination held July 7-9, over 871,000 students sat for seven foreign language exams: English, Russian, French, China, German, Korean and Japanese. Almost 99 percent of the students chose English and recorded an average score of 5.84 out of 10.

While this year's average English score was 1.26 marks higher than last year, the score spectrum showed an anomaly with high numbers of students scoring between 4-5 and 8-9 marks. Normally a score spectrum would only have a single peak in a particular score range, not two.

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