Students check their results for the high-school entrance exams. — VNA/VNS Photo

HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) on Tuesday morning announced the results of the nine subjects in the 2023 National High School Examination, with an explosion of perfect scores in citizenship education.

There are 14,693 students getting a perfect score, but only one student received a score of 10 in literature.

In 2022, the country recorded five perfect scores in literature.

In total, the whole country recorded 16,427 perfect scores, which is nearly three times higher than last year. In 2022, this number was 5,560 perfect scores.

The Civic Education accounts for 89.4 per cent of all perfect scores in the country. It has consistently been one of the subjects with the highest scores since it was included in the National High School Examination five years ago.

History ranks second in the list of the number of perfect scores nationwide. There are a total of 789 students who achieved a perfect score of 10 in History, accounting for 4.8 per cent of all perfect scores.

English also witnessed 555 students getting top marks of 10.

Other subjects also have perfect scores: Mathematics with 12 students, 70 in Physics, 137 in Chemistry, 135 in Biology, and 35 in Geography.

According to the results released by MoET, the average score in mathematics is 6.25, in literature 6.86, and in foreign languages it is 5.45.

A total of 876,102 students took the foreign language exam this year.

This subject has the highest number of students scoring below the average, with 392,784 (accounting for 44.83 per cent).

Physics, Chemistry, and Biology have average scores of 6.57, 6.74, and 6.39, respectively.

Notably, Civic Education has the highest average score with 8.29. In History it is 6.03 and in Geography 6.15.

HCM City has the highest average score in the subject of English, with 6.76.

Bình Dương, Hà Nội, Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu and Đà Nẵng rank in the follow-up. Meanwhile, Hà Giang has the lowest English exam score.

Among the exams with scores under 1, the Foreign language subject has the highest number with 192 students, followed by Mathematics with 123, and Geography with 112. The subject with the fewest scores under 1 is Chemistry, with only 14.

The nationwide top student in this year's examination is from Nam Định Province, achieving a remarkable score of 57.3.

The only student who got a perfect score of 10 in Literature is also from this province.

Vĩnh Phúc Province has the highest average score in the 2023 National High School Examination while Hà Giang recorded the lowest average score.

The results of the examination are used to determine whether a student meets the graduation requirements of high school and serve as the basis for universities and colleges to establish admission thresholds. — VNS