Analysis of the Distribution of English Test Scores in the Vietnamese National High School Graduation Examination in 2023

Abstract

English has become the global language and plays an important role in order for people to communicate and fit into the real world. Learning English at high schools in Vietnam has become a necessary need of students. The aim of this paper is to analyse the distribution of English test scores in the Vietnamese National High School Graduation Examination in 2023. English test scores were first collected from 876,102 examinees and used for the analysis. The distribution of English test scores in 2023 was then identified using statistical analysis (histogram and descriptive statistics). It was found that the distribution of English test scores in the Vietnamese high school graduation examinations in 2023 was skewed to the right. Over 392,000 examinees accounting for 44.8% of the examinees, scored below 5 in which a total of 494 examinees had a perfect score of 10. A large number of examinees having scores of from 6.0 to 9.0 was also identified. English scored lowest among Vietnam's high school graduation examination subjects. Findings in this study suggest that, generally, the English tests in 2023 were suitable for the goal of graduation recognition. Keywords: Distribution, English test scores, High school graduation examination, Vietnam.