High school : grades 10-12. Before starting high school, each student in hanoi has to take an entrance exam. The higher the score, the better school the student can get into. It even decides what subjects you can take. When done with high school the student has to take another test in order to get a diploma. This system has caused some problems can pay fpr private tutoring and some cannot. Many of the high school teachers also do private tutoring, and they only teach some of the stuff that is on the test to their private students! But...teacher?!?
the vietnam government has pledged to improve the education system by working on some of the problems. They have also promised a stronger focus on english teaching because of how english is not only the world language of business, but will be the regional language of southeast asia once the changes of apec come to pass.