Students in Ho Chi Minh City go home in the rain after taking the 2025 High School Graduation Math exam

At 3:30 p.m., many parents wore raincoats and sat in their cars in the heavy rain waiting for students to finish their math exam at Trung Vuong High School (District 1).

Parents all kept their eyes on the school gate, waiting for their children to come out of the exam room. Ms. Thach Le Phuc Thinh (District 1) said that the whole family was nervous before this important transition exam, especially since this year the children took the exam in a new format. During the exam preparation process, she focused on ensuring her children's nutrition. She accompanied them on both exam days, bringing along all the necessary sun and rain protection items.

Candidates walked out of the exam room in the heavy rain, supported by parents and volunteers holding umbrellas. On the afternoon of June 26, candidates took the 90-minute math exam.

Bui Mai Thi was radiant as soon as she stepped out of the exam room and her mother came to pick her up. "I was quite worried because my math test wasn't very good, but seeing my mother with a cute umbrella made me feel better," Thi said.

Despite the heavy rain, the two brothers Le Quoc Bao and Le Bao Quoc still enthusiastically discussed the results of their tests. The two twin brothers were radiant because they both did well on the test and could get good or excellent scores.

A candidate crawls into his mother's raincoat to go home after the exam on the afternoon of June 26. The hallway is packed with people, many candidates and their parents have difficulty finding each other.

The parent's face lit up when she saw her child coming out. "It's raining so hard, go home and rest, tomorrow's exam," the woman called out.

Hoang Minh's mother put a raincoat on her son and asked about his test results. Minh said he did quite well on the first day of the exam in Literature and Math.

"I found the test quite difficult, especially the arithmetic progression questions. I could finish the first half of the test very quickly, but the rest took quite a bit of time to find the answer," Kim Chi said.