In the PISA 2025 assessment, 94 percent of Vietnamese students said they used AI tools to support their studies. However, only about 70 percent were taught how to evaluate the content that AI produces. This gap raises questions about how well students judge information. At the Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, literature lecturer Tran Le Duy sees unusually polished essays. He asks those students to rewrite their work, and he prefers writing in class.
Experts say schools should not ban AI but must teach students to question it. AI can sound confident while giving wrong information, so learners need to verify each answer. Only 41 percent of students reached the basic reading level, while the average across OECD countries was 69 percent. The OECD is the organisation that runs the PISA tests. The ministry said the new computer-based test makes comparison with past results difficult.