I currently am a freshman in a Ho Chi Minh City university. Last year, I attended the high school graduation and university entrance exam. I find it strange that there is always something wrong every examination season: debate over the test’s subject, or changing the marking schemes, and this year the leak of a video showing students cheating during the test. A friend of mine who has studied in Australia since tenth grade told me about taking exams there and I felt like I was listening to a fairy tale. On the exam day, students take the test at their own school supervised by their own teachers. At a designated time, the teachers check their email, print out the tests, collect them back after 180 minutes and send them to a marking committee. Teachers do not tip off students, proctors do not watch strictly, and no one uses cheat sheets. Results from the exam will be used for high school graduation and university entrance. To get into college, the academic performance of 12 years is also considered so students cannot play for the whole year and then only study for the final exam. The Australian Ministry of Education would pick random schools and check exams during a whole school year to see if it is too easy for students and if the tests are marked properly. If everything goes well, the Ministry then approves the school’s results. Upon hearing the story, I wished I could study in Australia. It was not for their great libraries or laboratories, but the simple and honest testing system. It is something different between the education systems of a rich and poor country. Looking back at my 12 years at school, I feel upset. We were crammed with sample writing pieces and standard math solutions without any explanation. We were always obsessed with studying and taking exams. We always struggled to get into good schools but once we have entered college, we could just take it easy because everyone can graduate. Dear leaders at the Ministry of Education, hundreds of millions of dong would be saved if teachers did not need to move to supervise other schools and to mark exams, if students and families did not have to come to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to take university entrance exams. With such an amount of money, we would build several good schools.