FPT Applies AI Monitoring to Ensure Transparency in the National Final of Violympic

Nearly 150,000 contestants will compete in the National Final round of Violympic 2025–2026 over two days, March 21–22, 2026.

Students participating in Violympic rounds at various levels in the 2025–2026 academic year.

Nearly 150,000 contestants reach the National Final

In the 2025–2026 academic year, Violympic recorded over 1 million students participating, with nearly 6 million test attempts on the system. After passing Preliminary, School-level, Cluster-level, and Provincial/City-level rounds, nearly 150,000 top contestants have officially advanced to the National Final. The acceptance rate for the final round is 1 in 10, equivalent to 10% of total participants.

Compared to last year, the number of National Final contestants has nearly doubled. One of the main reasons is the inclusion of Mathematics for Grade 1 students in this round, expanding early access opportunities and marking a new step in building logical thinking foundations from primary education.

The official competition will take place on March 21–22, with students from Grade 1 to Grade 11 competing in subjects including Mathematics, Mathematics in English, Vietnamese, Natural Sciences, and History & Geography. The exams are organized into 10 official sessions and 5 backup sessions.

Currently, nearly 1,200 test councils have been registered nationwide by schools and Departments of Education, including nearly 300 in remote, border, and island areas. To prepare, the organizing committee has conducted a series of online training sessions to standardize procedures, guide the installation of monitoring systems, and handle potential issues—ensuring all test sites meet infrastructure and personnel requirements.

Representing a disadvantaged area, Mr. Hoang Van Sau, a teacher at Son Thuy Primary School (Thanh Hoa), shared:
“Our school has rechecked all computer labs, internet connections, and prepared additional equipment for online monitoring. This is the first year our students are participating in the National Final, so teachers, parents, and students are both excited and anxious. We hope they will stay confident and achieve their best results.”

Notably, the entire organizational process this year—from candidate lists, test council registration, room allocation, monitoring link distribution, to report submission—has been fully digitized on an admin system. This allows schools and test councils to track progress easily, reduce manual workload, and minimize errors.

Additionally, this technological optimization enables independent candidates to use the “National Test Council Lookup” feature to find and register for shared test locations, ensuring 100% of eligible students have the opportunity to compete.

This year, independent candidates can proactively use the “National Test Council Lookup” feature to register.

Multi-layer monitoring technology ensures transparency

With such a large number of participants, monitoring is implemented through a strict multi-layer model: in-room proctors, online supervision by the organizing committee via cameras, and AI systems that automatically detect cheating.

Sharing about this year’s organization, Mr. Dang Van Dat, Head of Violympic Development and representative of the organizing committee, said:
“The system can detect abnormal behaviors such as copying questions, using AI tools, translation software, frequent tab switching, or unusually fast completion times. In cases of serious violations, the system can automatically lock the test or invalidate results immediately without manual intervention.”
This technology has been further upgraded from previous years, maximizing transparency.

At the online monitoring layer, nearly 1,200 test sites are required to maintain continuous software connections to transmit real-time video and audio to the central monitoring system throughout the two exam days.

Students take the exam under online supervision, with live feeds transmitted to the central monitoring system.

The combination of advanced technology and structured organization is expected to ensure that the National Final of Violympic 2025–2026 is conducted rigorously, transparently, and smoothly across all test sites nationwide.

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About Violympic

Launched in 2008, Violympic is an online academic competition organized by FPT Corporation. Over nearly two decades, it has attracted millions of students each year, significantly contributing to the application of information technology in teaching and learning, in line with digital transformation trends.

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