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Candidates will be allowed to bring recording devices into exam rooms when they sit for national high school and college admission exams this year, the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) said during a tele-conference on Tuesday.

Students can bring cameras and audio and video recorders as long as these devices cannot display pictures, play the recorded files on the spot, or transmit them out of exam rooms, MoET noted.

Other devices that can either immediately play or show what they have recorded or transfer files outside the rooms are prohibited, the ministry asserted.

MoET had previously banned the usage of all recording devices during the exams.

Allowing such devices will help prevent cheating, the ministry said, referring to last year’s scandal in which two students taped proctors watching and helping test-takers cheat on their national high school graduation exam at a private high school in the northern province of Bac Giang.

Bac Giang education authorities then disciplined 42 educators and school staff members, including the dismissal of a principal and two vice principals.

The two students who did the filming escaped any punishment and passed the exam.

Vietnamese students often take their high school graduation exam in early June, and college admission tests follow one month later.