Reign title: Quang Thuận IV (1463)
Erection time: on 15th of 8th Lunar month of 15th Hồng Đức reign title (1484)
Size of stele: 152cm in height, 119cm in width, 17cm in thickness.
Shape: Flat, stone gray color
Pediment of the stele has an arched frame decorated with curling clouds. The body is rectangular and placed on the back of a tortoise. The shell of tortoise is curved and there is a small spine in the middle, the leg has five claws.
The Royal exam attracted 1,400 Confucian students competing with one another at the examination site; 44 of them became laureates. On the 16th day of the 2nd lunar month, King Lê Thánh Tông sat on the veranda of his Palace and posed questions about the fundamentals of sovereign governance. He appointed Nguyễn Lỗi (title: Kiểm hiệu Tư đồ Bình chương sự) to be the chief examiner, and the Rector of the Quốc Tử Giám Lê Niệm to take charge of the exam.
Academician Nguyễn Như Đổ (title: Môn hạ sảnh Tả ty Tả Gián nghị đại phu, Tri Bắc đạo quân dân bạ tịch); Academician Nguyễn Vĩnh Tích (title: Hàn lâm viện Thừa chỉ học sĩ, Tri Đông đạo quân dân bạ tịch) and the Rector of the Quốc Tử Giám Nguyễn Bá Ký submitted the exam papers to the Emperor. Nguyễn Phục (title: Chính sự viện Tham nghị chính sự) as supervisor.
After reading all of exam papers, King Lê Thánh Tông rated Lương Thế Vinh from Thiên Bản district, Nghĩa Hưng precinct (now Vụ Bản district, Nam Định province) to the Trạng nguyên (1st-grade laureate); Nguyễn Đức Trinh from Thanh Lâm district, Nam Sách precinct (now in Nam Sách district, Hải Dương province) to the Bảng nhãn (2nd-grade laureate); Quách Đình Bảo from Phúc Khê commune, Thanh Quan district, Thái Bình precinct to the Thám hoa (3rd-grade laureate).
Through the inscription, it demonstrates the king's esteem for the newly graduated doctoral laureates. On the 22nd day, King Lê Thánh Tông sat in Kính Thiên Palace and ordered the names of the laureates to be publicized. The responsible mandarin of the Ministry of Rites posted on the Golden Board the laureates’ names at the Đông Hoa Gate. The King bestowed on the laureates ceremonial costumes and treated them to a Royal Banquet to show his particular respect and favors to them. The text also mentions the regret of not being able to erect a stone stele immediately after organizing the departmental examination: “Yet 22 years have elapsed since then and a stone stele has only just been set up. This is a shortcoming in our system of State rites”