Is it worth it? How can "Sunshine Volunteer" really relieve anxiety? ,New Observation on Education丨Sky-high College Entrance Examination Volunteer Consultation

Release time:Jun 18, 2024 15:35 PM

This Sunday, Shanghai students will be able to check their college entrance examination scores. After the college entrance examination, filling in the application form becomes the most important task for the students' families. In recent years, avoiding "pitfall" majors and "doing well in the exam is not as good as filling in the application form well" have made the "application anxiety" of students and parents worse. Not long ago, topics such as "Zhang Xuefeng's 2026 application service is sold out" and "the application course priced at nearly 20,000 yuan is snapped up" have also become hot searches.

At the same time, this year, the Ministry of Education’s Sunshine College Entrance Examination Platform launched the “Sunshine Volunteer” information service system for the first time. It was officially launched on June 17, providing free volunteer reporting services to candidates.

So, why does the "sky-high college entrance examination volunteer consulting service" appear? How can "sunshine volunteering" truly alleviate the "volunteer anxiety" of candidates? Jiefang Daily Shangguan News reporter interviewed relevant education experts.

Long before the college entrance examination, Zhang Xuefeng's volunteer application APP "Fengxue Weilai" launched the college entrance examination application service, with products such as the Fengxue Volunteer Dream Card priced at 15,999 yuan and the Fengxue Volunteer Dream Card priced at 8,999 yuan. His studio "Fengxue Weilai" said that there are more than 3,000 students, 60% of whom are not high school students, and there are even many junior high school students; a new batch of places for 2025-2026 will be opened in August, and you will need to go to the APP to wait for the number. In this regard, Fan Xiudi, director of the Education Evaluation Center of Tongji University, pointed out that this is likely a means of "hunger marketing"; more importantly, this utilitarian approach of treating education as a business, taking advantage of parents' anxiety, and harvesting parents as "leeks" is not only misleading, but also very harmful.

In response to this "chaos", the Ministry of Education launched the "Sunshine Volunteer" this year. The platform integrates massive data, detailed professional databases, school databases, employment prospects, etc., and is open to tens of millions of candidates for free. At the same time, it provides targeted professional and career psychological assessments to help candidates better understand their majors and career preferences.

The reporter logged into the "Sunshine Volunteer" platform and found that the system not only provides a rich database of colleges and universities, employment prospects and other data, but also provides multiple reference information for filling out applications, helping candidates "choose universities and majors". At the same time, the system can also provide personalized volunteer recommendations. Based on the admissions of previous years, the candidates' college entrance examination scores, and the principle of "rushing, stabilizing and guaranteeing", combined with the results of psychological assessments, personalized volunteer reference suggestions are generated, showing all-round data such as admissions, professional satisfaction, and employment destinations.

The reason why there are sky-high prices for college entrance examination volunteer application consulting services is that there are not enough services for career education and further study planning. Fan Xiudi pointed out that originally, according to the requirements of the college entrance examination reform launched in 2014, schools should provide students with career education and subject selection guidance, and guide students to determine their initial further study goals, which university to apply for and which major to choose based on their subject interests and future career interests in the first year of high school, and choose a subject combination that suits them based on this goal. However, many schools do not provide students with education and guidance in this regard, but instead tell students to choose subjects in a way that will get high scores.

The result is that when filling out college application forms and choosing universities and majors, many students do not have clear goals and do not know what majors they are interested in. Some students and parents do not have their own ideas about the choice of schools and majors. In response to this problem, those "Internet celebrity teachers" who can give simple and clear answers to what majors can be applied for, what majors cannot be applied for, and which majors are "pitfalls" are sought after by many parents.

"In fact, the process of filling out the application form is the process of students exploring themselves, understanding the school, and exploring the major. And this kind of analytical and thinking ability is also the ability that college students need to have in the face of future development." Fan Xiu Di believes that students must adhere to the principle of interest when choosing schools and majors, first, the principle of interest, secondly the principle of ability, and thirdly, they must consider the prospects of academic development and career development in an integrated manner, and not just look at the present.

The newly launched "College Entrance Examination Volunteer" platform not only provides a database of more than 2,800 colleges and universities nationwide, but also provides comprehensive college satisfaction from real-name online voting by more than 5 million students, including fees, accommodation conditions, spare time, school environment, etc. "These are actually factors that students need to consider when learning about schools and majors." In addition to having a huge database, "Sunshine Volunteer" summarizes information such as school introductions, major introductions, and career prospects. At the same time, the system can provide targeted professional and career psychological assessments. It is reported that the Ministry of Education invited domestic authoritative psychological experts to develop relevant career assessment tools, which help candidates better understand their majors and career tendencies from four dimensions: interests, values, personality, and subject tendencies.

Fan Xiudi added that "Sunshine Volunteer" provides a way to understand oneself, the school, and the major from multiple perspectives. However, one cannot completely rely on the suggestions of this platform. For example, one cannot pursue the reputation of the university or the name of the major alone. One must also consider the course settings, the industry-university-research cooperation base, etc. The "selected volunteers" after the examinees' own exploration and thinking are in line with their actual abilities, their future career ideals, and their life development plans.

Is it worth it? How can "Sunshine Volunteer" really relieve anxiety? ,New Observation on Education丨Sky-high College Entrance Examination Volunteer Consultation

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