How is the situation of the college entrance examination questions this year? Highlighting Comprehensive Literacy and Ability Test Ability | College Entrance Examination | Proposition
The 2023 National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) has kicked off, with a focus on comprehensive literacy and ability testing in its propositions
Protecting Safety and Setting Sail with Dreams in the College Entrance Examination
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The college entrance examination touches the hearts of millions of people. June 7th is the first day of the national college entrance examination. This year, the number of applicants for the examination reached 12.91 million, with a total of 7726 examination points, 345000 regular examination rooms, and 26000 backup examination rooms. In order to ensure the safety of candidates for the college entrance examination, multiple departments are making every effort. From the perspective of proposition trends, this year's college entrance examination places more emphasis on enhancing the function of soul building and education, highlighting comprehensive literacy and ability testing, and promoting the organic connection between teaching, learning, and examination.
At the entrance of the examination center of the Third Middle School in Chishui City, Guizhou Province, the teacher cheered and encouraged the candidates who entered the examination room. Photo by Wang Changyu
June 7th is the first day of the national college entrance examination. This year is the first time for college entrance examination after the implementation of the COVID-19 "Class B and Class B management". The number of applicants for college entrance examination reached 12.91 million nationwide, a record high.
How is the group exam and proposition situation for this year's college entrance examination? The reporter interviewed the person in charge, experts, and frontline teachers of the Education Examination Institute of the Ministry of Education.
Taking multiple measures to safeguard the safety of the college entrance examination
The reporter learned that in 2023, the national college entrance examination will have 7726 examination points, 345000 regular examination rooms, and 26000 backup examination rooms, with 1.013 million invigilators arranged. The Ministry of Education, together with relevant departments, will guide various regions to take a series of solid and effective measures, and make every effort to ensure the safety of the college entrance examination.
The person in charge of the Education Examination Institute of the Ministry of Education introduced that in order to fully ensure the safety of test questions and papers, strict implementation of one post multiple control and human technology joint prevention is carried out in various links such as test paper ordering, printing, transportation, storage, and distribution. Especially in the process of test paper operation, video surveillance and trajectory tracking are implemented throughout the entire process to strengthen seamless links.
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It is reported that the Ministry of Education, in conjunction with public security, internet and information technology departments, has jointly launched a special action to crack down on cheating. Together with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, they have strengthened the management of the electromagnetic environment around exam centers, with a focus on cracking down on illegal activities of using wireless devices such as mobile phones to cheat in exams. In addition, we will guide various regions to strengthen the standardized management of extracurricular training institutions' behavior related to the college entrance examination, and severely crack down on illegal and irregular activities such as false advertising, illegal training, organized fraud or cheating, and disrupting the order of examination and enrollment.
In terms of strengthening candidate services, in order to coordinate and do a good job in exam epidemic prevention, the Ministry of Education, in conjunction with the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention and other departments, has accurately implemented the requirements of "Class B and Class B management" measures, improved the plan and plan, and clearly formulated 10 detailed requirements, including "setting up examination rooms according to different candidate situations" and "preparing sufficient backup examination rooms and staff", to guide local areas to adapt to local conditions, scientifically and accurately do a good job in exam epidemic prevention.
At the same time, attention should be paid to providing reasonable convenience for disabled candidates to participate in the college entrance examination. The Ministry of Education has specially produced Braille test papers for blind candidates in multiple provinces and provided guidance to over 10000 disabled candidates in various regions. In addition, in conjunction with relevant departments, we will deploy and carry out the college entrance examination escort action, guide various regions to further optimize examination services, carefully ensure comprehensive guarantees for transportation, accommodation, hygiene, personal safety, and other aspects of candidates, and strive to create a safe, comfortable, and warm examination environment.
The person in charge of the Education Examination Institute of the Ministry of Education introduced that in response to possible natural disasters and other sudden public events that may occur during this year's examination period, various regions and departments have further improved emergency plans, refined work measures, strengthened simulation exercises, and ensured that the plans are proactive, not chaotic in the face of danger, and effectively responded to. The Ministry of Education and various regions have mobilized elite forces to form emergency teams, which are on standby 24 hours a day to ensure that they can rush to the scene as soon as possible and handle emergencies quickly.
Outside the examination center of Jilin Experimental Middle School in Changchun City, Jilin Province, traffic police are preparing emergency medicine boxes. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Nan
Emphasis on enhancing the function of soul casting and education
"The 2023 college entrance examination will comprehensively implement the Party's educational policy, implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality and talents, organically integrate the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party into the test questions, guide students' comprehensive development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor, help improve the quality of independent talent cultivation, and serve the selection of top-notch innovative talents," said the person in charge of the Education Examination Institute of the Ministry of Education. It is reported that the Education Examination Institute of the Ministry of Education has ordered the National A and National B exams for use in provinces with old curriculum standards, as well as the New Curriculum Standards I and II exams for use in provinces with new curriculum standards.
One of the characteristics of the 2023 college entrance examination questions is to focus on enhancing the function of soul casting and education. It is reported that taking the Chinese language test as an example, the two materials of the National Grade B Essay Test and the Modern Literature Reading I Material of the New Curriculum Standard Volume II, "Talking about Investigation and Research," actively guide teenagers to draw ideological strength and strengthen their ideals and beliefs.
The national Chinese language exam questions for the college entrance examination fully leverage their disciplinary advantages, carefully selecting materials that reflect the concepts of moral education, aesthetic education, physical education, and labor education, emphasizing the promotion of labor spirit and the cultivation of people's minds. The literary text reading of the National First Class Examination adopts Ba Jin's essay "Mechanical Poetry - One of the Journey Essays" to shape the image of workers from a unique perspective, praise labor, and guide candidates to appreciate the hard work and creativity of workers.
How to select top innovative talents through the college entrance examination? It is understood that this year's college entrance examination questions reflect foundational, comprehensive, applied, and innovative aspects.
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"This year's National College Entrance Examination Mathematics Exam comprehensively tests the core mathematical literacy, emphasizing the important role of mathematics in talent selection." Experts introduce that the 2023 National College Entrance Examination Mathematics Exam fully leverages the role of basic disciplines, highlights the examination of literacy and abilities, focuses on the examination of logical reasoning literacy, identifies thinking qualities, and demonstrates the thinking process, providing candidates with a stage for display and space for expression.
"Emphasizing rational thinking and emphasizing speculative examination" is the view of Zhang Yunjia, a teacher at Henan Experimental Middle School, on this year's college entrance examination Chinese test questions. It is reported that this year's national college entrance examination Chinese language test questions reflect the examination of scientific thinking. For example, stimulating candidates' curiosity, imagination, and curiosity towards science through high-quality and beautiful popular science articles; Test the ability to reason, criticize, and discover in reading speculative articles; In reading scientific papers and treatises, one should examine and explore, summarize and generalize, and verify hypotheses in order to cultivate an attitude of seeking truth and practicality.
Promote the organic connection between teaching, learning, and examination
The person in charge of the Education Examination Institute of the Ministry of Education introduced that the 2023 college entrance examination focuses on matching the actual situation of learning and teaching, and connecting with the high school curriculum standards to promote the organic connection between teaching, learning, and examination. Taking the national math exam questions for the college entrance examination as an example, the proposition emphasizes a deep understanding and flexible mastery of basic knowledge and concepts, and emphasizes the comprehensive application ability of subject knowledge.
"In 2023, a variety of new test questions were used in the national college entrance examination of Chinese, and there were differences in the same module test questions of different test papers. This move released a clear signal: improving scores depends on the accumulation of knowledge and the improvement of ability and quality." said the head of the Education Examination Institute of the Ministry of Education.
For example, the national A-level writing test question "People, Technology, and Time" has obvious speculative characteristics in the materials; The national second volume writing test question "Blossoming alone is not spring" uses two materials that are related and full of tension; The writing test question "The Power of Stories" in Volume I of the New Curriculum Standards, with materials organized around specific topics; The writing test question "Youth's Own Space" in Volume II of the new curriculum standard is a reading and writing combination test, which has been officially used for the first time in the national college entrance examination as a newly launched question type.
"On the one hand, the test questions focus on assessing knowledge, and on the other hand, they pay more attention to assessing students' Chinese language abilities, such as reading comprehension, expression ability, and ability to choose words and sentences." Professor Lu Jianming from Peking University believes that the national Chinese language test questions play a positive guiding role in Chinese education, and in the future, students should be guided to read more and read good books.
Zheng Guihua, a professor at Shanghai Normal University, said that through the college entrance examination, students have not only accepted the examination of knowledge, but also gained spiritual growth, which is conducive to better moral cultivation.