This article is from WeChat public account: “Look” (ID: outlookweekly1981) , author: Zhiwen (members of the Group Steering Committee for the national Education examination), the original starting on 31 March 2020, entitled extension “observed Shu entrance The 4 Reasons “, the header picture comes from: Visual China.
The question “Whether the college entrance examination is postponed”, which is of great concern to the society, finally has the answer: with the exception of Hubei and Beijing, the postponement is one month. Because Hubei and Beijing are still in the special situation of first-level prevention and control, the local government decides the entrance examination time. Although the exact time of the two places is not yet determined, it is certain that there will be a delay of at least one month.
The discussion on whether the college entrance examination has been postponed has not stopped since the outbreak, which is a topic full of controversy. As far as I know, the education department has conducted a wide range of investigations. Until today, the decision to postpone the extension has been clearly defined. This is also a difficult decision based on a comprehensive evaluation.
In my opinion, the postponement of the college entrance examination is not only to ensure security, it is necessary for at least four aspects, or the reason:
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Deferring the college entrance examination to ensure fairness for all candidates is the mission and bottom line of the college entrance examination.
In China, whether we admit it or not, the college entrance examination has far surpassed the concept of a college entrance examination, education, and is the starting point of social equity and justice. Therefore, we must be careful about the fairness of the college entrance examination.
Although the impact of the epidemic is universal, it has an impact on all candidates from the perspective of test preparation. This impact is fair to all candidates, but from a micro perspective, it is not entirely true, especially between urban and rural .
Cessations and suspensions, online helpWith the help of everyone, everyone has entered the online study preparation stage. However, from a macro perspective, the differences between urban and rural areas are still obvious. Regardless of school or family in big cities, the Internet and related technical equipment, including parental literacy, are relatively high, and they are clearly in a competitive advantage. For rural students, both from the network and hardware perspectives, they are at a disadvantage, and there is a gap between the effect of preparing the test at home and the class. In particular, for some candidates in remote areas and poor families, the impact is direct.
Recently, the media has reported many times that students who are “online classes” or students who ran to the top of the mountain to find signals to study online, not to mention that individual candidates may not have any communication means at all. For these candidates, the preparation for the examination under the epidemic situation is obviously unfair competition.
Although the proportion of such candidates is very small, for the college entrance examination, even if it is only one percent or one thousandth, we need to take it seriously to minimize the injustice at the starting point as much as possible. To ensure fair preparation and fair competition for all candidates.
Fairness is the most important thing, starting from the shortest piece. Therefore, from this perspective, delaying the college entrance examination and giving some normal preparation time after the resumption of classes will also ensure the fairness of these candidates to the greatest extent.
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Deferring the college entrance examination, giving candidates sufficient time to prepare for the exam, alleviating the anxiety between candidates and their parents, and also responding to the concerns of the common people.
Affected by the epidemic, so far most provinces and cities have not yet resumed their classes. It is predicted that the comprehensive resumption of classes in elementary and middle schools will be in mid-late April. Although the junior high school junior high school resumes classes, compared with previous years, it has lost a full 2 months of preparation time.
The impact of the epidemic on college entrance examination preparation is objective and obvious. It has caused widespread anxiety. Many parents of candidates have also publicly called for the college entrance examination to be postponed. Therefore, it is necessary to delay the college entrance examination, actively respond to such appeals and needs, and give candidates and schools as much normal preparation time as possible, so that more candidates can play their actual level in the college entrance examination, which determines the fate .
And for several provinces and cities in the first year of the new college entrance examination this year, this postponement decision is particularly necessary.
Of course, some people have different opinions on this, and believe that the impact of the epidemic on everyone is the same. Moreover, the college entrance examination is actually a score-level admission, not an absolute score. In other words, home preparation Fair to most people, no need to delay. However, for the college entrance examinationFor a highly powerful examination, we must give the most comprehensive consideration, and we cannot simply judge from a technical perspective.
The impact of the epidemic on test preparation is objective, and the anxiety of parents and candidates is also objective. What should I do? In this case, we cannot just talk about technical factors. At the same time, we also need to focus on a sensitive social issue:
It is almost certain that the test taker scores this year will inevitably be inferior to previous years / span>, It is easy to produce a social “attribution” phenomenon, that is, candidates and parents are more likely to attribute the unsatisfactory test results to the epidemic situation, due to insufficient test preparation, rather than their own efforts. Once this phenomenon occurs, it is easy to accumulate public grievances and generate serious public opinion incidents. From this perspective, we need to plan ahead to alleviate this anxiety.
More importantly, delaying the exam for one month will not have a negative impact on other jobs. Why not? The college entrance examination was held in July 17 years ago. Later, it was not unfeasible to advance to June only because of the influence of the high temperature in July.
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In the face of a raging international epidemic, it is necessary to postpone one month to allow enough time and space for the college entrance examination.
Global cases are approaching 800,000, and domestic cases, and overseas imported cases have approached 800, and are widely distributed in more than 20 provinces and cities across China’s east, middle, and west. There are 30 million overseas Chinese and 1.6 million students studying abroad. Although the country has been closed to non-Chinese nationals, it is impossible to close the country to Chinese people.
In this context, at one stage, the number of imported cases may continue to increase, and the possibility of imported cases triggering sexual transmission in the local community exists, which has caused some uncertainty in our domestic epidemic situation. Sex.
Simply based on the current domestic epidemic situation, it seems that the college entrance examination does not need to be postponed. It can be continued in June, but due to international influences, once the domestic epidemic situation repeats, delaying the college entrance examination at that time will cause greater distress to candidates and parents confusion. Therefore, in order to avoid repeated revisions of the date of the college entrance examination, it is necessary to postpone one month and allow enough time and space.
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Deferring the college entrance examination can also provide more adequate preparation time for college entrance examination questions, examination tasks, and other related work.
The epidemic situation has objectively caused some delays and impacts on the work related to the college entrance examination, such as the examination of candidates’ related qualifications, the preparation of proposition work, such as the implementation of the medical examination for the college entrance examination. The appropriate delay in the college entrance examination also provides more sufficient preparation time for these supporting tasks to ensure the smooth implementation of the college entrance examination in the epidemic.
Before we decided to postpone the college entrance examination, the UK has also stopped or cancelled important entrance examinations such as GSE and A-LEVEL because of the epidemic situation. South Korea also cancelled related entrance examinations recently. Our domestic TOEFL and IELTS examinations also All exams in February, March, and April have been cancelled.
Although historically, there have been extensions of the college entrance examination in some places due to emergencies. However, under the epidemic, the college entrance examination was forced to be postponed nationwide, which also set a new record for New China.
In 2003, during the special period of SARS, the college entrance examination insisted to advance from July to June according to the original plan, in order to make the candidates not to toss and avoid the scorching heat. Today, 17 years later, because of the new crown epidemic, the education department has withstood the pressure to delay the college entrance examination from June to July. It is also for candidates, safety first, fairness first!
This article is from WeChat public account: ” look “(ID: outlookweekly1981) , author: Zhiwen (members of the Group Steering Committee for the national Education examination), the original starting on 31 March 2020, entitled extension of “observation Shu entrance 4:00 the reason”.