The score is more pure, the exam is more fair

Zhejiang News Client commentator Ji Haitao

At a press conference held on September 15th, the relevant person in charge introduced that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Education has cleared and standardized the college entrance examination extra points to achieve the goal of "greatly reduced and strict control". At present, five types of national college entrance examination bonus projects such as sports special students, middle school students Olympic competitions, science and technology competitions, provincial outstanding students, and ideological products have outstanding deeds, and gradually cancel 95 local bonus projects, and further reduce the addition of plus addition Score.

Education fairness is one of the most concerned social fairness, while the fairness of the college entrance examination is the most direct and most concentrated manifestation of education fairness. From the country to the local area, the extraction projects are canceled at different levels to make the purity of the scores higher. Candidates' starting lines are more consistent and fairness is higher.

The original intention of the college entrance examination was to encourage and select students with expertise or prominent deeds to guide students' comprehensive quality. Even if it is no longer "one test for life", the college entrance examination is still one of the most important exams in each high school student in the lifetime. At the same time, it also assumes important functions of selecting talents for the country and society. It is no exaggeration to say that the college entrance examination is fair, and the bottom line is even more red. The word "fairness" must be deeply reflected in all aspects of the college entrance examination.

However, in the actual operation over the years, the additional points of the college entrance examination have been criticized a lot. For example, there are no uniform standards, free discretion and elasticity. In addition, the bonus score is too high. You must know that you can get an extra point in the college entrance examination, which may be a group of people. Not to mention that in order to allow children who do not meet qualified children, individual parents can obtain illegal bonus points through various dark box operations, resulting in corruption in the education field. These phenomena seriously hurt the fair education and fairness of the college entrance examination. It is a great injustice for ordinary students who have studied hard. There are also some parents who seem to "use reasonable use" rules, so that children are not out of interest and hobbies, but to add "assault" specialties to increase the additional burden of high school students who have already learned the pressure. Such utilitarian results and the original intention of bonus are running counter.

In fact, the selection of those students with excellent academic science can generally be screened through the normal college entrance examination, and there is no need to set too many other links. There are too many "special terms", which will cause management loopholes, leaving room for dark box operations.

Of course, adjusting and reducing the extra points of the college entrance examination does not mean to completely cancel all bonus points. Instead, it is necessary to establish a unified and clear rule after "weight loss" and adhere to the principle of prudential and moderate. For example, the preferential treatment of martyrs' children and the moderate accurate extra points of ethnic minorities candidates with relatively weak educational resources, which reflect the fairness and overall fairness of society. However, the process of this operation must be transparent, open, and traceable.

The score is more pure, and the exam is more fair. In recent years, the reform of college entrance examinations in various places has been constantly exploring. For example, the provinces that have used the national unified proposition test papers of the college entrance examination have reached 27. The important orientation of reform is to make the college entrance examination more transparent, fair, and make the enrollment links more rigorous, and truly play the role of selection talents. At present, my country has built the world's largest higher education system, and the gross enrollment rate of higher education has also increased from 30%in 2012 to 57.8%in 2021. There are still some optimization space in education fairness. How to make the word "fairness" more deeply reflected in this extremely important test in the country and the people, the whole society still needs to continue to work hard.

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