BEIJING, Beijing, September 21 (Lv Chunrong) On the 20th, the Ministry of Education announced the "Guiding Opinions of the Ministry on Further Promoting the Reform of Entrance Examination System in Senior High Schools". Following the introduction of the reform plan for the college entrance examination, the reform plan for the senior high school entrance examination related to the majority of students was finally released.
According to the "Opinions", the junior high school level examination will be reformed, and the subjects and contents of the senior high school entrance examination will change; In terms of enrollment, all localities are encouraged to actively explore the enrollment mode based on the results of the junior high school level examination and the comprehensive quality evaluation. It is worth mentioning that the Opinions clearly reduce and strictly control bonus points.

The content of the exam will be adjusted — —
What’s the difference between the junior high school level test and the traditional senior high school entrance examination?
On the 20th, the Ministry of Education issued the Guiding Opinions on Further Promoting the Reform of the Enrollment System for Senior High School Examinations, proposing that by 2020, an enrollment model for senior high school examinations based on the examination results of junior high school level and comprehensive quality evaluation will be initially formed.
What do you take in the junior high school level exam? What is the relationship with the traditional senior high school entrance examination? The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education said that the junior high school proficiency test mainly measures the degree to which students meet the learning requirements stipulated by the state. The test scores are the basic basis for students to graduate from junior high school and enter higher schools, which clarifies the multiple functions of the junior high school proficiency test.
According to the Ministry of Education, the implementation of the junior high school level examination is not to cancel the senior high school entrance examination, but to combine the junior high school graduation examination with the senior high school entrance examination, so as to realize multi-purpose of one examination, avoid multiple examinations, and reduce the burden and pressure on students to prepare for exams repeatedly. In recent years, many places have carried out the exploration of "integrating the two examinations", but the names and requirements are different, and this time they have been unified and standardized. For some areas that have not yet implemented the "integration of the two examinations", this reform has also given a buffer period, requiring them to actively create conditions to gradually transition to the junior high school level examination.
As for the content of the examination, according to the Opinions and the curriculum standards of compulsory education, the content of the junior middle school academic level examination is determined, so as to improve the quality of the proposition, reduce the content of simple memory and mechanical training, strengthen the connection with students’ life and social reality, and pay attention to examining students’ ability to comprehensively use what they have learned to analyze and solve problems.
In this regard, Wang Ming, a researcher at the Education Development Research Center of the Ministry of Education, analyzed in an interview with Zhongxin. com that the content of the exam focuses on repetitive training of mechanical memory, which is a prominent problem in the current senior high school entrance examination. After the adjustment of the future examination content, strange questions, partial questions and difficult problems will be avoided, which will also reduce the time for students to simply memorize and mechanically train, and reduce the pressure on students to prepare for the exam.
Wang Ming also pointed out that the examination content is closer to students’ life and social reality, which is conducive to broadening students’ knowledge and allowing students to learn not only from books, but also from life.

Examination subjects have changed — —
Incorporate physical education for general examinations into admission scoring subjects.
Not only the content of the examination has been adjusted, but also the examination subjects have changed. "General examination" is a major concern of the reform of the senior high school entrance examination. According to the "Opinions", areas that have implemented the "integration of two examinations" for junior high school graduation and senior high school enrollment should be unified and standardized as the junior high school academic level examination, and all subjects set in the "Experimental Program for Compulsory Education Curriculum Setting" should be included in the scope of the junior high school academic level examination, so as to guide students to study each course carefully and ensure the basic quality of junior high school education.
What are the considerations behind the implementation of the general examination? In this regard, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education said that the subjects set in the national curriculum plan are included in the scope of the academic proficiency test, with the aim of guiding students to study each course carefully, overcoming the tendency of "not taking the test, not teaching, not taking the test and not learning" in some subjects, and guiding students to lay a common foundation and ensure the basic quality of compulsory education.
It is worth noting that although all subjects are included in the examination scope, not all subjects are admission scoring subjects, and the composition of some admission scoring subjects will also be reformed in the future.
This plan proposes that the composition of admission scoring subjects should be reformed in the pilot areas, and some subjects should be selected as admission scoring subjects from junior high school level examination subjects. In addition to Chinese, mathematics and foreign language subjects, other specific subjects and quantities should be determined according to the principle of giving consideration to both arts and sciences and moderate burden, so as to prevent group partiality and increase students’ burden.
In addition, the "Opinions" specifically pointed out that it is necessary to incorporate physical education subjects into admission scoring subjects, scientifically determine test scores or grade requirements, and guide students to strengthen physical exercise.

Recruiting work should be improved — —
Admission into the comprehensive quality evaluation.
The junior high school level examination is changing, and the recruitment of the senior high school entrance examination will also change. In the future, the senior high school entrance examination is expected to be no longer based on scores. This time, the Opinions clearly require the pilot areas to take comprehensive quality evaluation as the basis or reference for enrollment, and refine and improve the evaluation contents and requirements in five aspects: ideological and moral character, academic level, physical and mental health, artistic accomplishment and social practice, so that comprehensive quality evaluation can really play a role in enrollment and break the score theory.
Wang Ming said that at present, the comprehensive quality evaluation of junior high school students is still under exploration. In some places, the comprehensive quality evaluation is only regarded as the "threshold" for independent enrollment or quota allocation of senior high school entrance examination, and its role is relatively limited.
"It should be said that the reform needs to be promoted. Taking comprehensive quality evaluation as the basis or reference for high school enrollment, we still need to continue to make active efforts." Wang Ming said.
Then, how to operate the comprehensive quality evaluation? According to the requirements of the Opinions, junior high schools should publicize and review the activity records and factual materials used for enrollment, establish a comprehensive quality evaluation file for each student, and provide it to senior high schools for enrollment.
According to the requirements, archival materials should be focused, concise and clear, and easy to use in enrollment. Junior high schools and teachers should guide students to make realistic records, sort out and select representative activity records and typical factual materials.
Wang Ming pointed out that "the implementation of comprehensive quality evaluation requires less subjective evaluation, more objective presentation, less summative evaluation and more process evaluation."
The bonus items will be reduced — —
Cancel sports, art and other student bonus items.
In addition, the extra points for the senior high school entrance examination that have attracted much attention from the outside world will also be greatly reduced. The "Opinions" proposes to cancel the extra points for students such as sports and art, and the relevant specialties and performances are included in the students’ comprehensive quality evaluation files. The provincial education administrative departments should organize to clean up and standardize the bonus items and scores in the local area, cancel the unreasonable bonus items, strictly control the bonus points according to the relevant provisions of the state and the local actual reserved bonus items, and improve the publicity system for candidates’ bonus qualification examination.
In this regard, some experts have analyzed that the bonus items for the senior high school entrance examination include national bonus items and local bonus items, which can be subdivided into encouraging bonus items, rewarding bonus items and compensatory bonus items. Among them, some compensatory bonus items, such as ethnic bonus items, are necessary, but others are unreasonable.
Experts say that some bonus items, such as "three good" students’ bonus points and sports competitions, should be cancelled. Some very unreasonable projects need to be cancelled. For example, it is unreasonable for parents to contribute to attracting investment and children to get extra points in the senior high school entrance examination. In addition, the one-child bonus policy should also be adjusted with the introduction of the two-child policy.