Armed escorts, special guards... Uncovering the extraordinary "journey" of high exam papers

◎ Intern reporter Du Qian

The annual college entrance examination kicked off on June 6. When candidates sit in the examination room and receive the test paper handed by the invigilator, have they ever wondered what kind of extraordinary "journey" such a crucial test paper has undergone before it is finally delivered to them?

Propositions, printing, transportation, storage... Behind each link is the hard work of the participants, and there is also a special scientific and technological strength, so that one after another high examination papers can be delivered to the candidates without fail.

"Mysterious" propositional man

About 2 months before the college entrance examination, the college entrance examination candidates will begin to select, usually composed of college teachers and middle school teachers, a process known as "enrollment". Relevant departments will conduct a comprehensive review of the selected propositionees, strengthen confidentiality education, and sign confidentiality agreements.

During the college entrance examination proposition, the proposition is not allowed to use any communication equipment, and can only communicate externally through a fixed telephone, and the content of the call will be monitored throughout the process. That is, the mission subject person luckily brought the communication equipment into the proposition place, and the signal blocking equipment installed everywhere in the place will also make the mobile phone and the like unable to be used normally.

After the initial formation of the high school examination paper, it must go through repeated tests and inspections by experts until the consensus of all people is unified and there are no more differences, and the high school examination paper is finally completed. In this process, the proposition person must not only rack his brains in the proposition process, but also compare the finished questions with the exercises in the exercise books on the market to prevent repeated questions.

After the end of the proposition work, the proposition person still cannot leave the proposition place, but must wait until the end of the college entrance examination, when all the candidates have walked out of the examination room, they can leave. Even if they leave, according to the regulations, the staff members who participate in the proposition may not participate in the compilation and publication of relevant guidance books and materials for the college entrance examination without the permission of the examination department within a certain period of time.

Printing unit garbage and sewers are strictly controlled

Every college entrance examination season, the news about the printing of college entrance examination papers in prison always arouses everyone's curiosity, which is not for nothing. Units that can print papers for the high school examination must have the qualification of printing Grade A state secret carriers jointly issued by the Ministry of Education and the State Secrets Bureau, and prisons are indeed among them. The Notice on Further Strengthening the Management of the Confidentiality of the National Unified Examination clearly states that "prison printing houses that meet the confidentiality requirements for the printing of examination papers after examination may be issued a "State Secret Carrier Reproduction Permit" with a limited scope of permission, and the column of the scope of the license shall indicate the words 'printing of examination papers only'." "Therefore, as long as certain conditions are met, prisons can become printing units for high school examination papers.

In addition to prisons, units that undertake the task of printing college examination papers generally carry out fully closed management one month before the college entrance examination, and each workshop is equipped with a complete access control, monitoring, and anti-theft system, not only 24-hour security personnel are on duty in shifts, but even sewers will be installed with protective nets.

Workers who have direct contact with the test paper are also subject to closed management. The degree of management rigor is not much different from that of the proposition person. In order to prevent missing questions, all the garbage they produce must be shredded before it can be transported out of the printing unit. Similarly, they will not be able to regain their "freedom" until after the college entrance examination.

Real-time monitoring of the transportation process

After the printing of the high school examination papers, they are transported to the test centers in various regions, and as the only mobile link, the transportation process is the focus of the security of the high school examination papers.

If divided by level of secrecy, the high exam paper is classified as the highest level of "top secret". Therefore, the packed high school examination papers are usually escorted by a special service convoy, which includes both staff from the examination center and local police officers and armed police.

The itinerary of the special convoy is planned before departure, and all vehicles are equipped with satellite positioning devices, so that remote monitoring personnel can respond immediately if the vehicle deviates from the established route. At the same time, the inner and outer corners of each vehicle are installed with camera equipment to monitor the situation inside and outside the vehicle in real time, and all data will be transmitted to the command center in real time, and there are special personnel to remotely monitor the transportation process through video. At the same time, the surveillance video of the whole process will also be archived so that when there is a problem, it can be reviewed and look for possible omissions.

"Paperkeeper" and the test paper "eat and live together"

After arriving at each test center, the high school examination papers will be stored in a special examination paper security room, and the construction of the confidential room also has strict requirements. According to relevant regulations, the test paper security room must be located above the second floor of the building, the room must be a suite of steel concrete or brick structure, with anti-theft, fireproof, moisture-proof, anti-rat functions, equipped with iron doors, iron windows, iron cabinets, the number of iron cabinets must be able to meet the requirements of storing all test papers in different subjects. The outhouse of the suite is used for the living and living of the staff on duty, the inner room is used to store the examination papers, and security doors must be installed between the inner and outer rooms.

In the secret room of the examination papers, there are a group of "paper-keepers" and high-level examination papers that "eat and live together". There will be shifts between different "paper keepers", whether eating, washing or going to the toilet, the examination paper cannot leave the guard for 24 hours. In addition to the "guard" close guard, the confidential room and outside are also installed with electronic monitoring and infrared alarm devices, infrared alarm devices and 110 system networking, once the alarm is triggered, the relevant personnel can rush to the scene as quickly as possible.

To enter the exam paper security room, you usually have to go through at least three doors. Different keys are used between different doors and stored in different hands. That is, to enter the test paper secret room, at least three people must be present at the same time. It is the leakless security measures in every link that finally ensure the fair conduct of the college entrance examination.