The 2023 national college entrance examination kicked off, and the proposition highlighted comprehensive literacy and ability examination

Protect the safety of the college entrance examination and set sail with dreams

Reporter Zhao Wanna and Wu Yue

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The college entrance examination touches the hearts of hundreds of millions of people. June 6 is the first day of the national college entrance examination, and this year's college entrance examination has 7.1291 million applicants, with a total of 7726,34 test centers, 5,2 general examination rooms, and 6,<> spare examination rooms. In order to escort the students to the college entrance examination safely, many departments went all out. Judging from the trend of propositions, this year's college entrance examination pays more attention to enhancing the function of soul casting and educating people, highlighting comprehensive literacy and ability examination, and promoting the organic connection of teaching, learning and examination.

June 6, the first day of the national college entrance examination. This year is the first college entrance examination after the implementation of the new crown epidemic "Class B and B tube", and the number of college entrance examination applicants nationwide reached 7.1291 million, setting a new record high.

What is the situation of the group test and proposition of this year's college entrance examination? The reporter interviewed the heads of the Education Examination Institute of the Ministry of Education, experts and front-line teachers.

Take multiple measures to escort the safe college entrance examination

The reporter learned that in 2023, the national college entrance examination will set up 7726,34 examination centers, 5,2 general examination rooms, 6,101 spare examination rooms, and arrange 3.<> million invigilators. The Ministry of Education, together with relevant departments, has guided all localities to take a series of solid and effective measures to go all out to ensure a safe 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 papers, the multi-control of one post and joint defense of human technology are strictly implemented in all links such as test paper ordering, printing, transportation, storage, and distribution, especially in the operation of test papers, the implementation of video surveillance and trajectory tracking without dead angles throughout the process to strengthen seamless links.

It is reported that the Ministry of Education, together with public security, internet information and other departments, jointly carried out special actions to combat cheating, and worked with the industry and information technology departments to strengthen the governance of the electromagnetic environment around the test center, focusing on cracking down on illegal acts of using mobile phones and other radio equipment to carry out test cheating. In addition, guide all localities to strengthen the standardized management of off-campus training institutions' behaviors related to the college entrance examination, and severely crack down on illegal behaviors such as false publicity, illegal training, organizing fraud or cheating, and disrupting the order of examination admissions.

In terms of strengthening the service of candidates, in order to coordinate and do a good job in examination epidemic prevention, the Ministry of Education, together with the National Disease Control Administration and other departments, accurately implemented the requirements of the "Class B and B management" measures, improved the plan plan, and clearly formulated 10 detailed requirements such as "setting up examination rooms according to different candidates' situations" and "preparing sufficient spare examination rooms and staff", and guiding all localities to do a good job in examination epidemic prevention work in accordance with local conditions and scientifically and accurately.

At the same time, attention is paid to providing reasonable accommodation for candidates with disabilities to participate in the college entrance examination. The Ministry of Education has specially produced Braille papers for blind candidates in many provinces, and has guided more than 1,<> disabled candidates in various localities. In addition, in conjunction with relevant departments, we will deploy and carry out the college entrance examination escort action, guide all localities to further optimize examination services, carefully ensure the comprehensive protection of candidates' transportation, accommodation, hygiene, personal safety and other aspects, 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 view of natural disasters and other public emergencies that may occur during this year's examination, all localities and departments have further improved emergency plans, refined work measures, and strengthened simulation drills to ensure that the plan is carried out first, there is no chaos, and effective response. The Ministry of Education and all localities have dispatched capable forces to set up emergency teams and stand by 24 hours a day to ensure that emergencies can be rushed to the scene as soon as possible and dealt with quickly.

Pay attention to enhancing the function of soul casting and education

"The proposition of the 2023 college entrance examination fully implements the party's education policy, implements the fundamental task of cultivating virtue and cultivating people, organically integrates the spirit of the <>th National Congress of the Party in the test questions, guides students' all-round development of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor, helps improve the quality of independent cultivation of talents, and serves the training and selection of top-notch innovative talents." The head of the Education Examination Institute of the Ministry of Education said. According to reports, the Education Examination Institute of the Ministry of Education ordered the national A paper and the national B paper for use in the provinces with the old curriculum standard, and the new course standard I and the new course standard II for the use of the new curriculum standard provinces.

Focusing on enhancing the function of soul casting and educating people is one of the characteristics of the proposition of the college entrance examination in 2023. According to reports, taking the Chinese test as an example, the two materials of the national B-volume essay test and the new curriculum standard volume II. Modern Reading I. material <> "On Investigation and Research" have actively guided young people to absorb ideological strength and strengthen their ideals and beliefs.

The national language test questions of the college entrance examination also give full play to the advantages of the discipline, carefully select materials that embody the concepts of moral education, aesthetic education, physical education and labor education, and pay attention to promoting the spirit of labor and educating people's hearts. The reading of literary texts in the first volume of the country uses Ba Jin's prose "Mechanical Poems - One of the Essays on the Journey", which shapes the image of workers from a unique perspective, praises labor, and guides candidates to understand the hard work of workers.

How to select top-notch innovative talents through the college entrance examination? It is understood that this year's college entrance examination proposition reflects the basic, comprehensive, applied and innovative.

"This year's college entrance examination mathematics national paper proposition comprehensively examines the core literacy of mathematics, focusing on the important role of mathematics in talent selection." Experts introduced that the 2023 college entrance examination mathematics national paper gives full play to the role of basic disciplines, highlights literacy and ability examination, focuses on logical reasoning literacy, identifies thinking quality, shows thinking process, and gives candidates a stage and space to play.

"Emphasize rational thinking and pay attention to critical examination", this is Zhang Yunjia, a teacher at Henan Experimental Middle School, on this year's college entrance examination language test questions. It is reported that the questions in this year's college entrance examination Chinese national paper reflect the examination of scientific thinking. For example, through popular science articles with both literary quality and beauty, candidates are stimulated to be curious, imaginative and inquisitive; Examine the ability to reason, critique and discover in speculative reading; In the reading of scientific papers and treatises, the thinking methods such as combing and exploring, summarizing and summarizing, and hypothesis verification are examined, so as to cultivate a realistic and realistic attitude.

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 propositions of the 2023 college entrance examination focus on conforming to the actual academic situation and teaching situation, and connect with the high school curriculum standards to promote the organic connection of teaching, learning and examination. Taking the national college entrance examination mathematics as an example, the proposition highlights the in-depth understanding and flexible mastery of basic knowledge and basic concepts, and pays attention to the comprehensive application ability of subject knowledge.

"The 2023 Gaokao Chinese National Paper uses a variety of new question types, and there are also differences in the same module of different papers. This move sends a clear signal: improving scores depends on the accumulation of knowledge and the improvement of competency literacy. The head of the Education Examination Institute of the Ministry of Education said.

For example, the national A volume writing test "People, Technology, Time", the speculative characteristics of the material are obvious; The National B-volume Writing Test "One Flower Alone is Not Spring" uses two related and tense materials; The new course standard I writing question "The Power of Stories", the material is organized around a specific topic; The new course standard II writing question "Youth Own Space" is a combination of reading and writing questions, as a newly launched question type, officially used in the national college entrance examination paper for the first time.

"On the one hand, the test questions focus on assessing knowledge, and on the other hand, they pay more attention to assessing students' language ability, such as reading comprehension, expression ability, word and sentence selection ability, etc." Professor Lu Jianming of Peking University believes that the national language test questions play a positive guiding role in language education, and students should be guided to read more books and read well in the future.

Zheng Guihua, a professor at Shanghai Normal University, said that through the college entrance examination, students not only received the examination of knowledge, but also gained spiritual growth, which helped to better cultivate morality and cultivate people. (People's Daily)