College entrance examination is literally the most important exam in China. The exam takes place on June 7th and 8th every year all over the country, and millions of students will participant in. Besides the exams of Chinese, Mathematics and English, each candidate must choose another exam between arts comprehensive and science comprehensive which represent the arts major and science major in college respectively. The exam paper also has many versions, among which the most common one is the national version, but some provinces will produce their own versions. Those versions differ in difficulty, contents and total scores. The scores of students will be ranked according to their paper versions, and each college will set its own “admission line” based on the overall scoring condition of each version. Those whose scores are higher than the “admission line” will be enrolled. College Entrance Examination is the most mainstream method for selecting students who will attend university. It is true that the College Entrance Examination is widely applied in China and it has been used for decades, but this does nott mean this exam system is perfect. In fact, the College Entrance Exam does have many disadvantages. The drawbacks of the College Entrance Examination are that it is unfair, it has bad influences on the students, and it is not an efficient way to select talented students. However, although the Ministry of Education claims this is a fair exam, it is not as fair as it seems. First of all, the exam regionalizes the distribution of the educational resources; it gives students from certain regions advantages because the difficulty of each version of paper is different. For example, the version of Beijing and Shanghai is cons... ... middle of paper ... ... although the exam system is tough, students can be more disciplined while undergoing such educational process. But sadly, this is not the truth. According to Jaime FlorCruz, a journalist of CNN, “In the past few years, there have been well-publicized reports of attempted cheating, and police have arrested 64 people suspected of ‘selling high tech devices to help students cheat’” (CNN). Given the discussion above, it becomes clear that the College Entrance Examination does have some drawbacks. If the Ministry of Education can make some changes, the exam will certainly become better. For instance, they can unify the exam around the nation, make the exam less competitive, focus the exam more on self-thinking, and add subject tests. In this way, the exam will become fairer, have more positive impact on students, and provide universities with more useful information.
Since this test has been devised, the number one question everybody is asking is, “ isn’t it unfair to base a student’s entire future on one test, when he or she simply could have had a bad day when taking the test”? The president Kirk T. Schroder of the Virginia Board of Education, answer this question by saying, “First of all, these tests are untimed, so no student is under arbitrary time pressure in taking the test.
... a tedious process, but the change can have immense, positive effects for the future college student. The ACT and SAT that supposedly measure a student's learning potential through multiple-choice questions should be replaced by a test of a student's desire to learn determined through the analysis of essays, recommendation letters, and school or community involvement. This change can result in a more academically motivated freshman class. Standardized testing in its current form does not accurately measure most students' learning potential. It does not allow for diversity and creates a huge hurdle for many potential academic achievers. An adjustment to a diverse, open testing format of the ACT or SAT and a stress on the student's other academic accomplishments can accurately measure the student's desire to learn, therefore measuring the student's learning potential.
Community colleges and universities all belong to higher education, but actually they do not have the same requirements for their students. Peter Sacks is a college teacher. With Sacks’ teaching experiences, he believes that “nobody in the system had much of a stake in shoring up educational standards” which shows his dissatisfied about the current education system. Sacks thinks higher education should only be provided to students who can do excellent job on studying. However, only a few universities hold their applicants to this high requirement. Indeed, the phenomenon that Sacks finds is correct, many community colleges and universities have low requirements for students, but Sacks does not see the good part of this low requirements. If higher education includes different requirements, more people will be able to accept better education than high school, and this will be helpful for themselves and society.
... turned one of the Chinese literati temple into a table tennis area (Sommer 1995, 19). During modern period, some universities utilize the Imperial Exams as they had hundreds of years ago so the traditional Chinese ways apply to modern society (Hayhoe 2011, 98).
Necessary funding for schools consistently rears its ‘ugly head’ and these exams prove to be very expensive and I believe, very much a waste of money. The money could be better spent on school materials like books, computers, and other necessary supplies. The allocated
Since more and more students apply to college, the college admission process gets more competitive. Cook expresses that both American and international applicants increases, and the increase of the applicants lead universities to have lower acceptance rate than before. Furthermore, because of there are data about top rank university on the media, too many students apply for the top private universities. Therefore,
Applying to college in the United States of America can be a long process consisting of many requirements. College admission requirements have been changing for centuries “in order to ensure that the full range of talent that an institution is capable of developing is properly represented in the student body” according to Andrew Beale in his article “The Evolution of College Admission Requirements.” During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries admission was granted based on ones “ability to read and translate Latin and Greek.” By the time the 1950s surfaced, there was an increase in standardized exams which soon adopted environmental and nonintellectual factors by the 1960s, Beale writes. As we know, there should be a fair playing field
Thirdly, college selection systems are designed to admit most students on the basis of what they know already (after all, the purpose of high school is to prepare you for college). If the selection system was actually accurate or efficient, they would have chosen students who already knew the material that was required, thus not needing to take
With the general acknowledgement of today’s society, vast changes are witnessed by time, following many interesting things attracting the public’s attentions, especially the controversial questions and topics about the college education. Some people think that college education is necessary for the high school graduates. It helps them build an integrated education system and teach them all the useful knowledge and skills so that these teenagers can get a coming bright future. On the other hand, other opponents claim that college education is not worth its cost because it truly brings many college graduates a huge amount of loans and debts, even some of them can’t get their dreaming jobs, so college
The traditional high school A-F grading system no longer reflects an accurate measurement of student success. Providing a new system where grades are measured by the rank of the student in the class will provide a system more honest than before, it will benefit students and prospective colleges. Changing the grading scale to a system where students are ranked from a curve based off the total percentage of points potentially earned in the course.
The process of preparing for college is an arduous process. College is an instrument used to have a successful life. However, getting into college is difficult. The competition for college admittance is extremely high. Most students do not take the necessary actions to ensure their admittance. Consequently, many students do not get attend their ideal college. Therefore, I have taken steps to make certain that I attend the college of my choice, By taking care of my class ranking, actively participating in school functions, and researching my intended degree, I have set myself up to attend the college of my choice.
There is added pressure to schools to get better scores which adds pressure to the educators and the students. The added pressure can cause health problems with the students or the educators. If health problem come from the stress of the tests it could negatively affect the student’s ability to learn (Pros and Cons, 2013). The test itself is a problem as well. The test is supposed to be unbiased based on the grade level but in most cases the test is not. As much as they try...
There are so many ways that students use technology to cheat and so many devices that they use to accomplish this unethical behavior. The many different things that are commonly used in today’s society to make our life easier, but it is used in the wrong way are mostly small hand-held devices. Such things are cell phones, digital camera, PDA’s and lap-tops. These items are so high tech that they are able to store large amount of data that can be utilized to gather information to be used in assignments, exams and homework in the ways of cheating. Rather than worry about study for the test, students simply break into database and change their final grade.
University Entrance Examinations, which is the exam that students must pass with higher score than norm in order to get accepted into universities and colleges, is most important exam to determine students’ future. Each year on July 4th to 10th, in Vietnam gets busier. Candidates and their parents will across country to the two biggest cities: Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City for the most important exam. Some people think the Entrance Exam must be compulsory for people whom interested in education while others think the Entrance College should be cancel from education systems.
...ions in which cheating is common, they face problems in the job or college search. Since many students with high marks from the institution prove uninformed in their field, employers and admissions committee are unable to verify which students do not know the information, and those who know the information. Therefore, they will have a negative effect of any student from that particular institution.