Four new points in university and college admissions in 2008

In order to promptly provide necessary information to candidates before entering the university and college entrance exam, on March 17, the Ministry of Education and Training officially released the book.Things to know about university and college admissions in 2008.

Notably, there are 95 schools (38 universities, 57 colleges) that do not organize exams with nearly 100,000 admission quotas based on the results of entrance exams to other universities and colleges or registration for the exam according to the common exam questions of the Ministry of Education and Training. In this year's university and college entrance exams, there are four new points.

Firstly, candidates taking the D block exam will be given two additional foreign language exams: German and Japanese, both of which will be multiple choice.

Second, this year, the Ministry of Education and Training will issue questions for colleges to organize multiple-choice and essay exams (except for aptitude subjects) instead of only issuing questions for four multiple-choice subjects like last year's exam.

Third, the results of the college entrance exam according to the common exam questions are used for admission to other colleges with the same exam block.

Fourth, the exam structure has two parts, including a general exam for all candidates and a separate exam according to the pilot and non-separated high school programs. Any candidate who takes both separate exams will have their exam considered illegal and only the general exam will be graded.

In addition, in the University and College Admission Regulations recently issued by the Ministry of Education and Training, there is no provision that candidates who mark incorrectly will have their scores deducted. The regulation also stipulates that exam examiners do not automatically round up exam scores.

Rounding of scores is done automatically by the computer according to the principle: If the total score of three subjects has an odd score of less than 0.5 points, it is rounded to 0.5 points. If the total score of three subjects has an odd score of 0.75 points, it is rounded to one point (different from before, the regulations stipulate rounding of scores for each subject).

The Ministry of Education and Training said: Candidates in the 2008 International Olympic team who have graduated from high school will be admitted directly to university. If they have not graduated from high school, they will be reserved after graduation. Candidates who have won prizes in sports, talents, and arts, the time to be counted for priority is no more than four years, from the date of winning the prize to the date of the entrance exam...

For candidates who won prizes in the 2008 national exam for excellent students in grade 12 high school, after taking the regular university and college entrance exam according to the common exam questions of the Ministry, with exam results from the floor score or higher and no subject with a score of 0, universities and colleges will give priority to consider admission. Candidates registering for direct admission must submit their application to the Department of Education and Training before June 18 and universities and colleges will announce the direct admission results before June 30.

According to the Ministry of Education and Training, although the basic stability of the high school graduation and high school supplementary exams remains the same as last year, in the 2008 exam, the high school graduation exam regulations have new points. The basic new point of the new high school graduation exam regulations issued on March 6 is that they are highly consistent, applied to both high school graduation and high school supplementary exams. This is the basis for the industry to move towards implementing only one national high school exam.

Another new point is that the regulations stipulate the responsibilities of universities, academies, colleges, and vocational training institutions in mobilizing staff and lecturers to participate in all stages of the high school graduation exam. This team will perform two basic tasks: participating in authorized inspection teams and directly supervising in the examination rooms. During the exam, each examination room will arrange at least one exam session with one invigilator who is a staff or lecturer from a university, college, or vocational training institution. This is essentially a rehearsal step for the industry and examination councils to prepare for the policy of having only one national high school exam. This year, the number of inspectors mobilized has increased compared to last year. Each examination site has at least two inspectors, each inspector supervises seven examination rooms. The stages of re-examination and grading will also have a reasonable number of professional inspectors.

This year, the first year the industry applies a common graduation exam regulation, high school supplementary candidates will still take separate exams (due to studying the regular education program) without taking the foreign language exam. The exam for four multiple-choice subjects will include many questions, spread throughout the program, without a focus for each subject, students need to learn the entire content of the subject, avoid "memorizing" and "memorizing".

The Ministry of Education and Training also specifies more clearly the authority and responsibility of each examination stage to have appropriate disciplinary sanctions.

(According to People)