2019 ingenious keywords： the college entrance examination admission rate is over 80%, and the physical status is improved.
For a long time, the college entrance examination has been an important topic of concern to all students and parents. Nowadays, the college entrance examination enrollment in 2019 has entered the final stage of volunteering. So, what is the development trend of the college entrance examination in 2019?
Recently, China Education Online released the "Report on 2019" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"), showing that the number of applicants for the college entrance examination in 2019 exceeded 10 million, and the actual admission rate of the national college entrance examination in 2018 reached 81.13%, with some areas exceeding 90%. At the same time, with the deepening of the reform process of college entrance examination, the Ministry of Education has standardized special types of enrollment, tightened the policy of independent enrollment, and some colleges and universities plan to reduce their enrollment by over 60%.
The number of applicants for the college entrance examination exceeded 10 million, and the actual admission rate exceeded 80%
In 2019, the number of applicants for the college entrance examination returned to the order of 10 million again after 10 years.
According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Education, the number of applicants for the national college entrance examination in 2019 was 10.31 million, once again exceeding 10 million, setting a record high since 2010. However, since 2007, the actual admission rate of college entrance examination has been on the rise.
According to the Report, the actual admission rate of college entrance examination exceeded 80% in 2017, which also means that most college entrance examination students have the opportunity to receive higher education. In 2018, there were 7,909,900 college students enrolled nationwide, an increase of 3.87% over the previous year, and the actual admission rate of college entrance examination reached 81.13%. Although the actual admission rate of college entrance examination in some areas has declined slightly, it still remains at a high level. In addition, the actual admission rate of college entrance examination in some areas exceeds 90%, such as Hebei and Jiangsu.
It is worth noting that in recent years, the unfinished enrollment plan in some areas is more prominent. According to the "Report", taking Jiangsu and Hebei as examples, the number of unfinished enrollment plans in Jiangsu reached 42,000 in 2016, and it was controlled at around 20,000 in 2017 and 2018; The number of people who did not complete the enrollment plan in Hebei reached 28,000 in 2014, but it has dropped back to 0.75 million in 2017.
With the continuous expansion of the scale of higher education, higher education will enter the stage of popularization. According to the Report, China has built the largest higher education system in the world, and the gross enrollment rate of higher education has increased rapidly, which is about to enter the stage of popularization. In 1978, the gross enrollment rate of higher education was only 1.55%, and in 2002, it increased to 15% in just 24 years, from the elite stage to the popular stage.
The policy of special enrollment in colleges and universities is tightening
With the deepening of the reform process of college entrance examination, the Ministry of Education has made efforts to promote fair and scientific talent selection, and standardized special types of enrollment.
Many people call 2019 the "strictest" year in the history of independent enrollment. The Ministry of Education has made 10 strict requirements for independent enrollment, one of which is fairness and justice, and strictly controlling the enrollment scale.
According to the Report, in previous years’ independent enrollment, the actual enrollment of most colleges and universities was lower than the enrollment plan. In 2018, among the 79 self-enrollment colleges and universities that publicized the enrollment information, 76 colleges and universities did not complete the self-enrollment plan, with a total vacancy of more than 5,200. Through the data sampling of 70 colleges and universities that carry out independent enrollment, only two colleges and universities have the same plans as last year, and the rest have reduced their plans. Among them, the independent enrollment plans of 13 schools have been reduced by 60%, and Shanghai University has been reduced by 80%.
In addition, in 2019, the requirements for independent enrollment in colleges and universities generally increased. According to the Report, the minimum requirements for independent enrollment in Tsinghua and Peking University in 2019 have been significantly improved, and the scope of target students has been narrowed, and the maximum preferential margin has also dropped from 60 points in 2018 to 20 points. Physical fitness test has become a "standard" for independent enrollment assessment in colleges and universities. Twenty-six colleges and universities clearly stipulate in their independent enrollment brochures that failing to participate in the physical examination or failing to pass the physical examination results will affect the candidates’ independent enrollment qualifications.
With the deepening of the college entrance examination reform, the pilot work of comprehensive evaluation reform is gradually launched, the scope is constantly expanding, and the number of students enrolled is also rising. According to incomplete statistics in the Report, in 2019, a total of 99 colleges and universities across the country conducted comprehensive evaluation enrollment pilots, among which 14 colleges and universities conducted comprehensive evaluation enrollment for multiple regions, and the remaining 85 colleges and universities conducted comprehensive evaluation enrollment in their provinces.
It is worth noting that comprehensive evaluation has become the main enrollment method of individual colleges and universities. According to statistics, in 2018, among the nine ministries and commissions and universities from other provinces that implemented the "Trinity" comprehensive evaluation of enrollment in Zhejiang, the total number of "Trinity" enrollment plans of eight universities except Zhejiang University was 1,014, and the total number of unified enrollment plans of these eight universities was only 78.
Nowadays, the threshold for sending students is further improved. The "Report" pointed out that since 2014, the number of students who have been admitted to the country has started to slim down significantly, and it has been declining for five consecutive years; The number of students who walked in decreased from 6,759 in 2013 to 2,091 in 2018 (excluding heroic children and retired athletes). The number of colleges and universities that recruit students who are recommended to walk has also decreased to 78 in 2018.
The reform of college entrance examination has been promoted to the central and western regions, and its physical status has risen.
In April 2019, the third batch of college entrance examination reform plans for eight provinces and cities were finally announced. The scope of this pilot project has been further expanded to the central and western regions. According to the "Report", from the perspective of the number of applicants, the total number of candidates in the six provinces and cities started before, except Shandong and Zhejiang, is relatively small. The provinces and cities started this time are basically big provinces for college entrance examination, and the number of candidates is huge.
It is understood that the third batch of college entrance examination reform programs in eight provinces and cities is different from the previous six provinces and cities. The subject selection mode has changed from "3+3" to "3+1+2", and physics and history are the first choice subjects, so one must be selected; When enrolling students, plan, underline, file and enroll separately according to physical and historical categories. This move emphasizes the basic position of physics and history, and is expected to solve the problem of the decline in the number of physics candidates during the implementation of the college entrance examination reform plan in other provinces.
In this regard, the "Report" analysis pointed out that students who choose physics subjects will have more choices and guide more students to choose physics.
According to the Report, the six provinces and cities that initiated the reform of college entrance examination have announced the requirements for the selected subjects of college enrollment majors in 2020. Among them, the number of majors requiring required physics has increased significantly. Take the requirements of major selection in 2020 in 40 local undergraduate colleges in Shanghai as an example. A total of 558 majors involve the requirements of taking physics exams, among which 380 majors must choose physics, while only 65 majors must choose physics in 2017.
Based on the basic position of physics in scientific research, high-level universities often pay more attention to physics. By analyzing the top 10 universities in China, namely, the Nine Schools Alliance (C9) and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Report found that 7 universities required physics majors to account for more than 50%. Among them, physics is required for all majors in China University of Science and Technology, and the proportions of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin Institute of Technology, Xi ‘an Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University, Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiaotong University are 76.92%, 74%, 72.72%, 72.2%, 60% and 51.16% respectively.
China Youth Daily China Youth Network reporter Sara Ye