As an examination enrollment system, senior high school entrance examination has its historical and practical rationality. Historically, the senior high school entrance examination was a policy to solve the problem of junior high school graduates' further education after the founding of New China. At that time, due to the limited number of high school degrees, the number of junior high school graduates far exceeded the high school enrollment plan, and it was necessary to determine the qualifications for further studies through certain selection methods.
In reality, the senior high school entrance examination is a kind of diversion and selection to ensure the fairness and quality of education. Because of China's large population, great regional differences and unbalanced educational resources, there are great differences in high schools of different regions, types and levels.
First, high school enrollment is difficult to be fair and just.
If students are admitted according to junior high school grades or comprehensive quality evaluation, they may be influenced by junior high school level, teachers' evaluation criteria, students' cheating and other factors, resulting in unfair admission results. If students are admitted by lottery or lottery, it may harm the interests of outstanding students and is not conducive to cultivating talents.
Second, the quality of high school education is difficult to guarantee.
If the senior high school entrance examination is cancelled, junior high school graduates will not be able to choose their own high school and major according to their interests, specialties and abilities, which may lead to problems such as decreased learning motivation, difficulty in adapting and rising dropout rate. At the same time, high schools will also face difficulties such as uneven level of students, adjustment of teaching difficulty and increased pressure on teachers, which will affect the quality of education.
Third, it is difficult for high school graduates to guarantee higher education.
If the senior high school entrance examination is cancelled, junior high school graduates will not know the difference between ordinary high schools and vocational high schools, which may lead to over-enrollment of ordinary high schools and insufficient enrollment of vocational high schools. This is not conducive to cultivating technical and skilled talents to meet the needs of society, nor to improving the enrollment rate and employment rate of ordinary high school graduates.
How to alleviate the stress and anxiety caused by the senior high school entrance examination
First, strengthen the reform of the senior high school entrance examination and optimize the content and methods of the senior high school entrance examination.
The reform of senior high school entrance examination should be oriented to quality education, pay attention to examining students' core literacy, comprehensive ability and innovative spirit, and reduce rote learning and mechanical training. The reform of the senior high school entrance examination should be based on the principle of educational equity, and the difficulty and discrimination of the examination should be set reasonably to ensure that every student has the opportunity to show himself.
Second, improve the high school enrollment system and broaden the choice space of high schools.
The characteristics of high school enrollment system should be classified guidance. According to the characteristics and requirements of different types, levels and directions of high schools, corresponding enrollment policies and admission standards should be formulated to guide students to make reasonable choices according to their own conditions.
High school enrollment system should be based on multiple admissions. In addition to referring to the results of the senior high school entrance examination, students' comprehensive quality, hobbies, willingness to volunteer and other factors should be fully considered to achieve diversified, personalized and humanized admission.
Third, increase investment in education and improve the quality of education.
Education investment should aim at balanced development, increase support for compulsory education and ordinary high school education in rural, remote and poverty-stricken areas, narrow the educational gap between urban and rural areas, regions and schools, and promote educational equity.
Education investment should focus on improving quality and efficiency, improving school conditions, improving teachers' treatment level, improving teachers' professional quality, optimizing curriculum, enriching teaching methods, innovating evaluation methods and improving education quality.