Chapter Seventy-Four: "Cheating in the College Entrance Examination"
While seeking the final decision from the higher-ups, the Ministry of Education is also trying to figure out why the candidates in the military sub-district have such a high pass rate.
In the first year of the resumption of the university entrance examination, the actual level of the vast majority of educated young candidates and factory workers was taken into account, and the examination was relatively not difficult. But this is not a special session for educated youth and worker candidates after all, which also includes a considerable number of fresh graduates and former graduates, but even for them, the pass rate of the college entrance examination is not so high, and there must be a reason for this.
Either the teaching level of the military sub-district exceeds that of the country, or the exam questions have been leaked!
Otherwise, from common sense, it doesn't make sense!
Saying that the level of education in military sub-districts is much higher than that in China, the Ministry of Education, and even the education departments and bureaus in various localities, will not admit that they will be killed, and this is a slap in the face. A group of teachers who have been away from their educational posts for many years, even if they have been teaching for half a year since they arrived in the military sub-district, the candidates' scores far exceed those of the students who have studied in junior high schools and high schools for six years in China.
Moreover, similar to the ultra-high passing rate of the entrance examination in the military sub-district, the passing rate of the college entrance examination in several counties and cities in the vicinity of the military sub-district, such as Ruili and Zhenkang, is also far above the average level of 4.8 percent in China, the highest in Zhenkang County has reached 24 percent, and the average passing rate of several other counties and cities is also about 10 percent.
It can be said that more than half of the more than 5,000 indicators in the entire Yunnan Province area have been rounded by these places!
Upon seeing the results, the investigators felt nothing but chills down their spines. Needless to say, this kind of result can only be the leakage of the exam questions.
This is a large-scale cheating!
Ever since there was such a thing as the imperial examination, the leakage of examination questions has occurred again and again. But every time the exam questions are leaked, it is also followed by a bloody storm.
In ancient imperial examinations, the people who were promoted were the future court officials and the foundation of the country. Leaking exam questions is tantamount to shaking the foundation of the dynasty, and any dynasty that still has control over the political situation will not tolerate this kind of thing.
In modern times, university education has replaced the imperial examination, and students can no longer directly become officials after graduation, and their status has declined compared with the ancient middle examination.
Yet these students, especially university students, remain the nation's most precious seeds. Although they will enter the grass-roots training after graduation, they will be cadres as soon as they enter, and they will be quickly promoted and reused after a few years of grass-roots training.
For possible cheating in the college entrance examination, the state has zero tolerance for this!
Soon after this possibility was raised, it immediately aroused the anger of the entire high-level and ordered an investigation to the end. It is also strictly ordered that no matter how high the level of the person involved is or how old the qualifications are, once it is found that there is indeed cheating, it will be taken down immediately, and there will be no mercy!
As a result, the entire education system was in a panic.
Start with self-examination.
The investigation starts from the source, down to the person who writes the test questions for each subject, the staff who copy the test questions, the custodians, the drivers, and even the cleaning staff, to the head of the teaching and research department, the director, and even the ministerial-level officials who have reviewed the test questions, all of them are examined by the inspection team sent by the higher departments, and explain whether the test questions have been leaked to the outside world and who they have talked to about relevant issues. Relevant contacts, including their relatives, have also been investigated again and again.
At the end of the general investigation of the capital's education system, it was indeed investigated and punished a few people responsible for violating discipline and rules who dared to defy the world's condemnation and reveal some examination questions to relatives and friends, but all of them confirmed that they had nothing to do with the ultra-high pass rate of several counties, cities, and military sub-districts in Yunnan.
Check the distribution channels of the exam questions again.
The Ministry of Education, which has completed the self-inspection work, is the first to breathe a sigh of relief, as long as the responsibility is not on them, the head will be saved. Then there are local violations, and the top wants to kill their heads, and they also kill their heads, and they have nothing to do with themselves.
A huge investigation team composed of discipline inspection, education, public security, external relations, and other ministries and commissions set out from the capital, without saying any greetings to the lower levels, and went straight to Yunnan without saying anything, preparing to kill them by surprise.
The first group of members of the investigation team took the plane, and as soon as they landed, they were picked up by the Public Security Department, which had been notified to cooperate with the investigation, and secretly entered the provincial department. Some of the personnel waited secretly, and the investigators of other groups took the police car of the provincial department, and with the cooperation of the public security of the provincial department, they went to Ruili, Zhenkang and other counties and cities non-stop.
After these groups of personnel confirmed by phone that they were in place one after another, all walks of life mobilized at the same time and immediately took over the provincial education department and the education bureaus of several counties and cities involved in the case. From the secretary of the education bureau to the specific clerks, all personnel were stopped from working, allowed to enter and leave, stayed honestly in their own offices, and were not allowed to talk to other people, and strictly prevented collusion. At short notice, one by one, they enter the investigators' offices and are subjected to individual review.
At the same time, follow-up investigators who arrived by express train also began to arrive in large numbers, taking over all key departments such as databases and archives from the provincial, municipal and county education departments at all levels.
Since the college entrance examination is divided into examination areas, and each locality prints, supervises, and marks the papers on its own, the investigation team has divided some personnel and jointly conducted investigations with the public security on printing houses and other affiliated enterprises, and even the printing machine pickers have to be questioned.
At the same time, cheating may also occur in the marking process, so a group of investigators specially dispatched opened the file, extracted all the test papers of candidates involved in the above-mentioned areas, and re-scored each test paper to carry out a comprehensive review.
The re-examination of the test papers involved nearly 100,000 candidates, which was a lot of work, but soon after it began, the investigators were taken by surprise.
Through the examination papers of several counties and cities such as the Military Division, Ruili, and Zhenkang, it was found that the candidates in these places have a very comprehensive grasp of the knowledge points, far beyond the domestic level!
You must know that after the movement began, classes were first suspended to make a revolution, and then although classes were resumed, the teaching order was always unstable. Subsequently, in order to cultivate popular and professional talents, the number of various quotations in textbooks continued to increase, while the relevant knowledge points continued to decline. In the later period, the compilation of textbooks was transferred from the Ministry of Education to the hands of the Revolutionary Committee, and a large number of them were deleted, and only a very small part of the content related to teaching needs remained, and most of the pages were filled with large paragraphs of quotations.
To sum up, it is "three machines and one pump" (physics) and "three crops and one pig" (biology)!
Many of the important knowledge points that were in textbooks more than ten years ago are not visible in current textbooks. So even fresh high school students can't learn much in three years, and it's not much different from messing around.
However, in these examination areas that are considered to be cheating in the college entrance examination this time, it is obvious from all the test papers that have been reviewed that these candidates have a very wide range of knowledge and are extremely systematic!
Many test takers don't know what to do in the face of the test questions, but from their half-crushed solution process, they can find that they have a clear direction to try, but due to objective reasons such as the foundation is not strong enough, many relevant formulas are memorized incorrectly, etc., so that they either do not complete the entire question solution, or give the wrong answer.
One thing can be determined is that these candidates know this kind of question and where to start and answer it!
Such a systematic knowledge mastery is extremely rare among candidates in the capital, but it is a common phenomenon among candidates in the above areas! It can be said that aside from those test papers that passed, even those exam papers that did not pass prove that they just don't have enough time, and many of the key points that should be mastered have no time to memorize deeply, so that they miss the heel, as long as they are given more time to review, the number of candidates who pass the entrance exam will double, or even several times!
From this point of view, this does not look like cheating......
The investigators who participated in the review quickly reported the suspicions to the top, and the investigators who were still tracking the leakage of the exam questions were suddenly colorless.
Could it be that the whole college entrance examination cheating incident turned out to be an oolong?
Everyone panicked, especially the investigators sent by the Ministry of Education. The so-called cheating in the college entrance examination was reported by them, which made the high-level angry and caused this earthquake. Who knows how to check and check, it is very likely that this is not cheating at all, but the level of candidates in these areas does exceed the national general standard.
Now it's in trouble.
It's a big deal, it's a big deal!
A college entrance examination cheating incident involving a wide range of ministries and commissions was jointly investigated, and it may have been an oolong incident, and their rash reporting of the results in the first place proved to be a complete dereliction of duty.
They do not believe that the level of examination in a remote area is so high, so they arbitrarily believe that people are cheating, and the root cause of this is to despise the education system in remote areas, and on the other hand, to shirk responsibility as soon as possible.
However, pushing and shoving, they found themselves more responsible!
What should I do now, I can't cover the lid, not to mention that the top is still staring and waiting for them to get results, even so many investigators in relevant parts will also send the news to the highest level, so that they can't cover the lid if they want to.
Sure enough, the day after the results of the examination papers were reported, the head of the investigation team and a deputy minister of education who led the team received a call from the capital. It was the familiar voice on the phone, who didn't scold them, but just asked: "So, the high pass rate of the exam in these places is not cheating, but the local candidates themselves are good learners?" ”
"This ......" Deputy Minister Bi Gong held the phone respectfully, sweat dripping down his forehead, but he didn't dare to wipe it, organized the vocabulary, and said tactfully, "The specific situation is still being further confirmed." At present, through the review, it is only confirmed that the candidates have prepared for the knowledge points of the test questions......"
The subtext is still more inclined to the leakage of test questions, and the candidates are prepared, but he doesn't dare to say it so hard.
"Then you have to check carefully, whose responsibility is whose responsibility is whose responsibility. If it is proved that the person is innocent, he must also do a good job of explaining it, and he cannot force the dirty water to splash on the person. If you are not right, how can you teach students well? The other party's voice was not harsh, relatively soft, but the deputy minister was so frightened that he was sweaty and said yes.
At this point, the personnel of the Ministry of Education within the investigation team did not want to investigate any further, for fear that the more they investigated, the heavier the responsibility would become. Trying to characterize this incident as cheating based on the evidence of the existing test papers, if it was not for the leakage of a large number of exam questions in advance, how could it be possible that all candidates knew the scope of the exam and came prepared?
But they were not the only ones in the investigation team, and soon the discipline inspection department got a thick stack of textbooks from the local education system under investigation.
These textbooks are completely different from those in China, and at a glance you can see that they are all new books, and you can't see any quotations on them. According to the feedback of some teachers, these textbooks are very well compiled, with knowledge points from shallow to deep, detailed arguments, and rigorous systems, which are very suitable for students at all levels, and fully grasp all knowledge points in high school.
Moreover, these teachers also took out a textbook for teachers to use. This book does not include all the content of the textbook, but it summarizes the knowledge points of each chapter and each subsection: which are the core knowledge that students must master, which are the key knowledge that should be mastered, which are the general knowledge points, and which are the general understanding of the content, with clear hierarchies, and clear prompts, how many class hours each knowledge point is taught, which is suitable for students to understand and skillfully use.
As long as the teacher follows this tutorial, he or she will be able to teach the students in a targeted manner, so as to maximize the efficiency of the lecture.
When the investigators retrieved the test papers and compared them with the textbooks and tutorial books, they confirmed that most of the test questions belonged to the general knowledge level indicated in the tutorial books. Only a few questions are beyond the scope of the knowledge points listed in the tutorial book, but they are also related to other knowledge points, and if you master these knowledge, it is reasonable to deduce the solution ideas.
Subsequently, they further learned that all these textbooks and tutorial books were transmitted from the military sub-district.
When the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination was announced nationwide, candidates from all provinces and cities were looking for suitable textbooks, and these counties and cities were no exception.
The person in charge of the local education system was worried, and suddenly remembered that in the early days, the military sub-district had printed a large number of junior and senior high school textbooks in the county printing house. They hurriedly found a sample book to take a look, and immediately applauded, so they immediately printed a large number of plates, trying their best to let local candidates have a copy.
In addition, the printing house also sent teaching tutorials for various subjects, which are more targeted than ordinary textbooks, and the local education system was overjoyed, and hurriedly reviewed it, and found that it could be used for local junior and senior high school teaching without any modifications.
After that, when the military sub-district sent a counseling team to help several surrounding counties and cities with pre-examination counseling, several other counties and cities shouted that there were no suitable teaching materials. After the county learned about it, it generously printed tens of thousands of sets of teaching materials and distributed them to various brother units.
As a result, this set of textbooks has become more and more widely disseminated.
Not only are the candidates using it, but the local teachers are also using it, and they have praised it after using it. At the same time, various factories and mines have also used this set of teaching materials and teaching guidance books as the designated teaching materials for factory-run schools and night schools, and promoted them on a large scale.
Later, this set of teaching materials was passed on by word of mouth and further spread to a wider area in the surrounding area. After the printing houses in various places got this set of books, they immediately worked overtime to print them, and distributed them when they printed a batch, and in this way, a large number of people were still chasing after them.
And the facts have also proved that this set of textbooks is really very good, basically summarizing the relevant knowledge points that should be taught to middle and high school students. As long as you have studied carefully according to this set of textbooks, even if it is because of the tight time and the lack of a solid foundation, you can calmly deal with it when facing the exam papers. Even if the answer is wrong, it is answered within the framework of the correct test question, but the correct answer is not obtained due to various objective reasons.
In addition, the investigators also confirmed that the difficulty of the questions in this exam was indeed low by comparing the teaching tutorials.
The low difficulty of the exam questions also makes it possible for more candidates who have carefully referred to the textbook to pass the exam. This is not to say that their level is much higher than that of other candidates in China, but that this set of textbooks is too well written.
This time, the pass rate of several counties and cities is super high, which is not a victory for individual students, but a victory for the system!
With an investigation report of tens of thousands of words, accompanied by a set of textbooks and tutorial books, the so-called "cheating in the college entrance examination" incident that is well known to the whole country has come to an end. Countless schools, teachers, students, and even educated youths and workers who are interested in taking the college entrance examination again next year have asked people to buy this book as a standard tutorial book.
Although the incident came to an end, whether this set of textbooks could be directly used as standard textbooks once again set off a new big debate that swept the country.