In addition to the compulsory language and mathematics courses, candidates also need to choose from politics, history, geography, physics, chemistry, biology, technology, seven optional subjects, choose three as the college entrance examination optional subjects. How to choose the "7 optional 3" will determine which majors can be enrolled in the future, in other words, it is also a particularly important choice for the new senior students on their future direction.
In Hangzhou, some high schools have already launched a pre-selection for freshmen to choose subjects for the college entrance examination. After the midterm exams, such pre-selection will be carried out in more high schools in Hangzhou.
Traditional "science and chemistry" is the most popular
Early last month, the Affiliated High School of Hangzhou Normal University, all freshmen in the "college entrance examination subject selection intention" pre-selection. The summary results of the 384 valid questionnaires returned showed that of the 35 combinations, the students' choices covered 33 combinations, and the two "political, geographical and technological" and "scientific, geographical and technological" were vacant because of the lack of students' choices.
Of the 33 combinations, the traditional science combination of "Science, Chemistry and Biology" remained the most popular, with 28.9 percent of students choosing this combination. It was followed closely by the "science, chemistry and history" combination. Only 5.5 percent of students chose the traditional "politics, history and geography" combination.
If each subject is counted independently, 72.9 percent of students included chemistry among the three elective subjects, topping the list. Physics, history and biology were also chosen by 52.1 percent, 48.7 percent and 45.8 percent, ranking two, three and four. Technology was the least chosen subject, with only 13.3 percent of students choosing it.
At the same time, HNSU also asked parents of freshmen to do the same questionnaire. The results of the parent questionnaire and the student questionnaire were basically the same in general direction. Chemistry still ranked first among the seven subjects, followed by physics and biology. Of the three subjects in the traditional Literature Comprehensive Examination, the most parents chose History and the least Politics. And both students and parents coincidentally ranked technology at the bottom of the list.
Not only Hangzhou Normal University Affiliated High School, but also Zhejiang University Affiliated High School conducted the same survey last month for all 544 freshmen at the school. The results showed that the choices made by students at the two schools were also quite a bit **** the same.
Zhejiang University Affiliated High School freshmen appeared in the choice of 34 choices, "history, geography and technology" was vacant. Among them, the largest number of students chose chemistry and physics, accounting for 65.26%, 57.72%. Technology was chosen by only 18.38 percent of students, again coming in last.
In the "reason for choice" column, 67.35% of the students because of the discipline "has a strong interest"; that the discipline "has a greater choice of colleges and universities specialization The percentage of students who think that the discipline "has a greater choice of college majors" is 43.9%; the percentage of students who choose the discipline because of "good grades" is 38.27%; the percentage of students who feel that they are weaker in other disciplines and are "forced to choose" reaches 39.4%; the percentage of students who think that the discipline "has a stronger chance of success in the future" is 39.4%. The percentage of students who think that the subject "has stronger career competitiveness in the future" is 32.65%. In addition, influenced by subject teachers, class teachers, parents, other students, accounting for 12.38%, 1.5%, 9.01%, 4.69% respectively.
School curriculum in trouble
"There is still a discrepancy between students' choices and our original predictions." Ren Xuebao, principal of Hangzhou Normal University High School, said the school originally thought that those studying pure science and liberal arts accounted for a large percentage, but in reality they only accounted for 28.9 percent and 5.5 percent, while students who crossed arts and sciences accounted for 65.6 percent. The diversity of student choices also poses a challenge to the school curriculum, "the new college entrance examination system, the school may cancel the administrative class, the concept of grades will also be diluted, learning a subject may have different grades of students together. So how to cope with this? This requires schools to do a good job of categorizing and layering classroom teaching."Shentu Yongqing, principal of ZJUAS, said that this is an initial choice made by students based on their personal understanding of the subject and their own learning situation. Next, ZJUAS will continue to survey students according to the process of high school learning, to provide reference for students preparing for the new college entrance examination to plan their studies early. He also predicted that as students and parents better understand the college entrance examination enrollment policy and their own interest in subject level, the choice of subjects will be more rational.
The reporter also found in a recent interview with a number of high schools in Hangzhou that most of the new students have been put on the school's agenda for the "7-3" pre-selection. For example, Hangzhou 14th high school will be in the midterm exams for pre-selection survey, Hangzhou senior high school pre-selection survey will be conducted in December, and Hangzhou second high school will be the earliest at the end of the semester to arrange for pre-selection survey.
"Pre-selection is equal to prediction, which has a greater impact on the school's macro planning. Freshmen starting high school, have not yet taken the big test, may not be particularly aware of their own level of subjects in high school. But the work of pre-selection should definitely be carried out." Chen Jun, deputy director of the teaching department of Hangzhou No. 2 High School, explained.
Of course, there are some Hangzhou high schools that choose to do pre-selection after colleges and universities have come out with the subjects required for professional application. "Students' choices now are mainly based on their subject specialties, but after colleges and universities list the subjects required for professional application, students' choices may change once more."
Experts: students set goals not too high and too detailed
In fact, from the new college entrance examination reform program was introduced, for how to "7 choose 3" discussion, has not been eliminated heat.
In mid-October, the "new college entrance examination reform under the educational changes and big data comprehensive assessment" forum held in Hangzhou, Peking University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, the University of Science and Technology of China and other colleges and universities in charge of recruitment office and the person in charge of the province's high schools have communicated in this regard. For example, there is a mainstream view in Peking University, only limited to one optional subject. And the head of the recruitment office of the prestigious schools also generally believe that, if limited to one, science and technology majors must be examined in physics, liberal arts majors must be examined in history. This point of view and the initial choice of parents of students in Hangzhou, is also very convergent.
The relevant person in charge of the Provincial Education Examination Office also gave the new high school students and parents raised a few points of "7 choose 3" recommendations: "Students do not give themselves too high, too detailed performance targets, after understanding the characteristics of high school subjects, the use of 'exclusion method The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you're doing, and that you're able to make the best use of it.