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Gaokao reform removes English

The Ministry of Education has released a draft reform plan for gaokaothe national collegeentrance examinationwhich will be open for public opinion soonmaking it clear that English willnot be included in gaokao in the future.

The planwhich was released by the ministry on Fridaysaid English will not be a gaokao testsubject in the futureInsteadstudents can take English tests more than once each yearand onlythe highest score will be counted.

The change has been welcomed by many people.

Tang Shengchangan expert with the national education and examination steering committee,said the reform will offer students more chancesand exclude accidental factors in examinations.

"A one-time examination usually can't reflect a student's real leveland it's a kind of unfairness tostudents," he said. "But after several testsI thinkthe English level of students can be tested in amore accurate way."

Liu Jiaoan eighth-grader in Xi'anShaanxi provincesaid the reform is good news for students,and she has been looking forward to such a change.

"In the pastwe had only one chanceand if something unexpected happened during the testwedid not have a chance to make up for it.

"But now we needn't worry if we don't do well the first timebecause we have a second timeathird time and even more times to do better," she said.

The reform will be piloted in some provinces from 2014, and their experience will be summarizedand expanded in 2017. By 2020, a new testing and recruiting system will be formed andpromoted nationwideaccording to the plan.

Liu Liminvice-minister of the ministrysaid the advantage of the new policy is that students canchoose when and how often they take the tests according to their own needs.

"That is to saystudents do not have to study English extremely hard or spend so much timepreparing for the English test before gaokao," he said. "It will be a big relief for students."

As part of efforts to support the reformthe Beijing Municipal Committee of Education isconsidering reducing the difficulty of the city's English test from 2014.

Options included reducing the vocabulary item from 3,500 words to 3,080 in the gaokao of 2014,and holding two English tests for gaokao from 2016.

Howeversome still have concerns.

Wang Qingronga mother of an eighth-grader in FuzhouFujian provincesaid such a changemeans little if universities still enroll students only on the basis of scores.

"In my opinionif the enrollment system stays the samesuch a change in gaokao will makestudents keep taking English tests until they get a satisfactory score," she said. "Under suchcircumstancesI'm afraid it will affect the study of other subjectsor add to studentsworkloads."

Xiong Bingqivice-president of the 21st Century Education Research Instituteagreed withWang.

"The reform of the enrollment system is the core," he said. "To ease people's worriesanenrollment system not only based on examinations should be implemented."

Addressing such concernsthe ministry is looking at options to reform the enrollment system,such as introducing a multievaluation system that doesn't enroll students based only on their testperformances.


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