On the first day of the college entrance examination, that is, on July 7, Shexian County, Anhui Province suffered a flood disaster. In order to protect the safety of local candidates, the government decided to postpone the Chinese and math subjects of the college entrance examination until July 9, which was also agreed by the Ministry of Education. In fact, nationwide, only one county in Shexian County, Anhui Province has postponed the college entrance examination, and more than 2,000 candidates in Shexian County will use spare examination papers. As soon as the news came out, many people were not calm. Is the backup test paper the same as the original test paper? Will it affect the performance of candidates in Shexian County? Affect the fairness of the exam?
In response to this question, Shexian Education Bureau made a special answer. They said that the backup test papers for the college entrance examination were also put forward by the same group of experts, with the same difficulty coefficient and similar test specifications. Of course, for candidates in Shexian county, their papers are different from those in other places, and it is unfair regardless of the difficulty. After all, these two papers are different papers, just like the A and B papers in the final exam. Because each candidate's knowledge system is different, and he is good at it, maybe A paper can get 140, but B paper can only get 100, so of course it's unfair.
Furthermore, for the exam on July 7th, Shexian candidates have accepted this fact and generally adjusted to the best condition. Now the examination time is suddenly postponed to July 9, and many candidates have a psychological breakdown because they admit that they are more stressed than the average person. We know that if the pressure is too great, it will affect the performance of candidates, and some candidates may not perform well in the exam. In a word, the use of spare papers in Shexian County, Anhui Province has a certain influence on the candidates here. Of course, this influence is limited. For those who have good academic performance, the impact is not great, but for candidates who have not mastered the basic knowledge, the impact will be even greater.
In fact, there have been cases where the college entrance examination has been postponed before. For example, in 2003, due to the theft of college entrance examination papers, the Ministry of Education decided that all candidates in the country should use backup papers. As a result, this year's mathematics has become a nightmare for national candidates. Because the difficulty coefficient is too large, many candidates did not do well in the exam, and many candidates cried as soon as they walked out of the examination room. For example, in 2006, a major flood occurred in Jian 'ou City, Fujian Province, and the college entrance examination center was flooded and could not be used. The local education bureau had to make a decision to postpone the college entrance examination. After the extension, local candidates also adopted the spare B volume. Finally, due to the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, the college entrance examination in Sichuan and Gansu provinces was postponed to July 3, 4 and 5, and the college entrance examination papers were backed up. Due to the influence of too many people, the Ministry of Education also listed the non-extended areas and the extended areas respectively, and then "tested separately, planned separately, crossed separately and admitted at the same time" in these two areas.