Very difficult. The difficulty of the college entrance examination in Shanghai in 2003 can be said to be very difficult The college entrance examination in 2003 is also recognized as the most difficult one after the college entrance examination reform. How difficult was the college entrance examination in 2003? In fact, just look at the scores of candidates in that year and you will have a general idea. In the college entrance examination in 2003, the national average score of mathematics was less than 50, which was far from other years. Therefore, only those scholars can get 80 points in the math exam. In 2003, besides math problems, the college entrance examination was also very difficult. The difficulty of comprehensive management has improved a lot, and the comprehensive literature has tested a lot of unpopular knowledge, which makes the candidates somewhat unprepared. The reason why the college entrance examination in 2003 was so difficult was that someone stole the college entrance examination paper before it. In order to ensure the fairness of the college entrance examination, the state temporarily started to back up the examination papers, but the difficulty of backing up the examination papers was not controlled at that time, which led to the difficulty of backing up the examination papers far exceeding the normal college entrance examination papers. It was also after this year that the country changed the mode of writing papers, and completed formal papers and backup papers by randomly selecting topics.