Fars News Agency – Department of Education: Since the new entrance exam resolution of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution has been approved and the impact of the GPA in the entrance exam is to be determined by 40% from next year, a number of entrance exam candidates, especially the 12th graders, have complained about this ordinance and believe that the necessary infrastructure to hold the exams There is no final.
The issue of cheating by some students in the final exams is another issue that the candidates point to and say that this issue causes justice not to be established; To answer these questions, we talked to Mohsen Zarei, the head of the educational quality monitoring center of the Ministry of Education.
Zarei mentioned some things in this interview:
– More than 60% and sometimes in some regions, 70% of entrance exams are conducted with education and training.
– One case of fraud is too many
– Students should not engage in cheating
– Ranks 1 to 10 in this year’s exam, none of them scored 20 in their courses in the final exam.
** More than 60% of the entrance examination is with education
* Fars: One of the complaints of entrance exam candidates is that education does not have the necessary infrastructure to hold final exams. What is the response of education to these volunteers?
Currently, education and training cooperates with the assessment organization in the matter of holding entrance exams, and more than 60% and sometimes 70% of entrance exams are conducted with education and training. That is, apart from holding exams in education and training with a history of several years, the main burden of holding nationwide exams and entrance exams is also on the responsibility of education and training, and it has been proven that this ability exists in education and training in a structural way. Also, education has the possibility of holding exams even in villages.
* Fars: Candidates also complain about cheating in the final exams and believe that cheating makes the final exams unfair.
With a mechanism that can be said to be part of it is new and part of it has already been implemented for several years, it has been tried to hold fair exams. Question designers do the work of designing questions in the quarantine space. The question design in quarantine is almost not similar in other tests, that is, it is not done in this way in other places.
Besides, we also get help from the question bank. Designers are in complete quarantine from the start to the end of the test hour. The design of the questions that is done, the electronic sending of the questions is encrypted as a file, and the password of the questions is sent to the implementation area five minutes before the start of the exam, and they receive it there in the quarantine space.
In the implementation quarantine, after multiplying the questions, they are placed inside the envelope and sealed and given to the examination area. At the beginning of the meeting, the envelope of questions is opened in front of the students and given to them.
** One case of fraud is too much
* Fars: How do some students cheat?
There is also this issue in the discussion of publishing questions in the entrance examination; That is, this issue is for both exams and entrance exams; Publication of questions is by electronic devices that networks promote and make available to students. That is, the volunteers are encouraged to receive these devices and the space for publishing questions may occur.
One case of fraud is too many and one case should not happen and we deal strongly with people who are connected to these networks and this happens. They have the same arrangements in the entrance exam, and this year we can see that there have been good interactions. That is, if they find out that people used cheating patterns, whether they discovered them in the meeting or they realized this based on the response output, they will be dealt with.
* Fars: What did you do to prevent fraud?
We also set up a mechanism in education. In this way, the questions that are given to the fields have a field number, and if a violation is committed, it can be traced. This year, during the Khordad and Shahrivar exams, there have been violations that we have followed up.
* Fars: What has been done with those who cheated?
A student who was unfortunately deceived by these networks has been dealt with. If it is proven that the student is a member of these networks and published exam questions for the networks, all his courses will be considered zero and sometimes he will be denied from the next rounds of exams.
A student who enters this game and falls for this deception will also suffer this fate; We had cases and there have been clashes.
** Students should not engage in cheating
* Fars: What is your advice to the candidates and students of Konkor?
Our recommendation is that students do not enter these games. Don’t be fooled so that these things don’t happen to them, which is really a heavy deal. If a student wants to do this, all his lessons will be zero and his hard work of one year and several years will be damaged. But to say that such incidents will never happen is like the police saying that they deal with crime and promise that no crime will happen in the country.
Our duty is to deal with crime and prevent it; There have been predictions. However, we need security devices to help us. Considering that some volunteers are using new devices to cheat, the signal detector should help to detect these devices anyway; In this regard, the security devices help us so that these devices are available to the exam areas and we can do this.
It means that solving the problem in this field requires a national determination and we request everyone to come to our help. This issue is both in the entrance examination and in the examination. This issue is a national issue, and in my opinion, it should be looked at nationally and all institutions should help so that we can deal with this issue properly.
This concern of other volunteers about cheating is a valid concern; That is, when I put myself in the place of a student who has studied and wants to see the results of his efforts. In this case, if someone hears that someone wants to achieve this kind of work in the wrong way, it is definitely disappointing and has a destructive effect on the students, and it is our duty to be decisive in both prevention and dealing with these people.
We made arrangements to the best of our ability so that these arrangements are seen and as soon as they are discovered, confrontations will take place, but to promise that this will never happen is similar to the police promising people that no one will do anything wrong from now on. It does not.
**Ranks 1 to 10 in this year’s exam, none of them had scored 20 in their courses.
* Fars: We saw cheating in the Shahrivar exams, right?
In almost all the courses where the questions were published during the exam, except for one case whose scope was not clear, we observed the rest of the students and the interactions that I mentioned took place.
* Fars: What is the opinion of education and education about the entrance exam resolution of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution and how much do you think this resolution can reduce the stress, anxiety and entrance exam problems that candidates are facing?
Assessment is the center of education, which means that it determines both teaching methods and students’ learning and study strategies, and when the student’s, teacher’s, and school’s view changes to the final evaluation, it equips itself accordingly.
As long as the evaluation system of students to decide their future is based on entrance exam, test-taking skills and four options, then the student would prepare himself for that environment, and this will be the concern of the school and family, and the work of students, especially in the twelfth grade. It will be for exam preparation and skill testing.
Currently, ranks 1 to 10 in this year’s entrance exam, none of them had scored 20 in their subjects in the final exams, and in some subjects that did not affect their entrance exam, they had scored at the level of an average student. While these people definitely had the ability to do this and if they had taken the time and had a serious look at this issue, they would have achieved success, but because they were looking at the entrance exam and test-taking skills, they were focused on this area. That is, they abandoned their own curriculum and the original content.
So, when the issue is the entrance exam and four options, they focus on the point and detail, and they don’t focus much on the overall content and understanding of this whole, and the basic form of education and training for the entrance exam is the same.
This resolution does not solve the whole issue, but it helps the students to return to the school environment and the contents that have been prepared for them and proceed according to the classroom that is designed based on the curriculum, and also the teacher based on the teaching hours that It is defined for him to teach and this creates a benefit for education. However, I said that this resolution alone does not completely solve the concerns of education.
Therefore, we hope that what has been prepared for the student to acquire these knowledge and skills and reach these attitudes in the course of general education will happen and the student will not only look at the entrance exam.
This is the view of education on the issue, and for this reason, it supports this resolution and firmly defends this issue and seeks to implement it, and we hope that we will be able to implement this resolution effectively.
** The share of Sistan and Baluchistan province in entrance exam is one-third in proportion to the GPA
* Fars: What advice do you have for students to be less worried about the definite effect of GPA in entrance exam?
In education, we seek to resolve the concerns of students and families, and this resolution seeks to reduce additional stress and anxiety from students. Self-examination and evaluation, however, need a low level of anxiety that the student has in order to pay attention to that issue and deal with it.
However, additional stress and anxiety that has a psychological burden on the student and worries that he will miss an opportunity is not good. If the candidate is unable to perform properly on that one day of the entrance examination, his future will be affected, but the academic records are during the academic year and are taken from the student’s own course; The lesson given by the teacher and in any part of the country, the book is the same. The teacher teaches the same lesson, and our evaluation is based on the attitude that teachers across the country convey to designers in the form of a question bank.
Therefore, it helps all students in deprived areas and other areas to be seen, and this question design happens to everyone and reduces this concern from students. On the other hand, a part of the entrance examination problem is solved by the production of academic record and this 40% helps them.
So candidates should look at this issue with this perspective that the effect of GPA is helpful to students and our effort is to be careful both in the design of the questions and in the execution of the tests so that justice is observed and students from deprived areas are seen and they can also receive this share. Even now, in the statistics we have, the share of students from areas deprived of entrance exam is much lower.
For example, the share of Sistan and Baluchistan province in entrance exam is one third in proportion to average. That is, if we consider their contribution to the GPA in the entrance exam, it will be tripled. This shows that we should give hope to the students that with their own efforts they can make more efforts in producing records and reach a grade that will help their work instead of worrying that God forbid it will cause them problems.
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