Is the 2023 Shanghai College Entrance Examination Mathematics Difficult? Zhihu

The difficulty of the 2023 Shanghai College Entrance Examination mathematics test questions is moderate. After completing the mathematics test, Shanghai candidates said that the difficulty of this year's Shanghai College Entrance Examination mathematics test questions was not bad and the difficulty was within the acceptable range.

The difficulty of the mathematics test is one of the hot topics in the college entrance examination every year. People are used to comparing different versions and test papers of different years together. However, in the end, some people still think it is too difficult, while others think it is very easy. The performance of mathematics scores in the college entrance examination determines the quality of admission to the college entrance examination to a large extent.

Judging from the feedback on the difficulty of the 2023 College Entrance Examination Chinese test, many candidates and parents believe that mathematics is not expected to be too difficult. It is likely that the difficulty has been lowered because candidates have not studied enough in recent years. Easy, many students do not have a solid foundation, and in the context of quality education, the possibility of odd questions appearing is very small.

Objectively speaking, judging from comprehensive feedback from multiple parties, the difficulty of National Mathematics Paper B in 2023 has dropped slightly compared with last year, but this so-called drop will not be obvious to candidates because the college entrance examination Mathematics questions are innovative to a certain extent.

On the one hand, there have been changes in the question makers. The thinking of the question makers directly determines the difficulty level of the test questions and the solution ideas. Those candidates who can adapt can get good results in the exam, and those who cannot adapt will get good results. Not even close.

On the other hand, the college entrance examination mathematics questions have a certain exploratory nature, which is used to guide mathematics teaching and provide possibilities for the selection and training of innovative talents. It is necessary to comprehensively examine mathematical abstraction, logical recommendation, and construction. It is the general trend to focus on the core competencies of modeling, computing and data analysis and to highlight rational thinking.

This is why there is now an emphasis on the connection between college admissions and high school teaching. Many well-known high schools have begun to carry out seamless connection work with top universities in talent training. The orientation of college entrance examination questions is not unrelated to this.

Therefore, the subject of mathematics must be paid attention to from an early age. Instead of pursuing problem-solving skills, we must pay attention to the cultivation of mathematical thinking. Only when thinking is well cultivated can we cope with the innovative requirements of future college entrance examination mathematics questions.