Will extra points for Olympiad sports students become a thing of the past?

On March 21, the Ministry of Education published the "Notice on Carrying out the Enrollment of General Colleges and Universities in 2018" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice") online, making comprehensive arrangements for the admissions work of general colleges and universities this year. The "Notice" clarified that five national college entrance examination bonus points items, including sports talents, middle school student subject Olympiads, science and technology competitions, provincial outstanding students, and outstanding ideological and political achievements, have been completely cancelled.

The "Notice" requires the development of quality education, promotion of educational fairness, scientific selection of talents, and ensuring that college entrance examinations are fair, just, standardized and orderly. The "Notice" clarified six key tasks for the admissions work of general colleges and universities in 2018. Among them, the most concerned thing is to actively and steadily promote the reform of college entrance examination and enrollment. The task is clear, actively promote the implementation of special reforms such as high school academic proficiency examination and comprehensive quality evaluation, and further promote the reform of reducing admission batches and classified recruitment for higher vocational colleges.

The "Notice" pointed out that according to the "Implementation Opinions of the State Council on Deepening the Reform of the Examination and Enrollment System" and the "Ministry of Education, State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Ministry of Public Security, State General Administration of Sports, China Science and Technology Association's adjustment of some college entrance examination bonus points and further According to the relevant provisions of the "Notice on Strengthening Management Work", national college entrance examination bonus points items such as sports talents, middle school students' subject Olympiads, science and technology competitions, provincial outstanding students, and outstanding ideological and political achievements have been completely cancelled.

At the same time, the "Notice" also makes relevant requirements for "College Entrance Examination Immigration", emphasizing the further implementation and improvement of the policy for migrant children to take the College Entrance Examination in the place of destination, and strengthening the comprehensive management of "College Entrance Examination Immigration" in accordance with laws and regulations. Governance. In order to further promote equal access opportunities in urban and rural areas, the "Notice" also requires the continued implementation of the "National Support Enrollment Collaboration Plan for Central and Western Regions" to further increase the college entrance examination admission rate in central and western regions and populous provinces.

Other key tasks also include: further strictly standardizing the management of enrollment work, intensifying efforts to deal with enrollment violations, and canceling candidates who commit fraud in various types of enrollment, in addition to canceling their corresponding type of enrollment qualifications, and also canceling their college entrance examination for that year. Registration, examination and admission qualifications; ensure the safety and stability of the college entrance examination, focus on carrying out special actions to comprehensively manage the examination environment, strengthen supervision of the entire process of test paper circulation, and ensure the absolute safety of test questions and papers.