Since the reform and opening up, China's economy has developed rapidly and education has made great progress. However, like most other developing countries, China still faces some problems in education: its culture is relatively backward, its educational foundation is relatively weak, and its economy is underdeveloped, which leads to a serious contradiction between the urgent demand for talents in social development and the lack of high-quality talents.

Therefore, more and more people begin to pay attention to education, and further education has become the established path for many people to become talents. However, students simply pursue further studies, schools unilaterally pursue the rate of enrollment, and society evaluates the quality of schools by the rate of enrollment. Such a series of cognition of educational mistakes has led to the emergence of the educational tendency of "exam-oriented education".

So what is exam-oriented education? Exam-oriented education, also known as cramming education, refers to an objective tendency that deviates from the actual needs of educated groups and social development in China's educational practice, just to cope with exams, pursue high scores and unilaterally pursue the enrollment rate. Many people think that "exam-oriented education" is not a summary of previous and present basic education, but a summary of many disadvantages caused by simply pursuing further studies.

Judging from the laws of education and personnel training, people have some misunderstandings about exam-oriented education. Ignore the cultivation of most students. The objective reality determines that only a few people can pass the exam and enter the university. This one-sided emphasis and pursuit of enrollment rate will inevitably sacrifice the interests of the majority, thus making basic education a minority education.

Moreover, exam-oriented education only attaches importance to knowledge transmission and ignores the cultivation of ability and psychological quality, which is not all-round development. Examination-oriented learning is against the law of talent training.

But everything has advantages and disadvantages, and exam-oriented education is also beneficial.

Although there are many disadvantages in exam-oriented education, it is the fairest way to select candidates according to their achievements. This is also the reason why China has implemented exam-oriented education for many years. Effectively prevent cheating, taking relationships, going through the back door and other unhealthy trends. In addition, China has a large population, fierce competition and numerous educational institutions. As a public place, schools need a system to maintain the overall order.

If there is no exam-oriented education, students in China will be addicted to all kinds of movies and games.