The main characteristics of exam-oriented education are: taking the entrance examination as the main goal, focusing on the teaching of "hardware", repeatedly teaching the content to be tested as the main means, finding a way out from squeezing time and expanding "exercise", taking repeated indoctrination as the method, determining the quality by examination results and rewarding it with "quality". According to the implementation of this management method and teaching system, although students are very bitter, the enrollment rate may temporarily rise. This short-term teaching behavior is fed back to society, parents and students, which strengthens this management mode and teaching system. As a result, many schools walk along this slope with peace of mind, forming a vicious circle.
This educational system is popular in East Asia, such as Chinese mainland, Hongkong, China, Taiwan Province Province, China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore in Southeast Asia.
Opponents believe that the disadvantages of exam-oriented education in China are increasingly obvious because it pays more attention to the recitation and indoctrination of knowledge and key points, and generally ignores the cultivation of students' comprehensive ability in the education process. Therefore, it is regarded by some people as an educational model with low learning efficiency, and it is rated as cramming education, which is rote learning.
However, exam-oriented education has achieved good results in Hongkong, China, Chinese mainland, China, Taiwan Province Province, China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. In fact, the development of these regions and countries also benefits from the cultivation of students' ability by exam-oriented education. This kind of exam-oriented education is actually extreme, that is, it requires students to develop in an all-round way and measure all students with test scores. This form has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that students can receive all education, but the disadvantage is that they ignore their own specialties and take up a lot of energy.