Quality education and exam-oriented education are two different educational concepts, which are essentially different in guiding ideology, educational purpose, educational object, educational content, curriculum structure, teaching methods and evaluation standards. This paper will discuss the differences between quality education and exam-oriented education in order to help readers better understand the concepts and characteristics of these two kinds of education.

Different educational purposes

Examination-oriented education is mainly to meet the needs of higher-level school selection, while quality education is to cultivate people's basic ability and improve people's quality in an all-round way.

Different educational objects

Quality education respects students' personality and emphasizes students' dominant position in the education process, while exam-oriented education emphasizes sameness, and students can only passively accept the "shaping" of teachers.

Different educational contents

Examination-oriented education pays attention to intellectual education, which is often divorced from the reality of life, while quality education pays attention to the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor, which is closely related to the reality of life.

Different curriculum structures

Examination-oriented education focuses on a single subject course, emphasizing the main course and ignoring the minor courses, while quality education covers various forms of courses, including compulsory, elective, activity, explicit and invisible courses.

Different teaching methods

Exam-oriented education often adopts rote memorization and mechanical repetition, while quality education pays more attention to heuristic and inquiry teaching and encourages students to learn actively.

Different evaluation criteria

Examination-oriented education mainly depends on examination results, and quality education adopts developmental evaluation.