Exam-oriented education is an educational model centered on coping with exams. It overemphasizes the enrollment rate, but ignores the all-round development of people and the real needs of society. This educational model limits students' potential and makes it difficult for them to adapt to future work and social changes. This paper will deeply discuss the problems existing in exam-oriented education and the reasons behind them.

Basic education with abnormal development

Basic education under exam-oriented education often develops abnormally, which leads to the low comprehensive quality of students accepted by higher education. The main features include neglecting ideological and political education, not paying attention to cultivating non-intellectual factors, such as personality quality and spiritual quality, and pursuing the rate of enrollment too much.

a shortage of capital

The shortage of funds is an important factor in the backwardness of exam-oriented education. In China, the investment in primary and secondary education is relatively small, which makes the distribution of educational resources uneven. This leads to the backwardness of education mode and limits the all-round development of students.

Employment difficulties

In the face of the current severe employment situation, quality education under the examination-oriented education model will easily aggravate unfairness if there is no perfect supervision mechanism. In the current social environment, the college entrance examination is still the fairest measure.