Quality education refers to an educational model aimed at improving the quality of the educated in all aspects. It attaches importance to people's ideological and moral quality, ability training, personality development, physical health and mental health education. Quality education and exam-oriented education are corresponding, but they are not absolutely opposite concepts, because they are not antonyms in meaning.

Examination-oriented education refers to the educational ideas and methods that are divorced from the needs of social development and violate the laws of natural development, with the aim of coping with the entrance examination.

Examination-oriented education deviates from quality education and adopts mechanized education to train students. It tests the quality of school education, teachers' work performance and students' academic level by the enrollment rate. It aims at examination, and its educational mode and examination method limit the development of students' ability, which makes it difficult for students to adapt to the requirements of work and social development. Examination-oriented education is divorced from the needs of social development, violates the laws of natural development, and aims at coping with the entrance examination. Schools, society and parents adopt a single evaluation method for students, taking "getting good grades" as the only requirement, and measuring students' level by scores through exams.