Prediction 1: The scope of enrollment specialty will be expanded. In this year's strong foundation plan, most colleges and universities only recruit students majoring in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and history, philosophy, ancient philology and other related majors. The major of basic subjects is relatively unpopular, and it is not allowed to change majors during the undergraduate period.
However, if we take a closer look at the notice issued by the Ministry of Education, we will find that the strong foundation plan includes more than these majors:
In the official documents of the Ministry of Education, there is a detailed description of the enrollment major of Qiangji Program, which is the part marked in red. The description of these two parts can be summarized into two meanings:
First, the enrollment specialty of strong foundation plan should pay attention to and meet the development needs of major national strategic new engineering courses;
Two, a clear development of mathematics, science, chemistry and other basic disciplines.
The policy orientation of the strong foundation plan is clear and definite, so with the further promotion of the strong foundation plan, more colleges and universities will incorporate new engineering, intelligent technology and other strategic demand-oriented majors into the strong foundation plan.
Why do you say that?
Strong base tends to be conservative this year.
First of all, this year's enrollment is limited to a few basic disciplines such as mathematics, physics and chemistry, mainly because the strong foundation plan enrolls students for the first time this year, so colleges and universities actually tend to be "conservative" when formulating implementation plans. However, at the policy level, the Ministry of Education does not equate "strong foundation" with "basic disciplines such as mathematics and physics". The framework of strong foundation actually includes new engineering, artificial intelligence technology and other national key areas involving majors.
In this regard, Tsinghua University's plan is a good example: five colleges in Tsinghua University are specially designed and set up for the strong foundation plan, and they enroll students in large categories. If you look at it, each college contains many advantageous disciplines in Tsinghua University.
Excerpted from "Tsinghua University Top 2020 Basic Plan Admissions Guide"
Mathematics, physics, chemistry and other basic disciplines are difficult to reflect all the advantages of colleges and universities.
Secondly, due to the differences in discipline construction and teaching staff between schools, a few basic disciplines, such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, history, philosophy, ancient philology, etc., cannot fully reflect the dominant disciplines of colleges and universities. Therefore, from this perspective, expanding the scope of enrollment is an inevitable trend.
Prediction 2: The threshold of registration, shortlisting and admission will be layered, although the strong foundation plan clearly defines the selection and training target as students who are interested in serving the country's major strategic needs, with excellent comprehensive quality or top-notch basic disciplines. In this year's strong basic enrollment brochure, most colleges and universities require silver medals and gold medals to be shortlisted. However, this threshold will be adjusted and lowered in the future.
The exception above the silver medal does not apply to all colleges and universities.
First of all, judging from the actual situation this year, apart from the resumption of diplomatic relations between Qing and North China, few candidates with silver medals or above apply for other institutions.
Taking 20 19 as an example, the five disciplines competition * * * produced 465 gold medals, 598 silver medals and 523 bronze medals, and 1063 gold medals and silver medals * * *. Excluding 260 people who were removed by the National Committee, 803 places can be qualified as strong bases, of which about 5 163.
Most of the other candidates with strong basic project qualifications have chosen other universities in C9. Therefore, for other colleges and universities, the standard of "silver medal or above" is too high and has no practical significance. And if you consider it from the perspective of students: who doesn't want to apply for a higher-level university?
Therefore, it is not appropriate for colleges and universities to use uniform abnormal standards. Isn't it worthwhile to win a bronze medal or even keep one in the academic competition? Can't these students be regarded as outstanding talents in the subject field? The answer is obviously not.
In addition, in the just-concluded final of the 37th physics competition for middle school students, the number of gold and silver medals was expanded to 120, which can also be regarded as the design of the linkage between the discipline competition and the strong foundation plan, just to let more outstanding candidates with real discipline potential get a smoother upward channel.
Policy reservation and relaxation of standard space
Then, this year, colleges and universities will uniformly take "silver medal and above in discipline competition" as the threshold to break the rules in the strong basic enrollment brochure. Is it a hard rule for the education authorities?
Actually, it's not like this.
Excerpted from Opinions of the Ministry of Education on Developing Foundations in Some Colleges and Universities.
As can be seen from the official documents of the Ministry of Education, there are no hard and fast criteria for being shortlisted, only requirements such as "aiming at a very small number", "highlighting talents and performance" and "the score of the college entrance examination is not lower than one line". If we read this part of the requirements carefully again, we will find that the right to formulate the methods and standards for exceptional shortlisting and exceptional admission lies entirely in colleges and universities.
Therefore, at the policy level, the education authorities actually reserved flexible space for formulating the "exception standard", which laid a theoretical foundation for subsequent schools to appropriately adjust the exception standard according to their own conditions.
The admission rules may be different.
Similar to the logic of hierarchical classification of admission threshold, different admission rules should of course adapt to different admission rules.
For the short-listed candidates based on the results of the college entrance examination, the comprehensive score of "85%+ 15%" will not change in a certain period of time, but obviously it is necessary to focus on the candidates who pass the examination.
According to official documents:
For a very small number of candidates who have outstanding talent and performance in related disciplines, the relevant colleges and universities may formulate exceptional admission conditions and exceptional admission methods and standards, and announce them to the public in advance. After the candidates take part in the unified college entrance examination, the colleges and universities will organize experts from relevant disciplines to strictly examine the candidates. Those who meet the admission criteria will be admitted without exception after being examined and approved by the leading group of college admissions and reported to the provincial college admissions committee where the students are located. In principle, the scores of the college entrance examination for exceptional admission candidates shall not be lower than the minimum control scores of a batch of undergraduate admissions in various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) (the provinces that merge the admission batches shall delimit the corresponding scores separately).
In other words, in theory, colleges and universities can lower the threshold of college entrance examination scores for those who fail the rigorous examination to one line, which is a very big preferential policy for top students.
Prediction 3: The number of students enrolled will be dynamically adjusted. Judging from the enrollment situation of strong bases this year, the enrollment number of strong bases in each school will be dynamically adjusted with great probability in the future, and the top universities headed by Qingbei are likely to greatly increase the enrollment quota.
According to statistics, the total number of freshmen in northern Qing this year is 3,500 and 28 18, respectively, of which 939 and 842 are enrolled in Qiangji plan, accounting for 26.8% and 29.9% respectively.
Combined with the news that Tsinghua stopped recruiting journalism and accounting undergraduates through the college entrance examination this year, we can find important signals about the future of the strong foundation plan:
This year, Tsinghua University stopped recruiting journalism and accounting majors from the unified examination, and all related majors in the Humanities College were transferred to the Strong Foundation Program. In the future, all liberal arts majors in Tsinghua will stop the national college entrance examination, and all will be selected and trained by the Strong Foundation Program.
At the same time, in order to supply one-third of the enrollment places for the Strong Foundation Program, the enrollment places of other majors will also be compressed to varying degrees. In other words, the future strong foundation plan will become the main way to enter the top universities.
I believe that other colleges and universities will take the Tsinghua model as the blueprint in the future, and invest more places in the strong foundation plan through resource integration and the change of enrollment model.
Prediction 4: A brand-new training mode will run through the Strong Foundation Plan. In addition to the brand-new enrollment and selection scheme, Qiangji Plan also attaches great importance to the innovation of talent training mode. A series of measures, such as tutorial system, small class size, promotion without examination and direct training, are all active explorations of brand-new talent training mode, which avoids the blindness of candidates' choice of majors, reduces the pressure and enhances their willingness to apply for the exam.